Let’s groove: attachment techniques of Eurasian elk (Alces alces) tooth pendants at the Late Mesolithic cemetery Yuzhniy Oleniy Ostrov (Lake Onega, Russia)

• Published in: Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences
• Main Authors: Mannermaa, Kristiina, Rainio, Riitta, Girya, Evgeny Yu., Gerasimov, Dmitry V.
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2020
• Subjects: Original Paper; Oleniy; Oleniy Ostrov; Onega; Alces alces; Northwest Russia
• Online Access: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7738352/; https://doi.org/10.1007/s12520-020-01237-5

More than 4300 Eurasian elk (Alces alces) incisors, most of them pendants, were found in 84 burials in the Late Mesolithic cemetery of Yuzhniy Oleniy Ostrov, Northwest Russia. We analysed the manufacture techniques of elk teeth (4014), in the collection of the Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology...