Tools on the Plates from the Pavlovka-I Settlement (Southern Western Siberia)

The purpose of the publication is to introduce into scientifi c circulation a collection of stone tools on plates found at the settlement of Pavlovka-I (Uglovsky district of the Altai Territory).The collection of stone artifacts kept at the Altai State University has 8851 items. The tools on the plates are 1244 pieces. Th is is the most representative category in the tool kit of the studied collection.A feature of the stone industry of Pavlovka-I is a representative series of geometric microliths and plates with an asymmetric end notch. In the composition of the stone industries of the settlement complexes of the Neolithic and Eneolithic of Altai, such artifacts are represented by single specimens and do not constitute any statistically signifi cant series.The paper concludes that the main array of stone artifacts of the Pavlovka-I settlement belongs to the early Neolithic.