Bone and horn harpoons from the settlement-site of Razdorskoye-I
This paper is a publication of some results of excavations of the multi-stratified site of Razdorskoye-I in the Ust-Donetsk District of Rostov Oblast. These investigations have supplemented the examples of indented bone and horn points found earlier at this settlement-site with another example of a rotating harpoon of the Mariupol period. The finds from Razdorskoye-I are here considered against a rather broad comparative background enabling us to trace certain regularities in the use of such means of individual fish-hunting as fish-spear or harpoon by ancient man. So far, we can just hypothetically talk about the evolution of this type of artefacts and about the extent to which the cultural specifics of the region’s population is in it reflected.