title: On the issue of the Upper Palaeolithic Bone Tubes
abstract: We discuss the issues of studying and interpreting hollow tubular bone items widely represented at the Upper Palaeolithic sites of Eurasia taking into account the available information from scientific literature in Russian, English and French. To designate such artefacts, English and French researchers use the functionally neutral term “tube”. The research results allow us to conclude that the category of “tubes” represent a large morphological group of various purpose products. The general morp
journal: Problems of Archaeology Ethnography Anthropology of Siberia and Neighboring Territories