Eneolithic stone products from the Koksharovsky hill sanctuary (Middle Trans-Urals)

Koksharovsky Hill on the shore of Yurinskoie Lake is well known for its Neolithic complex. Mesolithic stone products and Eneolithic ceramics are widely represented on the hill. Ceramics of the Bronze Age and the Early Middle Ages are rarely found. The author of the excavations attributed more than a thousand fragments of ceramics from at least 150 vessels to the Eneolithic. The article presents stone products from the Eneolithic. When selecting them, the author took into account the typology of tools, the technique of their manufacture, including the use of a copper awl for retouching, and mineral raw materials. Marking products of the Eneolithic era are arrowheads, well-known from the materials from single-layer sites of the Trans-Urals. The plates that are distinguished by regular cutting and made from mineral raw materials atypical for the Neolithic, are also attributed to the Eneolithic. Such raw materials were most often multicolored jaspers: cream, light red, spotted, beige, as well as gray quartzite and white siliceous rock. Such raw materials are well known in the materials of the Lipchinskaya and Shapkulskaya cultures of the Trans-Urals Eneolithic. On the territory of the Tagil Trans-Urals, ceramics of the Shapkulsky type are unknown, while ceramics of the Lipchinsky type are constantly present in the Eneolithic complexes of the Middle Trans-Urals.