Weapons of the lower layer of the Suren II site in the Crimea
Journal: Camera praehistorica
Year: 2025

A new study of the collections from the Suren II site, housed in the Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography of the Russian Academy of Sciences (the Kunstkamera), has shown that the lithic industry of the lower layer of this site consists of two components. The first component has direct analogies at the sites in the focal territory of Sviderian culture. The most typical artifacts are numerous willow-leaf shaped arrowheads with flat ventral retouch. The second component is associa