Bone arrowheads in the late Mesolithic in the Upper Volga region

The Late Mesolithic peat-bog short-term camps in the Upper Volga Regionhave produced a variety of arrowheads made of stone, bone and antler. Arrowheads intendedfor hunting big mammals are numerous, diverse and the most perfect technologically, whichimplies that big animals, first of all, the elk, were an important element in the economicsurvival system of the populations that used such camps. Various thrusting and cut-and-thrust arrowheads were used to hunt big animals. Small thrusting notched arrowheadswere used to catch fish, while massive blunt arrowheads were used to hunt fur animalsand upland fowl. The diversity of arrowheads made of bone and antler allowed ancientpopulations to successfully hunt various animals, birds, fish, whose bones are found ingreat quantities at such camps