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 17 is among the most important archaeological sites for understanding the very first modern humans in Eastern Europe. Primarily excavated by P.I. Boriskovskii in 1953 and 1955, the site’s lower layer contained a rich archaeological assemblage of worked flint and bone, pendants and animal bones.

The main stone-working activity at Kostënki 17 was apparently the creation of bladelets from burin-cores. However, a few tools suggest that other tasks were undertaken, including this endscraper made from a large blade. Scrapers similar to this are typical of many different Upper Palaeolithic assemblages. They would have been useful for, among other things, processing animal hides.

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