Bead
A small bead has a round flat shape and biconical hole in the center. On some of such items we can see some traces of sewing. There are 6 such items in the Ust'-Kova collection.
Manufacturing technique
Traces of treatment are clearly seen on the faces. The hole is made with a reamer from both sides of the bead. There are two items in the collection that have planes formed with grinding. Their contour is made properly. The item is grined on the entire surface.
Use-wear traces
One of such items has some traces of contact with soft material and some traces of sewing, probably, to clothes.
Storage location
Krasnoyarsk palaeoecology of the middle Siberia laboratory IAAE SB RASInventory number
noThe Museum KAMIS
noSize
Diameter - 3,35 mm
Thickness - 1,45 mm
Diameter of the hole - 0,54 mm
Material
IvoryDating
19-23 th years BPCulture
Upper PaleolithicThe author of the excavations
Drozdov N. I.1980