[Bonetools] Worked Dog and Fox Bone?

[Noelle PROVENZANO]

Hello

To supplement what has just said Alice I can add that dog bones are also
used in Italian Bronze Age: ulna for point and tibia for flute.
Nevertheless, they are never in very great quantity.
Best
Noëlle
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> Dear Tina,
>       Useof Dog/Wolf/fox bone for artifacts is very culture specific. For
> example, during the Bronze Age in Hungary dog bone (chiefly ulna and
> fibula) as a raw material for tools is only found in eastern Hungary. 
> However,
> their  canines and metapodials (with hare metapodials) are universally
> drilled and used as pendants in in whole region in the same period. Dog
> astragali are drilled and used as amulets in later prehistoric periods 
> into
> historic times in Mongolia. In the Migration period (in Hungary AD 
> 450-900)
> in Hungary dog and hare metapodials are again drilled as amulets,
> especially among Avar groups.
>    In Hungary, dog bone is never used (except for canine teeth) in 
> Neolithic
> or Iron age, Roman or Medieval contexts. However, dog metapodials are
> drilled in Swiss Neolithic Cortaillod contexts.
>     Someof the missing dog bone may be taphonomic, simply not picked up
> where excavation techniques are not fine enough. However, dog is also a
> funny animalwith a unique relationship amongthe domestic animals to
> humans. Thus, they either seem to be very important for amulets in
> particular or totally ignored.
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> Alice
>
>
>
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