Technological especially manufacturing beads of final Paleolitic Maltat-site (Derbina archaeological area, Krasnoyarsk reservoir)

Purpose: Adjust the technological characteristics of the pro duction of articles of personal ornamentation in the final of Paleolithic of Middle Siberia. Results: The location of the Stone Age in the Gulf Derbina studied from 1993 units IAE SB RAS and Krasnoyarsk Peda gogical University under the direction of E. Akimovа and I. Stasiuk. There are more than 30 localities of Late Paleolithic, excavated 9 sites. In the study of the cultural layer was ob tained Maltat-site a lot of stone beads. In the present article examines the processing technology of soft stone materials, shaping and manufacturing items of personal ornamentation (beads), constituting a specific collection of this archaeological site (10-11 th years BP). Finds in the debris layer of the same breed, including polished, billet beads confirms that making items directly at the site. Considered in this paper collection of the cultural layer Maltat-site is of particular interest in terms of choice of raw material, initial processing, procurement and production of individual products, with special status in the cultural context. In conjunction with the data and technical and typological and use-wear analyzes the collection was not pro vided earlier, and the novelty of this work is the complete characterization of the process of manufacturing items of per sonal ornamentation, characterizing, including cultural identity and the phenomenon under study. Finds similar products (flat round or quadrate beads of ornamental stone with traces of polishing) in the quite common in Siberia final Paleolithic sites (Afontova Gora-3, Ui-2, Kokorevo-6, Novoselovo-13 within the Yenisei Siberia; Verkholenskaya Gora, Krasnyi Yar in the An- gara-zone; Oshurkovo, Ust’-Menza, Studyenoe in Transbaikalia; Ushki-1 in Kamchatka, etc.). Conclusion: Based on our analysis, we can say that the manufacture studied artifacts collection used the following set of basic process: using of coarse and fine-grained abrasives, speed drilling, beading. Working with products took place in three stages: flattening the original form of raw materials with the two opposing sides of the coarse abrasive; formation at probably the same abrasive article in the circular contour of the plan; bilateral drilling and beading edges of holes. Com pleted all the work polishing. Perhaps that was not a random sample and ornamented with beads butt. Job of producing beads collection can be described as relatively high quality. It used at least fairly effective tools, with steady technological standard.