Knife-Burin
A knife-burin made on a fragment of a wild boar fang. One end has two small round holes for fastening. The other end has an oblique side shear with a sharp side ledge. Longitudinal edges are sharp-smooth. One edge is flattened with a longitudinal narrow shear from one side. There are small transverse strokes on the split surface.
Manufacturing technique
Cutting, drilling
The knife-burin is made of a split plate of a wild boar fang. The edge with holes has a figured shape made by cutting. The item is probably made on a fragment of a broken diadem.
Use-wear traces
The working edge on the enamel side has a typical shine of use-wear.
Storage location
The Museum of Buryat History named after Khangalov M.N.Inventory number
10602Size
Length - 82,21 mm
Width - 20,91 mm
Diameter of the holes - 4,94 mm
Length of a burin part - 33,75 mm
Material
Wild boar fangDating
V-IV millennium BCCulture
NeolithicThe author of the excavations
Ivashina L.G.1970
Publications
Ivashina L.G. Neolit i eneolit lesostepnoj zony Buryatii. Novosibirsk / AN SSSR. Sib. otd-nie. Buryat. fil. Buryat. in-t obshchestv. nauk. - VO "Nauka". - 157 S.
