This article introduces into scientific discourse a set of stone artifacts obtained during the 2020 and 2022 excavations at the Voznesenskoye I settlement. This site, located nearby Lake Galichskoye (Upper Volga basin), represents a multi-period settlement. The settlement area was initially occupied during the Mesolithic period. Subsequently, the territory was inhabited by bearers of Fatyanoid (or Fatyanovo-like) cultural traditions. In the late Bronze Age, a population producing net-impressed pottery appeared here. The development of the settlement continued into the IX–VII/VI centuries BC. Stratified late Bronze Age and initial early Iron Age sites are relatively few in the Upper Volga left-bank area. Consequently, the study of materials from the Voznesenskoye I settlement excavations is both relevant and important. However, within the collection, it is impossible to isolate stone artifacts specifically attributable to the late Bronze Age or the early Iron Age stage. This is true both based on the character of the flint raw material and the degree of erosional surface alteration (roundness, weathering). The stone industry of this period shows virtually no change. This evidently indicates a continuity in stone-working traditions by the net-impressed pottery population at the beginning of the early Iron Age. Nomenclature of stone items is also practically identical. Stone artifacts dating back to the Mesolithic were also discovered in the excavation area.
Galimova et al. (Thu,) studied this question.