Mammoth figurine

The figurine is an item with a flat base and a curly shape, resembling an image of a mammoth. On the one side of the figure there is a semi-lunar (C-shaped) ornament.



Manufacturing technique

The item is polished over the entire surface. A planning knife was used for shaping the contour of the figurine. The ornament is made with a burin. In the neck, there are traces of two transverse parallel lines made with a burin and separated the body from the head. The formation of lines preceded the ornamentation of caverns. The flattened side is made on a solid flat abrasive and is an ideal plane.


Use-wear traces

Light polishing


Storage location

The State Hermitage Museum

Inventory number

370-734

The Museum KAMIS

no

Size

Length - 43.01 mm;

Width - 21.34 mm;

Thickness: in the baset zone - 12.29 mm, in the upper part - 8.58 mm.


Material

ivory

Dating

19 - 23 th. years BP

Culture

Mal'ta-Buret' culture

The author of the excavations

Gerasomov M.M.
1929

Publications

Abramova Z. A. Paleoliticheskoe iskusstvo na territorii SSSR. – M.-L.: Izd-vo AN SSSR, 1962.  – S. 50. Tabl. LV,41.(in Russ.)

Volkova YU. S. Iskusstvo malyh form Severnoj Azii v ehpohu verhnego paleolita. – Dissertaciya na soiskanie u. stepeni kand. ist. nauk. – Kemerovo, 2011. S. 68, 176, 245. Ris. 14-9,13; 24-2.(in Russ.)

Kamennyj vek YUzhnogo Priangar'ya. Bel'skij geoarheologicheskij rajon. / Medvedev G.I., Slagoda E.A., Lipnina E.A., Berdnikova N.E., Generalov A.G., Rogovskoj E.O., Oshepkova E.B., Vorob'eva G.A., SHmygun P.E. – Irkutsk: Izd-vo IGU, 2001. – T.II. – S. 77. (in Russ.)

Lbova L.V., Volkov P.V., Pankina A.I. Tekhnologicheskie aspekty proizvodstva mobil'noj plastiki v verhnem paleolite (zoomorfnaya skul'ptura Mal'ty) // V (XXI) Vserossijskij arheologicheskij s"ezd: sbornik nauchnyh trudov / otv. red. A.P. Derevyanko, A.A. Tishkin. – Barnaul: FGBOU VO «Altajskij gosudarstvennyj universitet», 2017. – S. 609.(in Russ.)

Lipnina E. A. Mal'tinskoe mestonahozhdenie verhnepaleoliticheskih kul'tur: sovremennoe sostoyanie izuchennosti i perspektivy issledovaniya. – Dissertaciya na soiskanie u. stepeni kand. ist. nauk. – Irkutsk, 2002. S. 148. (in Russ.)