Maral tooth pendants
The pendants are in one bunch which consists of 99 red deer fangs. The holes for hanging are drilled in the middle part of the teeth bases. Trajectory of the channel is oblique and has an extended end and a narrowed one. The most of the items has traces of ocher.
Such items has a wide regional spreading in the Neolithic and Bronze Age cultures of Baikal Siberia.
Manufacturing technique
Manufacturing, drilling
The drilling was made with a different ways: biconical drilling from two sides, the drilling with a stone reamer (less than 180 degrees rotation), bow-shaped drilling.
Use-wear traces
The edges of the base have some traces of smoothing down. They can be traces of use-wear. The items were worn on the chest like necklaces or sewn to clothes.
Storage location
The Museum of Buryat History named after Khangalov M.N.Inventory number
10505Size
Length (average) - 20-30 mm
Thickness (average) - 12-16 mm
Diameter of the hole - 2,70-3,01 mm
Material
Teeth (atrophied red deer fangs)Dating
VII-V th. BCCulture
NeolithicThe author of the excavations
Ivashina L.G.1968
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.
