Figurine of a fish
The item is a figurative image of a fish made on an obsidian flake. The head of the fish is decorated with large flakes.
Manufacturing technique
The item is made on a flake in the form of a fish. One of the flakes is of a natural origin, the second one is artificial.
Use-wear traces
No traces of binding or use as a tool were found (definition by P. V. Volkov).
Storage location
North-Eastern State University, Magadan cityInventory number
Ушки-V-2008/149The Museum KAMIS
NoSize
Length - 23 mm
Height - 12 mm
Thickness - 1 mm
Material
ObsidianDating
4055 ± 75 BP, 4382 ± 79 BP, 5725 ± 90 BP.Culture
Сultural layer IV, Early NeolithicThe author of the excavations
Ponkratova I.Yu.2009
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
