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Dagger-shaped point

Antler dagger-shaped tip in the form of slightly curved plate. It is made of cut large red deer horn. The item has a clear handle and a well-grinded round tip. One side has a relief of a horn surface, the other one has a surface with spongy material. On the edges, there are traces of shears. 


Manufacturing technique

Cutting, planning, grinding

The tip was made with a planning knife of a penny-like type.


Storage location

The Museum of Buryat History named after Khangalov M.N.

Inventory number

10617

Size

Length - 352,69 mm

Width (middle area) - 34,55 mm

Width (handle) - 29,33 mm

Thickness (middle area) - 14,19 mm

Diameter of the tip (base) - 8,75 mm


Material

antler of a red deer

Dating

V-IV millennium BC

Culture

Neolithic

The 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.


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