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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 RAS

Size

Length - 152-153 mm

Width - 110,3 mm

Thickness - 11,85 - 12,03 mm


Material

Ivory

Dating

19-23 th years BP

Culture

Upper Paleolithic

The 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.


Page authors: L. Lbova