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Triangular pendant

Item is triangular in shape, flat in profile, with a single hole placed in the upper part of the item. A pendant is made of soft rock - pyrophyllite (agalmatolite). The upper part of the item is broken off. 


Manufacturing technique

The pendant manufacturing process consisted of several stages. The first stage was the selection of raw materials. At the second stage, a blank of the required shape was created by pounding. At the third stage, the blanks were ground and drilled.

Various sizes of pyrophyllite pebbles were used as raw materials for the manufacture of pendants.


Storage location

North-Eastern State University, Magadan city

Inventory number

Ушки-V-2007

The Museum KAMIS

No

Size

Length - 16 mm

Height - 13 mm

Thickness - 3 mm


Material

Pyrophyllite (agalmatolite)

Dating

13300 – 12500 years BP

Culture

Ushki V site, cultural layer VII, transition from the Paleolithic to the Neolithic, the end of the Pleistocene.

The author of the excavations

Ponkratova I.Yu.
2007

Publications

Ponkratova I.Yu., Gubar Yu.S., Lbova L.V. Spektralnyy analiz okrashennykh artefaktov sloya VII stoyanki Ushki V (poluostrov Kamchatka) // Universum Humanitarium. 2019. № 1. S. 56–71.

Ponkratova I.Yu. Etapy zaseleniya territorii u Bolshogo Ushkovskogo ozera na Kamchatke v kontse pleystotsena – golotsene // Arkheologiya. etnografiya i antropologiya Evrazii. 2020. T. 48. № 1. S. 41–51.


Page authors: Yu. Gubar, I. Ponkratova, L. Lbova