Kostenki 17 retouched bladelet Kostenki 6 Streletskian point Kostenki 17 tooth pendant Kostenki 17 pendant Kostenki 17 endscraper Kostenki 17 core Kostenki 17 bladelet core Kostenki 17 bladelet core 2 Kostenki 17 blade Kostenki 14 etched bone Kostenki 14 bladelet core Kostenki 13 shouldered point Kostenki 12 scraper Kostenki 12 retouched blade Kostenki 12 burin on truncation Kostenki 12 bladelet core Kostenki 12 biface Kostenki 12 biface fragment Kostenki 12 Streletskian point Kostenki 1 bladelet core Kostenki 1 Streletskian point

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Kostënki 1 has a long history of excavation through the 19th, 20th and 21st centuries. P.P. Efimenko’s campaigns during the 1920s and 30s unearthed the famous Kostënki-Avdeevo Culture Layer I, as well as a evidence for older archaeological layers. A.N. Rogachev excavated the site periodically from 1938 until 1976, and in 1948 recognised for the first time five archaeological layers. Later excavations by N.D. Praslov (1978-1994) focused mainly on Layer I, while those of M.V. Anikovich (2004-2012) focused instead on the site’s lower layers.

This Streletskian point was found during Praslov’s excavations. The artefact is recorded as coming from Layer I, but matches several examples found by Rogachev in his Layer V. There is therefore a degree of uncertainty about precisely how old the artefact is.

(Artefact housed at the Institute for the History of Material Culture [Palaeolithic Division], Saint Petersburg.)