[Bonetools] worked sheep bones

[Alice Choyke]

Dear Marloes,
    What makes this tricky is that dogs have also been 'working these bones.
Could these be unfinished flutes (except for the strange bone with the wear
down the center? We have many of these latter bone objects, always on radius
and usually on large ungulates but occasionally on capreolus or caprine or
even sus radius. These come from the end of the Middle Bronze Age and
beginning of the Late Bronze Age and are incredibly wide spread - these ar
certainly involved wsomehow in leather processing. My guess in the later
stages of burnishing.  However, yours are much, much later so your specimen
remains enigmatic. In your place I would contact Leiden and Anja who might
be able to look at the wear under high magnification.

Season's greetings to you.

Alice

On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 4:49 PM, Marloes Rijkelijkhuizen <
marloesrijkelijkhuizen at hotmail.com> wrote:

>  Dear all,
>
> I need your help with some sheep bones.
> Some tibias have holes (see photo), one radius has lots of use wear (see
> photo) and a lot of metapodials have similar worked ends (see last 2
> photos).
>
> These are all found in the same excavation in the Netherlands, medieval,
> 8th-10th century AD.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Best, Marloes
>
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