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Article Dans Une Revue Antiquity Année : 2016

Dog molars as personal ornaments in a Kura-Araxes child burial (Kalavan-1, Armenia)

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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.
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Modwene Poulmarc'H, Rozalia Christidou, Adrian Bălășescu, Hala Alarashi, Françoise Le Mort, et al.. Dog molars as personal ornaments in a Kura-Araxes child burial (Kalavan-1, Armenia). Antiquity, 2016, 90 (352), pp.953-972. ⟨10.15184/aqy.2016.132⟩. ⟨hal-01806691⟩
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