Bone pendant
The item is made on a flat fragment of the spoke-bone of a small ungulate (?). There is an elongated, rectangular shape hole that is made closer to one of the ends of the pendant. We also can see series of parallel cuts on the one of the item planes.
Manufacturing technique
The hole is made with the biconical drilling, probably archery. 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. Cut marks on the plane are made with a knife with a narrow non-retouched blade.
Storage location
Fund of Institute of Archeology and Ethnography of the SB RASThe Museum KAMIS
noSize
Length - 34 mm
Width - 8 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, 3; 18.
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