Early Upper Paleolithic Serpentine Ornaments from Ust-Karakol, Northwestern Altai

Fedorchenko, A.Yu.; Белоусова, Н. Е.; Кулик, Н.А.; Shunkov, M. V.

doi:10.17746/1563-0110.2020.48.1.003-015

Arheol. ètnogr. antropol. Evrazii

2020

DOI: 10.17746/1563-0110.2020.48.1.003-015

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Early Upper Paleolithic Serpentine Ornaments from Ust-Karakol, Northwestern Altai

A.Yu. Fedorchenko

Н. Е. Белоусова

Н.А. Кулик

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“…The application of detailed spectroscopic, microscopic and rugosimetric analyses to the pendant allowed us to document in detail the origin, manufacture and use of the artifact. Although personal ornamentation is welldocumented from the Upper Paleolithic of the region 40,[45][46][47] , the pendant is unique in terms of raw material and shape within the regional record. What led to such personal ornamentation diversification in the region is unclear.…”

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Symbolic innovation at the onset of the Upper Paleolithic in Eurasia shown by the personal ornaments from Tolbor-21 (Mongolia)

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Figurative depictions in art first occur ca. 50,000 years ago in Europe, Africa, and Southeast Asia. Considered by most as an advanced form of symbolic behavior, they are restricted to our species. Here, we report a piece of ornament interpreted as a phallus-like representation. It was found in a 42,000 ca.-year-old Upper Paleolithic archaeological layer at the open-air archaeological site of Tolbor-21, in Mongolia. Mineralogical, microscopic, and rugosimetric analyses points toward the allochthonous origin of the pendant and a complex functional history. Three-dimensional phallic pendants are unknown in the Paleolithic record, and this discovery predates the earliest known sexed anthropomorphic representation. It attests that hunter-gatherer communities used sex anatomical attributes as symbols at a very early stage of their dispersal in the region. The pendant was produced during a period that overlaps with age estimates for early introgression events between Homo sapiens and Denisovans, and in a region where such encounters are plausible.

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Symbolic innovation at the onset of the Upper Paleolithic in Eurasia shown by the personal ornaments from Tolbor-21 (Mongolia)

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Rybin

Khatsenovich

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Early Upper Paleolithic Serpentine Ornaments from Ust-Karakol, Northwestern Altai

Cited by 7 publications

References 1 publication

Symbolic innovation at the onset of the Upper Paleolithic in Eurasia shown by the personal ornaments from Tolbor-21 (Mongolia)

Symbolic innovation at the onset of the Upper Paleolithic in Eurasia shown by the personal ornaments from Tolbor-21 (Mongolia)

Lithic technology, cultural development, and human interaction: Reevaluation of flake tool assemblages in North China during MIS 3

A taste for the unusual. Green, flat pebbles used by late Neanderthals

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