{"id":5020,"date":"2018-10-28T21:34:42","date_gmt":"2018-10-28T17:34:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ra.iaran.ru\/?page_id=5020"},"modified":"2018-12-19T04:45:12","modified_gmt":"2018-12-19T00:45:12","slug":"previously-unknown-type-of-mammoth-tusk-artwork-from-the-avdeevo-site-the-new-dwelling-structure","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.ra.iaran.ru\/?page_id=5020&lang=en","title":{"rendered":"PREVIOUSLY UNKNOWN TYPE OF MAMMOTH TUSK ARTWORK FROM THE AVDEEVO SITE (THE NEW DWELLING STRUCTURE)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Gennady A. Khlopachev 1*,\u00a0 <span style=\"width: 125px; border: thin solid #000000;\">Evgeniya V. Bulochnikova <\/span>2, Olga V. Zmur 1*<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>1 Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography (the Kunstkamera) RAS (MAE RAS), St. Petersburg, Russia<br \/>\n2 Research Institute and Museum of Anthropology of Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russia <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>E-mail: * <a href=\"mailto:gak@kunstkamera.ru?subject=\u041f\u0438\u0441\u044c\u043c\u043e%20\u0441\u0444\u043e\u0440\u043c\u0438\u0440\u043e\u0432\u0430\u043d\u043e%20\u043d\u0430%20\u0441\u0430\u0439\u0442\u0435 &amp;quot;\u0420\u043e\u0441\u0441\u0438\u0439\u0441\u043a\u0430\u044f \u0430\u0440\u0445\u0435\u043e\u043b\u043e\u0433\u0438\u044f&amp;quot;\">gak@kunstkamera.ru<\/a>; <a href=\"mailto:zhmur@kunstkamera.ru?subject=\u041f\u0438\u0441\u044c\u043c\u043e%20\u0441\u0444\u043e\u0440\u043c\u0438\u0440\u043e\u0432\u0430\u043d\u043e%20\u043d\u0430%20\u0441\u0430\u0439\u0442\u0435 &amp;quot;\u0420\u043e\u0441\u0441\u0438\u0439\u0441\u043a\u0430\u044f \u0430\u0440\u0445\u0435\u043e\u043b\u043e\u0433\u0438\u044f&amp;quot;\">zhmur@kunstkamera.ru<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Keywords:<\/strong> the Upper Paleolithic Age, Russian Plain, the Avdeevo site, the Kostenki-Avdeevo culture, a mam-moth tusk artwork, conservation, technical and morphological description.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In 1991, a piece of a mammoth tusk artwork broken down into a large number of fragments was found during the excavation of the \u201cYu\u201d pit dwelling in the area of the new structure of the Upper Paleolithic site Avdeevo (23\u201321 thousand years ago). The artwork was removed from the layer as a monolith. The initial Conservation did not yield the expected result. A new conservation treatment was done in 2010\u20132012 by the Head of the Laboratory for Conservation and Restoration of the MAE\u00a0 RAS\u00a0 Zhmur O.V. in cooperation with\u00a0 the Head of the Department of Archaeology of the MAE RAS Khlopachev G.A. As a result, the object doubled its length and was given the conventional name \u201cThe Baton\u201d It is a 40.6 cm long artifact with a complex sculptural volume in the upper part, which in its lower part smoothly flows into the handle shaped as a massive rod, with a rounded section and sharpened end. Sidewise the sculpture most resembles a zoomorphic or anthropozoomorphic creature. It can equally be perceived as a horse figure, as it is customarily depicted in chess pieces, and as the image of a person standing upright with a disproportionately large head resembling that of a wolf. The size and shape of the \u201cbaton\u201d suggest that it could have been used as a spear-thrower. The archaeological context of the \u201cbaton\u201d\u00a0 discovery indicates a special attitude to it in the ancient time<\/p>\n<p><strong>DOI: <\/strong>10.7868\/S0869606318020022<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gennady A. Khlopachev 1*,\u00a0 Evgeniya V. Bulochnikova 2, Olga V. Zmur 1* 1 Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography (the Kunstkamera) RAS (MAE RAS), St. Petersburg, Russia 2 Research Institute and Museum of Anthropology of Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russia E-mail: * gak@kunstkamera.ru; zhmur@kunstkamera.ru Keywords: the Upper Paleolithic Age, Russian Plain, the Avdeevo [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":4875,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-5020","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ra.iaran.ru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5020","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ra.iaran.ru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ra.iaran.ru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ra.iaran.ru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ra.iaran.ru\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5020"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.ra.iaran.ru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5020\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5145,"href":"http:\/\/www.ra.iaran.ru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5020\/revisions\/5145"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ra.iaran.ru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ra.iaran.ru\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}