[Bonetools] worked Pine Marten

[mizhilin]

Dear Sarah,
Worked pine marten teeth were used for making pendants in the Mesolithic and Neolithic of the East European forest zone. Visit my website: mizhilin.narod.ru
One pine marten mandible with a fang, sharpened by polishing with a fine grained slab comes from my excavations of a late Mesolithic site on Upper Volga.

With the best regards,
Mikhail Zhilin

>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 prhistoire 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 Sidra
>
>
>Le 15 mars 06  13:20, S Viner a crit :
>
>
>> 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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