Abstract: Bone elongated beads are a specific category of personal ornaments, sporadically represented in Eurasia since the Early Upper Palaeolithic (EUP). Here we present the results of the technological and functional analysis of elongated beads from the Upper Paleolithic layer 11 in the Main Chamber of Denisova Cave, (40.0-38.0 ka cal BP), Northwest of the Russian Altai. The technological sequence ofd operations has been reconstructed. It included several stages: selection of blank, planing, manufacture of preform by truncating the epiphyses, ornamenting the preform, marking preforms for fracturing into short tubes, sawing or cutting, fragmentation by cuts, removal of cancellous bone, and smoothing the fracture surfaces.

Cite: Fedorchenko A.Y. , Kozlikin M.B. , Shunkov M.V.
Early Upper Palaeolithic tubular beads from Denisova cave and their closest analogies across Northern Eurasia
International Symposium on Paleoanthropology in Commemoration of the 95th Anniversary of the Discovery of the First Skull of Peking Man 02-04 Dec 2024