Fragment of a whistle
An item of an elongated shape made of tubular bird bone. On its surface, there are thin parallel notches.
Manufacturing technique
It is difficult to determine the way of fragmenting the bone. Most likeky, the bone fracture was due to perforation the technological notches along the edges. Technological and ornamental notches are made with the same tool with a narrow thin blade (a stone knife).
Use-wear traces
Traces of light polishing are found on the entire surface. Most of polishing was found on the one end of the item.
Storage location
The museum of BSC SB RASInventory number
151Material
Tubular boneDating
40 000 - 45 000 years BPCulture
Initial Upper PaleolithicThe author of the excavations
Lbova L.V.Publications
Volkov P. V., Lbova L. V. Tekhnologiya izgotovleniya natel'nyh ukrashenij na rannej stadii verhnego paleolita (po materialam Zapadnogo Zabajkal'ya) // Vestn. Novosib. gos. un-ta. Seriya: Istoriya, filologiya. – 2009. – T. 8. – Vyp. 5: Arheologiya i etnografiya. – S. 62–73 (In Russian)
Lbova L.V. Predmety personal'noj ornamentacii v kontekste znakovyh sistem paleolita Sibiri// Universum Humanitarium, 2016, №1(2). S. 37-49 (In Russian)
Lbova L. V. Paleolit severnoj zony Zapadnogo Zabajkal'ya. – Ulan-Ude: Izd-vo BNC SO RAN, 2000. – 240 s. (In Russian)
