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Fang decoration

The item is a boar fang split longitudinally. In the thich area, there are three holes. On the narrow sharpened end, there is one more hole for fastening. The surface is grinded. There are some traces of ocher on the surface. 

The item was found in the burial №15, on the forehead of the buried man, near the similar item. 


Manufacturing technique

Grinding, drilling

The holes in the thick area are one-sided and were drilled from the back side. 


Storage location

The museum of BSC SB RAS

Inventory number

242

Size

Length - 136 mm

Width - 26 mm

Diameter of the holes - 2 mm


Material

Boar fang

Dating

6 000 years BP

Culture

Neolithic

The author of the excavations

Konev V.P.
1996

Publications

Lbova L.V. Pogrebal'nye kompleksy neolita - rannego bronzovogo veka Zabajkal'ya (formirovanie arhetipov pervobytnoj kul'tury) / L.V. Lbova, E.D. ZHambaltarova, V.P. Konev. - Novosibirsk: Izd-vo Instituta arheologii i etnografii SO RAN, 2008. - 248 S.


Page authors: T. Rostiazhenko, L. Lbova