Items of the non-utilitarian purpose in the collection of the upper Paleolitic Malaya Syya-site (technological aspects)

Purpose: Adjust the technological characteristics of the production of articles of items of the non-utilitarian purpose in the Upper Paleolithic of the Siberia Results: Malaya Syya-site is in the eastern foothills of Kuznetsk Ala-Tau on the left side of the river Belyie Yus, on the south side of the village of Malaya Syya (center point of the site - 54°24'1.96" N, 89°26'34.64" E). An object is an important element of the archaeological district, including open archaeological site and cave complexes, which is found archaeological materials and paleofaunistic collections with dating a wide chronological range - from the Paleolithic to the Ethnographic time. The site has been studied since 1973 in format as exploration and steady-state methods of archaeological excavations. The materials collection 1975-1980 we isolated few objects made of soft stone (serpentine and it`s variants), of particular interest in terms of their production technology. As a result of our research highlighted the stages of preparation, shaping, decorating and drilling products, which allows us to characterize subjects as products having a special status in the culture. Use-wave analysis revealed no traces of utilization, we mean that products are functionally used as pendants. Presented a collection of items, materials originating from different years of excavation and confined to different layers according V. E. Larichev demonstrate fairly stable production chain: selection of raw material, testing, primary morphogenesis (flattening), secondary formation (giving product geometric shapes), two main ornamentation but technologically close options, the final stage of manufacture of the subject - drilling. The number of functional types of stone tools is limited to three types (knives, burins, primitive subjects of drilling, not more 180°). It should be noted a very unusual method of forming a relatively flat spots in many of the examined artifacts collection. Instead planer knife or quite logical for abrasive grinding - used burin. Its effectiveness in this work is extremely low. Conclusion: Described collection from Malaya Syya-site have unique organization ornamental composition and stable geometric shapes (circle, diamond/square, triangle) have a direct analogy with the «pendants» with notches along the outer edge in the collections of Siberian and European Paleolithic site (as Gerasimova, Kosouthy, Molodovo V, Mitok-Malul Galben, Poyana). Technological aspect of the study of these materials adds a new momentum in the research process of the collection Malaya Syya-site may indirectly affect the determination of cultural and chronological position in the scheme of the whole complex organization of the Upper Paleolithic Siberia.