title: A Systematic Outline for the Osseous Industries in the North Pontic Palaeometallic Age
abstract: The paper surveys current trends in systematizing bone and antler industries dated back to the 5th-1st millennia BC in the North Pontic area. The principles in question, however, seem to be adaptable to any of the many bone and antler contents of the Earth's archaeosphere. The reader is introduced to the classificatory concept of the author's own work which has never been explicated in full elsewhere. Usually, the North Pontic archaeologists definitely wish their archaeological record to be impo
journal: Journal of Historical Archaeology & Anthropological Sciences