Image source: Krivoshapkin, A., Shalagina, A., Baumann, M., Shnaider, S., & Kolobova, K. Between Denisovans and Neanderthals: Strashnaya Cave in the Altai Mountains. Antiquity, 92(365)

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Pendant -plate

The item was made of mammoth tusk that has the shape of a square plate. There is an oval hole on the top edge in the center of the product.


Manufacturing technique

The product is made on a fragment (bone or tusk?), Traces of flattening are marked on the surface, probably with a scrapper. Marking straight lines made by the cutter are clearly visible. However, fragmentation was carried out according to other markings. The hole is uneven, probably made by cutting technique.


Storage location

Fund of Institute of Archeology and Ethnography of the SB RAS

Material

Ivory? Bone?

Dating

30-27 th. years BP

Culture

Early Upper Paleolithic

The author of the excavations

Zenin A. N.
2006

Publications

Krivoshapkin, A., Shalagina, A., Baumann, M., Shnaider, S., & Kolobova K. Between Denisovans and Neanderthals: Strashnaya Cave in the Altai Mountains. Antiquity, 92(365). P. 2., Figure 4.4 https://doi.org/10.15184/AQY.2018.221 


Page authors: A. Pankina