Manko, N. V. NEW CHALCOLITHIC FLINT WORKSHOPS WITH A LARGE BLADE COMPONENT IN NORTHWESTERN DONBASS. Proceedings of Petrozavodsk State University. 2025;47(2):8–17. DOI: 10.15393/uchz.art.2025.1140


Archeology

NEW CHALCOLITHIC FLINT WORKSHOPS WITH A LARGE BLADE COMPONENT IN NORTHWESTERN DONBASS

Manko
N. V. 		Donetsk State University
Keywords:
Donbass
Early Eneolithic
flint workshops
large blade component
bifaces
Srednestogovskaya culture		 Summary: In the Late Stone Age, Donbass was formed as one of the largest centers of ancient mining in Eastern Europe. Today, the largest concentration of flint mining and flintworking sites has been identified in the Northwestern Donbas region, but the archaeological material collected here is still not fully reflected in modern scientific literature. The purpose of this publication is to introduce into scientific circulation materials from the locations of Malinovka village and Pustosh pond, thereby completing the map of archaeological sites of the Donetsk People’s Republic. Both sites are localized in the coastal zone of the watershed of the Belenkaya River and are accompanied by numerous flint outcrops accessible for direct collection of raw materials on the surface. Using the method of technical and typological analysis, archaeological collections were studied, consisting of a series of flint products in the form of blade cores, byproducts of their cleavage, and preforms of bifaces, as well as single fragments of ceramics, which made it possible to establish the nature of local sites. They make up a complex consisting of a habitation settlement and several manufacturing areas – flint workshops related to the primary processing of flint, as well as producing certain types of tools. Using the method of comparative analysis, similarities were also revealed with the products found in the territory of the neighboring specialized workshop-settlement Vasilyevskaya Pustosh and some Eneolithic workshops of the Krasnyansky mining and flint-processing complex. The findings suggest the Early Neolithic dating of the workshops, as well as their possible belonging to the sites of the steppe variant of the Srednestogovskaya culture.



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