Figured item
The item has a complex propeller-like shape with rounded angular lenticular forms in cross section. It was made of serpentine (or talcit) of greenish-yellow color with brown spots and calcite mineral. It has a large breakage on cracks extending to the hole. The outer edge of the item around the perimeter is covered with 44 short notches singular in composition.
Manufacturing technique
Scratches and pits of a technological nature are visible on the surface, traces of a burin work are well traced. The working edge of the tool was relatively wide. Obviously, with its help, the blank was flattened before the hole was drilled. Double-sided drilling was made with a reamer with a working rotary of less than 180 °. Flaring conical drilling channel is not found.
The notches are made with a cutting tool. The tool for such work served as a knife. Probable tool kinematics is translational. Most of the surface of the item is smoothed, this type of surface, as a rule, can be formed from contact with elastic organic material like skin.
Use-wear traces
no
Storage location
Fund of Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography Siberian Branch, Russian Academy of SciencesInventory number
noThe Museum KAMIS
noSize
Length (along the long axis) - 38,85 mm
Width (max) - 23,75 mm
Thickness (average) - около 6,0 mm
Diameter of the hole (at the beginning) - 6,63 mm
Diameter of the hole (min) - 4,14 mm
Material
talcitDating
28-36 th. years BP (dating by culture layer)Culture
Early Upper PaleolithicThe author of the excavations
Larichev V. E.1975
Publications
Larichev V. E., Holyushkin Yu. P. Arheologiya vrekhnepaleoliticheskogo poseleniya Malaya Syya // Arheologiya, geologiya i paleografiya paleoliticheskih pamyatnikov Yuga Srednej Sibiri (Severo-Minusinskaya vpadina, Kuzneckij Alatau, Vostochnyj Sayan). Krasnoyarsk: izd-vo Zodiak, 1992. – S.109–122 (in Russiun).
Lbova L. V., Volkov P. V., Dolgorukova N. A., Barkov A. V., Larichev V. E. Predmety neutilitarnogo naznacheniya mestonahozhdeniya Malaya Syya (tekhnologicheskij aspekt) // Vestnik NGU. Seriya: Istoriya, filologiya. 2014. T. 13. Vyp. 5: Arheologiya i etnografiya. – S. 91-100 (in Russiun).
Lbova L. V., Kulik N. A., Volkov P. V., Barkov A. V., Vanharen M., Marchenko D. V., Kovalev V.S. Tekhnologiya obrabotki «ekzoticheskih» mineral'nyh resursov v pozdnem paleolite Yuzhnoj Sibiri (po materialam mestonahozhdeniya Malaya Syya) // Stratum plus, 2018, №1, s. 199-214.
Holyushkin Yu. P. Poselenie Malaya Syya - rannij etap verhnego paleolita Sibiri (k probleme nachala stanovleniya kul'tur Homo sapiens v Severnoj Azii) // Astroarheologiya - estestvennonauchnyj instrument poznaniya protonauk i astral'nyh religij zhrechestva drevnih kul'tur Hakasii. Krasnoyarsk: izd-vo Gorod, 2009. – S. 137 –145 (in Russiun).
