@article{fc9cf29b994e4990be1c78af700f9e30,
title = "Evidence for kill-butchery events of early Upper Paleolithic age at Kostenki, Russia",
abstract = "At least 10 early Upper Paleolithic (EUP) open-air sites are found at Kostenki on the west bank of the Don River in Russia. During the 1950s, A.N. Rogachev excavated concentrations of horse bones and teeth from EUP layers at Kostenki 14 and 15 exhibiting the characteristics of kill-butchery assemblages. Excavations at Kostenki 12 in 2002-2003 uncovered a large quantity of reindeer and horse bones in EUP Layer III that also might be related to kill-butchery events, and the partial skeleton of a sub-adult mammoth excavated during 2004-2007 in EUP Layer V at Kostenki 1 yields traces of butchery. The character of these large mammal assemblages - combined with the analysis of artifacts and features - suggests that both habitation areas and kill-butchery locations are represented in a {"}EUP landscape{"} at Kostenki.",
keywords = "Early upper Paleolithic, Eastern Europe, Kill-butchery sites, Zooarchaeology",
author = "Hoffecker, {John F.} and Kuz'mina, {I. E.} and Syromyatnikova, {E. V.} and Anikovich, {M. V.} and Sinitsyn, {A. A.} and Popov, {V. V.} and Holliday, {Vance T.}",
note = "Funding Information: The authors are grateful to G. F. Baryshnikov and M. V. Sablin (Zoological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences) who provided access to the K 15 and K 14-II collections, and S. Holen (Denver Museum of Nature and Science) who made the mammoth remains from the Dent site (Colorado) available for study. The senior author is especially grateful to C. V. Haynes, who provided a tour of the “Clovis landscape” in the San Pedro Valley (Arizona) in March 2009. The following individuals provided helpful comments on earlier drafts of the paper: C. Cameron, C. M. Darwent, F. Eddy, A. Joyce, R. G. Klein, J. J. Saunders, P. Sheets, T. E. Steele, P. Villa, and five anonymous reviewers for the Journal of Archaeological Science . Supported by NSF grants BCS-0132553, BCS-0442164, and BCS-0715519; Leakey Foundation 2001, 2004, and 2007 general grants (administered by the Illinois State Museum); National Geographic Society scientific research grant 8528-08; and multiple grants from the Russian Foundation for Basic Research.",
year = "2010",
month = may,
doi = "10.1016/j.jas.2009.12.008",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "37",
pages = "1073--1089",
journal = "Journal of Archaeological Science",
issn = "0305-4403",
publisher = "Academic Press Inc.",
number = "5",
}