Weapons from the Upper Mesolithic Layer of Alimovskiy Rockshelter in the Crimea
Journal: Stratum plus Archaeology and Cultural Anthropology
Year: 2024

The article presents weapons from the upper Mesolithic layer of the Alimovskiy rockshelter excavated by A. D. Stolyar in 1955. The collection is kept in the State Hermitage museum. The trench excavated in 2022 by M. G. Zhilin confirmed the stratigraphy exposed in the eastern part of the 1955 trench and enriched the archaeological collection. The site contains four Mesolithic layers dated to the Early, Middle, Late and Final Mesolithic. About one hundred trapezes and several segments were found i