Flying bird (goose)

This is an ivory figurine of a waterfowl (goose) in flight. The statuette was made in dark colours. The item has elongated proportions, the back and abdomen are flattened, the trapezoidal tail part is volumetric. A diamond-shaped head and small trapezoidal wings are highlighted. There is a hole in the tail part.



Manufacturing technique

A planning knife was used when shaping the item, as well as a push-plane for forming the head, wings and tail part. Traces of work with a burin are found on the surface of the head and wings. Traces of burining and polishing are found over the entire surface of the sculpture. The hole in the tail part is made with a reamer from both sides.


Use-wear traces

Use-wear traces are not found around the hole.


Storage location

The State Historical museum of Russia

Inventory number

1820/194

The Museum KAMIS

no

Size

Length - 74.21 mm

Width - 22.51 mm

Thickness: in the carcass area - 8.5 mm, in the neck area - 5.1 mm

Hole diameter - 2.47 mm


Material

Ivory

Dating

19-23 th. years BP

Culture

Mal'ta-Buret' archaeological culture

The author of the excavations

Gerasimov M. M.
1956

Publications

Abramova Z. A. Paleoliticheskoe iskusstvo na territorii SSSR. – M.-L.: Izd-vo AN SSSR, 1962.  – S. 48. Tabl. LII, 6.

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Gerasimov M. M. Paleoliticheskaya stoyanka Mal'ta (raskopki 1956–1957 gg.)// SE. – 1958. -  № 3. S. 39. Ris. 12, a.

Kamennyj vek YUzhnogo Priangar'ya. Bel'skij geoarheologicheskij rajon. / Medvedev G.I., Slagoda Е.A., Lipnina Е.A., Berdnikova N.Е., Generalov A.G., Rogovskoj Е.O., Oshepkova Е.B., Vorob'eva G.A., SHmygun P.Е. – Irkutsk: Izd-vo IGU, 2001. – T.II. – S. 77. Ris. 27-5.

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. 608.

Lbova L.V., Pankina A.I. Mal'tinskaya ornitomorfnaya plastika kak kul'turnyj kod paleoliticheskogo naseleniya Sibiri // Iskusstvo Еvrazii. – 2018. – №4(11). – S. 14-15. Ris. 1.1.

Lipnina Е. 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, 165. Ris. 73 - 5.

Pankina A.I. Ornitomorfnaya skul'ptura stoyanki Mal'ta: klassifikaciya na osnove tekhnologicheskogo analiza // Sovremennye problemy izucheniya drevnih i tradicionnyh kul'tur narodov Еvrazii: mat-ly LVII Ros. (s mezhdunar. uchastiem) arheol.-etnogr. konf. studentov, aspirantov i molodyh uchenyh, g. Surgut, 17–21 aprelya 2017 g. – Novosibirsk: Izd-vo IAET SO RAN, 2017b. – S. 291.

Formozov A. A. Pamyatniki pervobytnogo iskusstva na territorii SSSR. – M.: «Nauka». – 1980. – Ris. 2.