THE BARMAKY, LEVEL 2 EPIGRAVETTIAN ASSEMBLAGE: THE CORE REDUCTION STRATEGIES

The Barmaky cultural deposits accumulated under the harsh climatic conditions of the periglacial zone at about 19 kyr cal BP. It is difficult to overestimate the meaning of lithic raw material supply as a component of the technological organization of mobility patterns of hunter-gatherer groups. The applied core reduction strategies are an integral part of the technological chain of raw material management. The two discrete core reduction strategies were defined for the flint assemblage of Barmaky, level 2: blade and bladelet / micro-blade. The former is based on the reduction of the sub-, cylindrical and narrow flaking surface cores; the latter is based on the exploitation of the narrow flaking surface cores. The blade cores were the source of lamellar products for the «domestic» toolkit; the bladelet / micro-blade cores reduction aimed at the insets for distant weapons.