Fragment №1 of ornamented dagger
A dagger with inserts in slots was found in five fragments. There is no handle. The dagger is double sharp. The blade has a regular elongated triangular shape. It is oval-shaped in cross section. One side is solid, polished, and has a yellow-gray color (front side). The back side is covered with spongy material which is turning into solid bone at 100 mm from the lower end. The blade is made of quartzite inserts of rectangular or square shape. One edge remained 28 inserts, the other one remained 45 inserts. The slots has a cross section of triangular shape. The handle is broken on two holes. Their diameter is not more than 5 mm.
Both sides of the dagger have an ornament. It is a row of drilled points adjacent to each other and located along the centeral axis. The row of points end 35 mm to the tip. The row of points also has three rhombus located near each other at a distance of 256-291 mm from the tip. On the left edge, opposite the middle rhombus, three V-shaped notces are drilled. The back side of the dagger has a line triangular in cross section and located along the centeral axis. In the upper part of it, there are three zigzags ("waves"). They are located at the same distance to the tip as the rhombuses on the front side.
Manufacturing technique
The manufacturing included cutting, planning, grinding. On the both sides of the dagger, the ornament is made with a drilling, scratching, and sawing techniques. The points were made after the line pre-engraving.
Use-wear traces
Use-wear traces on the inserts were not found. The dagger was broken in ancient times (a languette fracture gives a reason to believe that the dagger was broken after it was thrown).
Storage location
Omsk State Historical museumInventory number
9675Size
Length - 270 mm
Width - 42 mm
Thickness - 10 mm
Inserts' sizes - 25,5х6х1 - 3,5х3,5х1 mm
Depth of the slots - 2,5-3 mm
Width of the slots - 1,5-2 mm
Material
Costal bone (bison-?)Dating
14500+-500 years BPCulture
Mesolithic - final PalaeolithicThe author of the excavations
Petrin V.T.1974
Publications
Genning V.F., Petrin V.T. Pozdnepaleoliticheskaya epoha na yuge Zapadnoj Sibiri. - Novosibirsk, 1985.
Petrin V.T. Paleoliticheskie pamyatniki Zapadno-Sibirskoj ravniny. - Novosibirsk, 1986.
Petrin V.T. Raskopki pozdnepaleoliticheskoj stoyanki CHernoozer'e II na Srednem Irtyshe // Iz istorii Sibiri. - Tomsk, 1974.
SHmidt I.V. Predvaritel'noe soobshchenie ob informacionnyh vozmozhnostyah ornamenta chernoozerskogo kinzhala // SHestye istoricheskie chteniya pamyati M.P. Gryaznova. Materialy vserossijskoj konferencii – Omsk: OmGU, 2004 – S.152-156.
SHmidt I.V. Ob informacionnom haraktere CHernoozerskogo ornamenta (na primere analiza zapisej kinzhala) // Izvestiya OGIK muzeya. – 2005 a. – Vyp. 11. - S. 98-105.
