C-shaped pendant
It is a flat assymmetric item made on flat triangular flake of white talc. On the one side of it, a large hole was made, so the item has a hook shape.
Manufacturing technique
A flat surface of the item is a result of an intentional split of a blank. Obviously, it was the first step of an artefact treatment. Traces of treatment the surface are not found, but on the side the hole was made with probably a reamer. The drilling point is displaced to the edge of the item (obviously, consciously), the next step of the work with the blank was the combination of the hole and the notch on the versant. For shaping the notch, two drillings were made from the plane side of the longitudinal splitting the artefact. The final stage of the treatment is polishing with soft leather.
Use-wear traces
Traces of polishing the surface are found.
Storage location
The museum of BSC SB RASInventory number
129Size
Length - 21,14 mm
Width (average) - 13,38 mm
Thickness - 2,39-3,49 mm
Material
light green talcDating
40 000 - 45 000 years BPCulture
Initial Upper PaleolithicThe author of the excavations
Lbova L.V.2000
Publications
Volkov P. V., Lbova L. V. Tekhnologiya izgotovleniya natel'nyh ukrashenij na rannej stadii verhnego paleolita (po materialam Zapadnogo Zabajkal'ya) // Vestn. Novosib. gos. un-ta. Seriya: Istoriya, filologiya. – 2009. – T. 8. – Vyp. 5: Arheologiya i etnografiya. – S. 62–73
Lbova L.V. Predmety personal'noj ornamentacii v kontekste znakovyh sistem paleolita Sibiri// Universum Humanitarium, 2016, №1(2). S. 37-49
Lbova L. V. Paleolit severnoj zony Zapadnogo Zabajkal'ya. – Ulan-Ude: Izd-vo BNC SO RAN, 2000. – 240 s.
Lbova L. V. Formy znakovogo povedeniya v kul'turah rannego verhnego paleolita Sibiri // Gumanitarnye nauki v Sibiri, № 3. 2011, S. 11-15
