New Finds of Flint Plastic Art in The Mountainous-Forest Trans-Urals

Abstract

The paper introduces two flint figurines into scientific discourse, they were found during excavations of the multilayer Shaitanskoye 4-6 site in the Sverdlovsk region. Analysis of the contexts and analogies helps attribute these figurines to the Ayat culture of the Eneolithic with a high degree of certainty and consider them to be an evidence of symbolic activities of the local population in IV-III mill. BC. © 2021 Russian Academy of Sciences, Institute of Archaeology. All rights reserved.