Blade with holes
This blade with holes is an intermediate step in the bead manufacturing chain. It shows the stage of forming a flat blank and drilling the holes. The next stage is cutting the blade in fragments of certain sizes and giving the item a round shape. We studied two such blanks for a mass manufacturing of beads in the collection.
Manufacturing technique
In most cases, forming traces on the ends of such items are not found. The surface was treated with a burin on both sides. The most intensive treatment can be traced from a relatively more convex side. At the final stage of work, double-sided drilling of holes without flaring was made. Then the blade was cut into pieces which were subsequently treated for small and medium beads.
Use-wear traces
Not found
Storage location
The museum of IAAE SB RASInventory number
№239/11Size
Length - 42 mm
Width - 12 mm
Thickness - 2 mm
Material
IvoryDating
19-23 th years BPCulture
Upper PaleolithicThe author of the excavations
Drozdov N. I.1981
Publications
Vasil'evskij R. S., Burilov V. V., Drozdov N. I. Arheologicheskie pamyatniki Severnogo Priangar'ya. – Novosibirsk, Nauka, 1988. – 244 s.
