Dog molars as personal ornaments in a Kura-Araxes child burial (Kalavan-1, Armenia)
| Autor: | Boris Gasparyan, Françoise Le Mort, Christine Chataigner, Hala Alarashi, Modwene Poulmarc'H, Rozalia Christidou, Adrian Bălășescu |
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| Přispěvatelé: | ARCHEORIENT - Environnements et sociétés de l'Orient ancien (Archéorient), Université Lumière - Lyon 2 (UL2)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), National History Museum of Romania, Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography, National Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Armenia [Yerevan] (NAS RA) |
| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2016 |
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Stone tool 010506 paleontology Archeology 060102 archaeology [SHS.ARCHEO]Humanities and Social Sciences/Archaeology and Prehistory General Arts and Humanities Kura-Araxes burial Necklace Ornaments 06 humanities and the arts engineering.material Armenia 01 natural sciences Archaeology Geography perforated dog molar Bronze Age engineering micro- wear analysis Early Bronze Age 0601 history and archaeology 0105 earth and related environmental sciences |
| Zdroj: | Antiquity Antiquity, Antiquity Publications/Cambridge University Press, 2016, 90 (352), pp.953-972. ⟨10.15184/aqy.2016.132⟩ |
| ISSN: | 0003-598X 1745-1744 |
| DOI: | 10.15184/aqy.2016.132⟩ |
| Popis: | International audience; Two perforated dog molars were found directly associated with a Kura-Araxes child burial from the third millennium BC in Armenia. Both teeth show trimming of the root ends and boring of a biconical hole through the lingual root with a hand-held stone tool. Expedient manufacture, the anatomical location of the hole and use-wear suggest that the molars were suspended in order to display their crowns as part of a necklace that also included two stone beads. This is an unusual type of personal ornament and the first of its kind reported in the South Caucasus. Its use in a Kura-Araxes burial is interpreted as an active modification of the funerary symbolism during this period. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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