Ornamented rod
A slightly bent ivory rod with transverse, obliquely located, thin cuts (closed and not closed). Lines are uneven; both tips are broken off. The item is partially restored.
Manufacturing technique
The surface of the item is made with a push-plane, there are longitudinal scratches; the ornament is made with a knife in one direction.
Use-wear traces
Use-wear traces are evenly over the entire surface, at the tips there is a large smoothing that overlaps the ornament (about 1/4 of the item).
Storage location
The State Historical museum of RussiaInventory number
1820/132Size
Length - 118,41 mm;
Thickness - 8,55 mm.
Distance between lines from 1,5 mm to 3,3 mm.
Material
IvoryDating
19-23 th years BPCulture
Mal'ta-Buret' archaeological cultureThe author of the excavations
Gerasimov M.M.1956
Publications
Gerasimov M. M. Paleoliticheskaya stoyanka Mal'ta (raskopki 19561957 gg.)// SE. – 1958. - № 3. – S. 28-52.
Lipnina Е. A. Mal'tinskoe mestonahozhdenie verhnepaleoliticheskih kul'tur: Sovremennoe sostoyanie izuchennosti i perspektivy issledovaniya: dissertaciya na soiskanie uch. stepeni kandidata istoricheskih nauk: 07.00.06. – Irkutsk, 2002. –310 s. S. 137-156
