Disc
The item conditionally called "guise-mask" has an oval shape. It is concave and highly fragmented.
Manufacturing technique
The item is made on a large ivory blank with a planning knife. On the convex side of the item, there are some traces of the same knife work. The traces are covered with cutting tool traces. Elongated caverns that decorate the surface are made with a cutting tool. On the concave side there are some traces of a burin work (a surface alignment near the ends was made with this tool).
Use-wear traces
The item is heavily destroyed
Storage location
Krasnoyarsk palaeoecology of the middle Siberia laboratory IAAE SB RASSize
Length - 152-153 mm
Width - 110,3 mm
Thickness - 11,85 - 12,03 mm
Material
IvoryDating
19-23 th years BPCulture
Upper PaleolithicThe author of the excavations
Drozdov N. I.1979
Publications
Vasil'evskij R. S., Burilov V. V., Drozdov N. I. Arheologicheskie pamyatniki Severnogo Priangar'ya. – Novosibirsk, Nauka, 1988. – 244 s.
