Round pendant (from a concentration)
An item is oval in shape, rounded in profile with a single hole at the edge. Probably, the pendant was sewn onto clothes as evidenced by the flattening of the item on one side.
Manufacturing technique
The process of manufacturing the pendant consisted of several stages. A blank of the required shape was formed by chipping a flake (or half of a small pebble). At the last stage, the blank was ground and drilled.
Various sizes of pyrophyllite pebbles were used as raw materials for the manufacture of pendants.
Use-wear traces
Traces of grinding, polishing and drilling were recorded.
Storage location
North-Eastern State University, Magadan cityInventory number
Ушки-V-2004The Museum KAMIS
NoSize
Length - 12-15 mm
Height - 10-11 mm
Thickness - 4 mm
Material
Pyrophyllite (agalmatolite)Dating
13300 – 12500 years BPCulture
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.2004
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.
