THE EARLY TRYPILLIAN SETTLEMENT OF MOHYLNA V AND SOME ISSUES OF RESEARCH ON THE AENEOLITHIC FLINTKNAPPING

Abstract

Summary The paper presents new data on the long-debated issue of Early Trypil lian flint-knapping industry interpretation. The data were obtained during the field-work of 2017-2018 in the site of Mohylna V that was discovered by O.S. Peresunchak in 1998. The settlement is situated in the Central Ukraine, some 200 km to the north of Odessa (Kirovohrad region, Haivoron district, Zhakchik village council), on the long, gently sloping promontory between the river Mohylianka and its unnamed tributary. It is located between two previ ously known sites of Mohylna III and Mohylna II discovered by M.S. Gasiuk in early 1950-ies and it is the fifth Early Trypillian settlement along the 4-km stretch of the Mohylianka river. were tool The Early Trypillia flintknapping peculiarities have been explained in dif ferent ways. The author presented the social interpretation: Early Trypillian industry of flint was developed by autonomous flint-knappers satisfying the needs of their own household. Similar flint approaches (modus 1) were used later in the Middle Trypillia alongside with flint-knapping organized on the level of the community and supracommunal level (modus 2).