Fang decoration
The item is a boar fang split longitudinally. In the thich area, there are three holes. On the narrow sharpened end, there is one more hole for fastening. The surface is grinded. There are some traces of ocher on the surface.
The item was found in the burial №15, on the forehead of the buried man, near the similar item.
Manufacturing technique
Grinding, drilling
The holes in the thick area are one-sided and were drilled from the back side.
Storage location
The museum of BSC SB RASInventory number
242Size
Length - 136 mm
Width - 26 mm
Diameter of the holes - 2 mm
Material
Boar fangDating
6 000 years BPCulture
NeolithicThe author of the excavations
Konev V.P.1996
Publications
Lbova L.V. Pogrebal'nye kompleksy neolita - rannego bronzovogo veka Zabajkal'ya (formirovanie arhetipov pervobytnoj kul'tury) / L.V. Lbova, E.D. ZHambaltarova, V.P. Konev. - Novosibirsk: Izd-vo Instituta arheologii i etnografii SO RAN, 2008. - 248 S.
