Harpoon (antler)
One-sided arcuate harpoon of elongated parameters. It has seven sloping serrations, the eighth serration is made in the form of a short triangular ledge. The head is separated by an oblique-straight cutout in the form of a small ledge; in its upper part, there is a hole drilled at an angle. The base of the head is extended and narrowed slightly to the end which planned with a facet. The tip is small. It is clearly seen and made with a convergence of a smooth-edging and a serration. The center line is deformed at the place of gluing.
It is one of sixteen harpoons found in the burial №3.
Manufacturing technique
Cutting, drilling
Storage location
The Museum of Buryat History named after Khangalov M.N.Inventory number
10607/2Size
Length - 261,67 mm
Width - 15,53 mm
Thickness - 9,21 mm
Diameter of the hole - 4,06 mm
Material
AntlerDating
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.
