A fragment of a bracelet blank
The item is a poorly treated fragment of a bracelet. The item has a sub-rectangular shape, slightly bent. It was defined as a fragment of a bracelet blank due to the absence of additional treatment and use-wear traces.
Manufacturing technique
The item is defined as a blank. There are some proto traces of the surface treatment. There are some traces of a push-plane working along the outer diameter and traces of working with a push-plane and probably a burin along the inner diameter.
Use-wear traces
There are some traces of polishing along the almost entire surface including the edges.
Storage location
The State Hermitage MuseumInventory number
1820-180Size
Inner diameter - 60 mm
Outer diameter - 125 mm
Length - 47.86 mm
Thickness - 18.41 x 21.85 mm
Material
boghead (coal)Dating
19-23 th. years BPCulture
Mal'ta-Buret' archaeological cultureThe 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.
Volkov P.V., Lbova L.V. Mal'tinskie braslety iz bogheda // Materialy Godovoj sessii Instituta arheologii i etnografii SO RAN 2016. — Novosibirsk: Izd-vo Instituta arheologii i etnografii SO RAN, 2016.
ZHdanova A.I. Ornamentika i forma mal'tinskih brasletov // Arheologiya : Materialy 57-j Mezhdunar. nauch. stud. konf. 14–19 aprelya 2019 g. / Novosib. gos. un-t. — Novosibirsk : IPC NGU, 2019. — S.23-24.
