Object type
pendant
Culture/period
Prehistory
Materials
dentin
Technique
openwork
Mint
Production date
-22000 / -20000
Museum
Museu Arqueològic Comarcal de Banyoles
Current location
Archaeological site
Cova del Reclau Viver
Township
Serinyà
Dimensions
36 - 31 mm
Description
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Polished lynx tusks, used as a personal ornament. The orifice, always located at the root of the tooth, was made with the help of a flint perforator.
The Caves of the Reclau de Serinyà have provided a significant number of Upper Palaeolithic adornments. In addition to the lynx tusks, pendants made with fox and deer teeth have also been documented. Most common were ornaments made of sea shells (conical shells, periwinkles, ...). Particularly noteworthy is the find of more than 2,500 specimens - most of them perforated - of Homalopoma sanguineum, a small gastropod that lives in the Mediterranean and is characterized, as its scientific name indicates, by an intense reddish colour.
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Omeka ID
3547