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Zoomorphic figurine

The item has a flattened trapezoidal shape. A round head is clerly seen. Pointy (side view) but not found tail of the figurine corresponds to seal's hind flippers. The trapezoidal bottom of the figure gets its explanation. The master depicted an animal standing in a tense pose, stretching out its head, and leaning on its flippers. The figurine which in the first edition was called “a bird sitting on a nest” [Vasilievsky, Drozdov, 1983] seems to be more consistent with the image of the seal (Akimova, Metlyaev, 2005; Schmidt, 2011].


Manufacturing technique

When microscopic analysis of the item, traces of tools that were used for its shaping were found. Almost the entire surface of the item has some traces of intensive grinding which cover some traces of a push-plane work. Some traces of a burin work were found in the head zone. 


Use-wear traces

On the lateral planes there are numerous traces of hits with a sharp object that were applied to the complete item.


Storage location

The museum of IAAE SB RAS

Inventory number

№239/12

Size

Length of upper line - 53 mm

Length of bottom line - 41 mm

Width - 51 mm

Thickness - 19 mm


Material

Ivory

Dating

19-23 th years BP

Culture

Upper Paleolithic

The author of the excavations

Drozdov N. I.
1981

Publications

Akimova E. V., Metlyaev S. V. Interpretaciya skul'pturnogo izobrazheniya s paleoliticheskoj stoyanki Ust'-Kova// Drevnosti Prienisejskogo kraya – Vyp. 2. – Krasnoyarsk. – 2003. – S. 18–19

Vasil'evskij R. S., Burilov V. V., Drozdov N. I. Arheologicheskie pamyatniki Severnogo Priangar'ya. – Novosibirsk, Nauka, 1988. – 244 s.

Vasil'evskij R. S., Drozdov N. I. Paleoliticheskie skul'pturnye izobrazheniya iz Vostochnoj Sibiri // Plastika i risunki drevnih kul'tur – Novosibirsk, Nauka, 1983. – S. 59–65


Page authors: L. Lbova