The Find of a Bone Needle Case With Bone Needles at the Neolithic Site of Vladimirovka III (Central Yakutia): Issues of Analogies and the Phenomenon of Persistence in Cultural Development
This article describes the Neolithic site Vladimirovka III («Shaman Mountain»), located in Central Yakutia, where a bone needle case with two bone needles was found. The description of this archaeological site and conditions of finding the abovementioned artifacts is provided; analogies are analyzed, for which purpose all recent publications on the needle cases and needles found at archaeological sites in Yakutia and neighboring areas of North and Northeast Asia have been used. Variants of using needle cases, and methods of manufacturing sewing threads, taken from ethnology and archeology are considered. We propose the term «persistence» to explain the phenomenon of preserving the traditions of manufactuing and using, of stability and immutability of certain inventory forms invented by the Stone Age man.