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Tool kits of stone age flint implements as a phenomenom of individuality (on question formulation)

Kolesnik A.V.

Donetsk State University, Donetsk

Kolesnik Alexander, Dr. habil., e-mail: akolesnik2007@mail.ru

Abstract

The paper analyzes the phenomenon of the existence of personal property and individual items of paleolithic people. The article analyzes one of the categories of archaeological equipment – knapsack sets of flint tools. Usually portable sets consist of a number of flint tools and inserts without signs of use. Often, the plates are stored technological communication. The number of items in the knapsack varies from several units to several tens. The tools were placed in a small container, probably leather bags. The composition and value of the knapsack sets were different. We believe that this set was the property of a particular person and it could make different complex actions. Sets donated as gifts otherworldly forces, was placed in the grave. The most common personal «hoard» a variety of property values. These small «hoard» systematically find researchers, starting with the Upper Paleolithic. The tradition of keeping «hoard-offerings» remained unchanged till Early Iron Age. In all cases, we see the manifestation of individuality. In the daily life of paleolithic people individual knapsack sets of flint tools used in various procedures. A set of tools was not associated with any particular industry. Probably a personal «bag of tools» had a high semiotic status. In famous Mariupol necropolis there was identified a series of individual tool kits of flint implements. They originate from burials of men and women. Knapsack sets of «hoard» and neolithic burials – one of the first striking examples of the existence of personal property from people of paleolithic age, allowing you to see the first manifestation of subjectivity and individuality.

Keywords

archeology, Paleolithic age, toll kits of flint implements, private property, individuality

Цит.: Kolesnik A.V. Tool kits of stone age flint implements as a phenomenom of individuality (on question formulation) // Moscow University Anthropology Bulletin (Vestnik Moskovskogo Universiteta. Seria XXIII. Antropologia), 2016; 2/2016; с. 121-127