Pendant
Light red-brown pendant of elongated shape. Its opposite end of driilling zone reminds a pear in its outlines; the upper wall of the ear is absent. An indefinable fragment of a bone (metapody of a small predator -?) became a blank for the item.
Manufacturing technique
The hole was made by biconical drilling, probably by arched one. The axis of rotation is not strictly perpendicular to the plane of drilling, the turn of the drill around its axis is more than 180º. Before drilling the plane was prepared. Flattening was probably done with a knife, unidirectional movement. The surface of the item is lightly grinded using abrasive, probably ocher (hematite).
Use-wear traces
Traces of disposal are not found
Storage location
Fund of Institute of Archeology and Ethnography of the SB RASInventory number
noThe Museum KAMIS
noSize
Length - 18 mm
Width: in the area of the eyelet - 7 mm, base - 11 mm
Thickness: in the area of the eyelet - 2.5 mm; base - 5.5 mm
Material
BoneDating
43 - 30 th. BCCulture
Early Upper PaleolithicThe author of the excavations
Derevyanko A. P.1991
Publications
Derevyanko A. P., Rybin Е. P. Drevnejshee proyavlenie simvolicheskoj deyatel'nosti paleoliticheskogo cheloveka na Gornom Altae // Arheologiya, etnografiya i antropologiya Еvrazii. 2003. № 3 (15). S. 40., Ris. 14,2; 16.
Rybin, E.P. Tools, beads, and migrations, specific cultural traits in the Initial Upper Paleolithic of southern Siberia and central Asia. Quaternary International. 2014. Vol. 347. P. 46–47. doi, 10.1016/j.quaint.2014.04.031
