[Bonetools] (Fwd) [ZOOARCH] Prehistoric antler cheek-pieces

[Noelle PROVENZANO]

The antler cheek pieces are relatively well known in North Italian Middle 
Bronze Age (Terramare Culture). We have approximately 50 bits belonging all 
to the MB. Many comes from old excavations and we can't give a more precise 
chronology. The only cheekpieces resulting from recent excavations belong 
all to the BM3 (BM3 = end of the Italian Middle Bronze Age = around 
1400/1350 BC). In the fact, I think that antler cheekpieces appear before, 
but for the moment we don't have any irrefutable proof. Thereafter, the 
continuous presence of antler cheekpieces being attested during Italian Late 
Bronze Age.

To know the types, several of these Italian material have been published in 
:

- Woytowitsch 1978 - Die Wagen der Bronze - und frühen Eisenzeit in Italien, 
Prähisoriche Bronzefünde (München), 1978, Abt.. XVII, band 1, 133 p., 61 pl.

- Hüttel 1981 -  Bronzezeitliche Trensen in Mittel- und Osteuropa, Prähist. 
Bronzefünde (München), 1981, vol. XVI, n° 2, pp. 1-209, 50 taf.

- Provenzano 1997 -  Produzione in osso e corno delle terramare emiliane, 
in: M. Bernabò Brea, A. Cardarelli & M. Cremaschi (Dir.), Le Terramare. La 
più antica civiltà padana, Milano, Electa, 1997, pp. 524-544, 6 fig.


The most recent discoveries where the cheekpieces were found in context BM3 
unfortunately are not published yet. Afflicted, it's my fault, I have a 
light delay in my publications....

I can add that, for the moment, the few rare bits known on the French 
territory belong all to an advanced Late Bronze Age.

Noëlle



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Noëlle Provenzano
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Some Late Bronze Age cheek-pieces made of antler are known from Baltic 
countries:
>From Estonia seven antler cheek-pieces are known: three complete and two 
>fragmentary pieces from Asva (two of them are on the added photo), one from 
>Iru (both are fortified settlements) and one fragment from the stone cist 
>grave of Proosa. Some fragments of cheek-pieces of similar shape have been 
>found also in Latvia, e.g. Brikuli and Mukukalns, and Lithuania, e.g. 
>Petresiunai.
Best wishes,
Heidi



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> I am also curious what other bridle-cheek pieces and strap-dividers exist
> outside the Carpathian Basin in the (Middle) Bronze Age.
>
> Alice
>
>
>
> Reply-To:     Marcus Brittain mb654 at HERMES.CAM.AC.UK
> Sender:       Analysis of animal remains from archaeological sites
> From:         Marcus Brittain mb654 at HERMES.CAM.AC.UK
> Subject: [ZOOARCH] Prehistoric antler cheek-pieces
> To:           ZOOARCH at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
>
>
>
> Dear colleagues,
>
> having just completed a brief report on two Late Bronze Age antler cheek
> pieces found during excavations at Flag Fen, Cambridgeshire, I have begun
> to compile an inventory of antler cheek pieces from British Neolithic
> through to Iron Age contexts.
> Pieces known from Britain up to 1976 were published in: Britnell, W.
> (1976) Antler Cheekpieces of the British Late Bronze Age. The Antiquaries
> Journal  56: 24-34.
> With the exception of Runnemede and Poulton, I would be very interested to
> know if anyone has come across any additional cheek pieces. Whilst I am
> starting with British examples, I am also open to any direction with other
> European examples.
> The Flag Fen cheek-pieces will be published in a monograph in 2008, but I
> can send a photo should anyone be interested.
>
> Many thanks for you help,
> Kind regards,
> Marcus Brittain
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