The Hoard of Flint Products at the Chelmuzhskaya Kosa XII Site on the North-Eastern Coast of Lake Onega: Technological and Morphological Aspect

The article publishes the results of a study of a unique accumulation (treasure) of flint products in the settlement of Chelmuzhskaya Kosa XII. The technical and morphological analysis of the objects from the treasure revealed its similarity to a number of other collections of flint artifacts discovered in the North-West of Russia. It was not possible to identify any signs of silicon entering the territory of Karelia in the form of raw materials (in the form of accumulations (warehouses) of nodules, nodules, plates in settlements). A limit has been set (up to 300 km) to which, as a result of an exchange or, possibly, special trips, similar groups of products were moved in territories where there are no flint outlets. The treasure under consideration is the quintessence of sets of flint products, mainly semi-finished products and occasionally a small number of finished tools, which in the Neolithic and Eneolithic were formed by ancient people at the sites of stone deposits and transported further to the territory of Eastern Fennoscandia.