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Humanitarian sciences in Siberia

2007 year, number

The Engraving of Mammoth from Mal

Larichev, V.Ye.
Keywords: Siberia, Mal’ta, the Upper Paleolithic Epoch, the engraving of mammoth, symbolic records on it, deciphering of the system of lunar and solar time notation.

Abstract

This article of the astroarchaeological orientation is devoted to deciphering of the image of mammoth and symbolic text impressed upon the plate of mammoth tusk (approximately 24 000 years ago). The author succeeded in re-creating of the lost part of the symbolic records on the right end of the plate, in reconstructing of the system of lunar and solar time notation, as well as in determining of the New Year