Pendant-bead

The item has a shape of a flattened wide cylinder (feldspar crystal). In the central part there is a groove for fastening. The quality of preservation is good.



Manufacturing technique

Traces of sawing with a knife (knife-saw) for making the fastening channel were found.


Use-wear traces

Channel depth all around the perimeter is about the same; traces of a light polishing are found on the sides and inside the channel


Storage location

The State Historical museum of Russia

Inventory number

1830/483

The Museum KAMIS

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Size

Length - 25.02 mm

Width - 31.9 mm

Thickness - 23.77 mm


Material

feldspar

Dating

19-23 th. years BP

Culture

Mal'ta-Buret' archaeological culture

The author of the excavations

Gerasimov M.M.
1958

Publications

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. –310 s. S. 137-156