[Bonetools] worked Pine Marten

[SIDERA Isabelle]

Dear Sarah,
Marten, hedgehog and that kind of small animals mandibulas begin to  
be used and common as beads  in the IIIrd millenium BC and in Bell  
Beaker culture,  in western and central european late Neolithic  
contexts. They are often associated with toumbs. A lot of this  
material is not pulished because nobody really deals with bone  
artefacts of this period. I remember to have seen some in  
publications like Sion (Switzerland), one in Normandy (north-west of  
France). I wonder if they don't exist as well in atlantic France,  
late Neolithic and Bell Beaker (see Joussaume, Laporte). I am pretty  
sure to have seen some in the big swiss sites publications, from  
settlements, see Port-Alban, Zurich, Twann etc. and new late  
neolithic necropolis. There must be more elements which are published.

I can easily be precised on the perforated hedgehog mandibula (see  
below), which is published in Gallia préhistoire 2002, because I did  
it.

Here are some tracks of research to lead your own clue.

I remember this very specific kind of object is still avialable in  
Bronze age.


Wish you fruitly research,

All the best, isabelle Sidéra


Le 15 mars 06 à 13:20, S Viner a écrit :


> Dear all,
>
> I was wondering if anyone could help with information regarding a  
> Pine Marten
> specimen, a photo can be seen at:
> http://www.shef.ac.uk/archaeology/about/zooarchaeology/images.html
>
> This Pine Marten mandible was found at an Iron Age site in Burwell  
> with a large
> hole pierced through it. In addition, a complete Pine Marten  
> skeleton was
> recovered from a Bronze Age ritual site at Babraham road. Can  
> anyone provide
> information about possible ritual use of Pine Marten? Or examples  
> of similar
> objects?
>
> Many thanks for any help,
>
> Sarah.
>
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SIDERA Isabelle
isabelle.sidera at mae.u-paris10.fr



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