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 13 is a single-layered site excavated by A.N. Rogachev in several phases from the 1950s to the 1970s. The site is typical of the ‘Kostënki-Avdeevo Culture’, with characteristic habitation and storage pits as well as diagnostic artefacts such as shouldered points and Kostënki knives. Kostënki 13 is positioned between the other Kostënki-Avdeevo Culture sites of Kostënki 1 and Kostënki 18 – two sites that we have studied in the course of our research.

This shouldered point from Kostënki 13 is particularly large – in most cases they are much smaller, sometimes only half the size of this one. They would have been hafted to a shaft or handle. Stone tools such as this are commonly thought to have served multiple functions, but it seems likely that their primary function was as a knife.

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