Flint arrowheads from the Mesolithic and Neolithic sites in the Berezina and Dnieper interfluve region

The paper publishes new data on one of the groups of hunting weapons used for providing general characterization of the culture such as arrowheads from the occupation layers at the Mesolithic and Neolithic settlements in Southeastern Belorussia (the Berezina and Dnieper interfluve). The most impressive series of the arrowheads were retrieved during the excavations at Komarin 5, Prorva 2, Prorva 4 (near the town of Rogachev), in the Borok Seminovsky, Dedkov Borok areas (near the village of Luchin) of the Rogachev district, Gomel region, and near the village of Nizhnyaya Olba (the Lukoshinitsa area) in the mouth of the Berezina (the Dnieper tributary) four kilometers north of the confluence of the Berezina and the Dnieper. The most difficult issue identified for this area in the Upper Dnieper region under study is fragmentation of concepts concerning the range and the set of flint weapons, which makes it difficult to identify continuity of Mesolithic flint industry traditions in the early Neolithic. Regarding the sites of the early period of the Dnieper-Donets culture (or the Dnieper-Donets community as this culture is now termed), the type-lists of tools used in culture characterization are represented by small series or singular specimens.