Figurine "Bear's Head"
The item is an image of a bear's head, made on a chalcedony flake. The animal's muzzle, elongated nose, nostrils, mouth shape, frontal part and ear are well treated. The nape of the neck is decorated with a flat creeping overlapping retouch of medium size.
Manufacturing technique
The item is made on a flake deliberately retouched.
Use-wear traces
There are no traces of using the item as a tool (definition of P. V. Volkov).
Storage location
North-Eastern State University, Magadan cityInventory number
Ушки-V-2008/п/мThe Museum KAMIS
NoSize
Length - 31 mm
Height - 19 mm
Thickness - 7 mm
Material
Chalcedony (carnelian)Dating
noCulture
Ushki V site, presumably cultural layer IV, Early NeolithicThe author of the excavations
Ponkratova I.Yu.2008
Publications
Ponkratova I.Yu. Rannij neolit Kamchatki (po rezul'tatam issledovaniya stoyanki Ushki-V, Ust'-Kamchatskij rajon, p-ov Kamchatka // Arheologiya CIRCUM-PASIFIC: Pamyati Igorya YAkovlevicha SHevkomuda: sb. st. Vladivostok: Tihookeanskoe izdatel'stvo «Rubezh», 2017. S. 143–162.
Ponkratova I.Yu. Stages of settlement of the territory near the Big Ushkovsky Lake in Kamchatka at the end of the Pleistocene – Holocene // Archaeology, Ethnology & Anthropology of Eurasia 48/1, 2020. S. 41–51.
