Diamond-shaped item with three holes
The item has a irregular diamond-like shape and made of brown-red talcite with dark veins. The surfaces of the item are covered with long thin technological scratches. The edges of the item are smoothed. In the central part of the item, there are three holes.
Manufacturing technique
Both sides of the item are flattened with a burin. Traces of the tool work are clearly seen on both sides of the item. The tool motion is returned. There are no traces of grinding. The holes are made with a manual drill with a working rotation less than 180°. The drilling channel is biconical. There are no traces of its flaring.
Use-wear traces
Traces of fastening or hanging the item are not found. The artefact's surface has clearly seen traces of smoothing. The origin of it is due to a contact with elastic organic material. One side of the item has a break, probably, technological one.
Storage location
Fund of Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography Siberian Branch, Russian Academy of SciencesInventory number
МС 75/446The Museum KAMIS
noSize
Length – 41.69 mm
Width – 26.1 mm
Thickness – 5.42 mm
Diameter of the hole (1) – 5.59 mm
Diameter of the hole (2) – 5.51 mm
Diameter of the hole (3) – 5.16 mm
Material
talciteDating
28-36 th. years BP (dating by culture layer)Culture
Early Upper PaleolithicThe author of the excavations
Larichev V. E.1975
Publications
Larichev V. E., Holyushkin Yu. P. Arheologiya vrekhnepaleoliticheskogo poseleniya Malaya Syya // Arheologiya, geologiya i paleografiya paleoliticheskih pamyatnikov Yuga Srednej Sibiri (Severo-Minusinskaya vpadina, Kuzneckij Alatau, Vostochnyj Sayan). Krasnoyarsk: izd-vo Zodiak, 1992. – S.109–122 (in Russiun).
Lbova L. V., Volkov P. V., Dolgorukova N. A., Barkov A. V., Larichev V. E. Predmety neutilitarnogo naznacheniya mestonahozhdeniya Malaya Syya (tekhnologicheskij aspekt) // Vestnik NGU. Seriya: Istoriya, filologiya. 2014. T. 13. Vyp. 5: Arheologiya i etnografiya. – S. 91-100 (in Russiun).
Lbova L. V., Kulik N. A., Volkov P. V., Barkov A. V., Vanharen M., Marchenko D. V., Kovalev V.S. Tekhnologiya obrabotki «ekzoticheskih» mineral'nyh resursov v pozdnem paleolite Yuzhnoj Sibiri (po materialam mestonahozhdeniya Malaya Syya) // Stratum plus, 2018, №1, s. 199-214.
Holyushkin Yu. P. Poselenie Malaya Syya - rannij etap verhnego paleolita Sibiri (k probleme nachala stanovleniya kul'tur Homo sapiens v Severnoj Azii) // Astroarheologiya - estestvennonauchnyj instrument poznaniya protonauk i astral'nyh religij zhrechestva drevnih kul'tur Hakasii. Krasnoyarsk: izd-vo Gorod, 2009. – S. 137 –145 (in Russiun).
