nscArchaeology, Ethnology & Anthropology of EurasiaАрхеология, этнография и антропология Евразии1563-0110IAET SB RAS10.17746/1563-0110.2022.50.1.048-056nsc-1388Research ArticlePALEOENVIRONMENT. THE STONE AGEПАЛЕОЭКОЛОГИЯ. КАМЕННЫЙ ВЕКOrnaments Made from Unio Shells in a Neolithic Burial at Ust-Aleika-5, Barnaul, Southwestern SiberiaBorodaevV. B.

Molodezhnaya 55, Barnaul, 656031, Russia

KiryushinK. Y.

Pr. Lenina 61, Barnaul, 656049, Russia

kirill-kirushin@mail.ruKuzmenkinD. V.

Nikitina 111, Barnaul, 656043, Russia

kuzmenckin@yandex.ruSolodovnikovK. N.

Malygina 86, Tyumen, 625026, Russia

solodk@list.ruAltai State Pedagogical UniversityRussian FederationAltai State UniversityRussian FederationTigirek State Natural ReserveRussian FederationInstitute of Northern Development, Tyumen Scientifi c Center, Siberian Branch, Russian Academy of SciencesRussian Federation2022030420225014856Copyright © Borodaev V.B., Kiryushin K.Y., Kuzmenkin D.V., Solodovnikov K.N., 20222022Borodaev V.B., Kiryushin K.Y., Kuzmenkin D.V., Solodovnikov K.N.Borodaev V.B., Kiryushin K.Y., Kuzmenkin D.V., Solodovnikov K.N.Данная работа распространяется под лицензией Creative Commons Attribution 4.0.This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.https://journal.archaeology.nsc.ru/jour/article/view/1388

The search for a Mongolian era cemetery at Ust-Aleika, Kalmansky District, Altai Territory, in 1982 revealed a Neolithic child burial, which was excavated. The funerary items included over 300 artifacts made of organic and inorganic materials, among them more than a hundred pendants made from fossil Pleistocene shells of Unio mollusks, which do not occur in the Ob basin at present. These thick-walled shells had been procured from the Kalistratikha I exposure on the left bank of the Ob. The pendants had been made according to a hitherto unknown technique: they are irregularly ellipsoid with segment-shaped longitudinal and transverse sections. The thickness of the shells allowed the artisans to use relief, which is diffi cult or impossible with shells of modern bivalves from the Upper Ob basin. Burial 2 at Ust-Aleika-2 dates to the middle or late 4th millennium BC. It belongs to the same cultural and chronological group as burials 1 and 5–9 at Solontsy-5, and a double burial at Bolshoi Mys (Itkul), excavated by V.I. Molodin in 1976.

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