Bead (with ocher traces)
The item is flat and has a sub-square shape. It is probably a blank for a bead or it can perform the functions of a bead-stripe. There are traces of red pigment on the surface of the bead. On the surface of the bead, there are traces of red pigment of artificial origin. The iron content of the paint is 1%.
Manufacturing technique
On the surface, there are some traces of work with a burin and a knife which made the smoothing of contours and shaping the channels for the following breaking the blank in a certain place. The hole in the center is made with double-sided drilling. Traces of flaring are not found.
Use-wear traces
There are some traces of ocher on the surface
Storage location
The museum of IAAE SB RASInventory number
№239/10Size
Length of a square side - 12-13 mm
Width - 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.
