Ivory beads
Ivory beads (25 items). In the context of the child's burial, the beads were located orderly and were a part of a necklace. There are traces of sewing on some of them.
We can distiguish three groups of the beads:
1. convex on one side and flat on the other one, 5 pcs;
2. both sides are slightly convex, the drilling is similar, no traces of sewing and polishing, 8 pcs;
3. both sides are flat and have traces of polishing, the drilling is similar, no traces of sewing. On the inner side of the drilling channels, there is a light polishing (these are beads-pendants), 12 pcs.
Manufacturing technique
The drilling is made with a high quality, is close to the bow drilling (more than 180 g). The profile of the hole is cylindrical, even. On some single items, there is a flaring from the convex side.
On the flat side of the №3 type items, there are traces of grinding and polishing on a soft surface.
Use-wear traces
On the convex side of the №1 type items, there are traces (indentations), channels formed of sewing the items to the surface. On the sewing side, the surface is polished, the edges are smoothed. The opposite side is flat, the edges are sharp; there are no traces of polishing.
Storage location
The State Hermitage MuseumInventory number
№ 334-83Size
Average size - 9.61 – 8.66 mm
Average hole size - 3.36 – 3.70 – 3.08 mm
Material
IvoryDating
19-23 th. years BPCulture
Mal'ta-Buret' archaeological cultureThe author of the excavations
Gerasimov M.M.1930
Publications
Gerasimov M.M. Mal'ta. Paleoliticheskaya stoyanka (predvaritel'nye dannye): rezul'taty rabot 1928/29 g. – Irkutsk: Vlast' truda, 1931. – S. 28 (Tab. 21)
Lipnina E. 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. – S.306 (ris.76)
