A blank of an anthropomorphic statuette
This is a round blank of a sculpture with highlited head, flattened to the body. The thickness of the item is rather the same on the whole surface.
Manufacturing technique
The surface of the blank is made with a push-plane; the neck is marked with a knife, working as a reciprocating saw.
Use-wear traces
Use-wear traces are not found.
Storage location
The State Historical museum of RussiaInventory number
1820/75Size
Length - 61,58 mm;
Width - 13,87 mm;
Thickness - 11,86 mm.
Details:
Head: 11,15 mm – length; 10,86 mm - width.
Diametr of tip: 6.67 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 1956–1957 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. 157-163
