Flying bird with shortened proportions

The image of a flying waterfowl is small and has shortened proportions. The body part is half of the figurine. The back is convex, smoothly passing into the neck, the abdomen is flattened. The figure has oval-shaped wings and a cone-shaped head. In the semi-oval shaped tail there is a hole, the end of the tail is broken off along the hole.



Manufacturing technique

A planning knife and a push-plane were used when shaping the item. Double-sided drilling technology has been used while making the legs. Paws are made with a burin. The surface of the item is smoothed.


Use-wear traces

General surface polishing due to a contact with a soft material. The item continued to be used after the loss of a fragment (tail).


Storage location

The State Historical museum of Russia

Inventory number

1822/624

The Museum KAMIS

no

Size

Length - 59.7 mm

Width: wings - 13.94 mm, carcass - 10.76 mm, neck - 5.39 mm

Thickness: in the carcass area - 5.17 mm, in the neck area - 4.35 mm

Hole diameter - 2.59 mm


Material

Ivory

Dating

19-23 th. years BP

Culture

Mal'ta-Buret' archaeological culture

The author of the excavations

Gerasimov M. M.
1957

Publications

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

Volkova YU. S. Iskusstvo malyh form Severnoj Azii v epohu verhnego paleolita. – Dissertaciya na soiskanie u. stepeni kand. ist. nauk. – Kemerovo, 2011. S. 65 Ris.  10-8.

Gerasimov M. M. Paleoliticheskaya stoyanka Mal'ta (raskopki 1956–1957 gg.)// SE. – 1958. -  № 3. S. 51. Ris. 22, b.

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, 83. Ris. 27-10.

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.

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. 74 - 6.

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.