Nacreous piercing
Quadrangular flat items have a sub-square and sub-rectangular shape.
They were found in the chest area, on the right side, near the plates made of split boar fang. Some of items have a natural edge of shells. The drilling is one-sided, of the same type, obviously made at the same time, the same master and the same tool.
Manufacturing technique
The item was formed with a knife and a light abrasive. The drilling of the holes is one-sided.
Storage location
The museum of BSC SB RASInventory number
83Size
Sizes of sub-rectangular ones:
Length - 15,47 mm
Width - 11,03 mm
Size of an elongated one:
Legth - 19,87 mm
Width - 9,45 mm
Sizes of sub-square ones:
Length - 12,39 mm
Width - 11,02 mm
Thickness (average):
min. - 2,09 mm, max. - 3,07 mm
Material
A shell of freshwater clamDating
7590 +- 150 years BPCulture
NeolithicThe author of the excavations
Lbova L.V.2003
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.
