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Modified pebble

The item can be classified as an anthropomorphic head made on a flattened oval chalcedone pebble. A round part of the head retains a nature shape. The edge is smoothed. The front part is modified with several medium flakes that conditionally considered as a forehead, a nose, a mouth, a chin. 


Manufacturing technique

Knapping with small negative flake scars of one edge of the item. 


Use-wear traces

Light polishing of the entire surface


Size

Diameter - 26-30 mm (along the long axis)


Material

Chalcedony

Dating

over 40 thousand years BP

Culture

Early Upper Palaeolithic

The author of the excavations

Lbova L.V.
2019

Page authors: T. Rostiazhenko, L. Lbova