STONE TOOLS OF TODA-1 NEOLITHIC CAVE (Based on resources of excavation in 2017-2018)

Аннотация

The article is devoted to the technical-typological classification of stone tool found in the Neolithic cave Toda-1 in the Bajsunsky foothills of southern Uzbekistan. Although the Neolithic stone tools of Toda-1 are few in number, they can be divided into 11 different types. They are mainly made of plates and flakes. In some cases, stone slabs or natural fragments were also used in the manufacture of weapons. The stone tools in the set include atypical scrapers, cutters, retouched blandes, retouched blandclest, retouched microblates, stone axes, geometric tool, stone chisels, knives, composite tool and retouched flakes. In the Toda-1 area, flakes were mainly used to make cutters, scrapers, and retouched items, while most of the blandes were used to make engraved and finely retouched micro weapons.