Ivory Figurines and the Symbolic Context of a Paleolithic Dwelling at Kovrizhka IV on the Lower Vitim River, Eastern Siberia
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6037496 |
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| Authors | A V Tetenkin (0000-0003-2448-3580), O V Zhmur (0000-0003-2889-6147, Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography (Kunstkamera), Russian Academy of Sciences), E I Demonterova (0000-0001-9085-6125), E V Kaneva (0000-0001-7155-6784), N V Salnaya (0000-0002-3618-6439) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 46 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 3-12 |
| Publication date | 2018-12-23 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Archaeology Ethnology and Anthropology of Eurasia (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1563-0110 • E-ISSN: 1531-832X |
| Publisher | Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography SB RAS (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.17746/1563-0102.2018.46.4.003-012 |
| OpenAlex | W2908017147 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 2 |
One of the most important recent discoveries made on the Vitim River (Baikal-Patom plateau, Eastern Siberia) is that of a Paleolithic dwelling at Kovrizhka IV, layer 6. It reveals markers of symbolic activity, such as two anthropomorphic ivory figurines. They were associated with a likewise non-utilitarian context: reiterating boulder and slab pavements, ocher on lithics, on a figurine, and around, evidence of manipulations with the central hearth in the dwelling. One of the figurines shows a triangle pointing downward and possibly rendering the pubes, as in female figurines. Stylistically it resembles Neolithic and Bronze Age anthropomorphic figurines from the Baikal area. Its head, painted with ocher, was directed eastwards. The second ivory figurine has a contour barely reminiscent of the human body. There is no engraving on it. Near its head, a cluster of ocher pieces was found. The radiocarbon date of the dwelling is ca 15.7 ka BP. The two figurines and a fragment of a graphite pendant are the first objects of portable art to be found in the area north of Lake Baikal. The first figurine is thus far the only unambiguously anthropomorphic Upper Paleolithic representation from northeastern Siberia
Archaeology · Context (archaeology · Geography · Hearth · Middle Paleolithic · Pleistocene · Upper Paleolithic · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies · Indigenous Studies and Ecology · Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology · Geology · Paleontology
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Variation of Lithic Assemblages and Lithic Technologies at Late Upper Paleolithic Horizons 6–2Б of Kovrizhka IV, the Lower Vitim
Ocher in Late Paleolithic Contexts at the Kovrizhka IV Site, the Baikal-Patom Highlands (Eastern Siberia, Russia)
Excavations at Kovrizhka IV site and its bearing on research of the Late Upper Paleolithic and human adaptation to the environment of last glacial maximum in Baikal-Patom Highlands, Siberia
Newly Discovered Remains of a Late Upper Paleolithic Dwelling in the Northern Baikal Area
| Citations per year | 0.83 |
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| Citation span | 2020 - 2026 (7) |
| Highly cited | No |