[Bonetools] FW: Antler pick!

[Selena Vitezovic]

Hello, Steve,

tell your colleague to check out "Excavations at Grimes Graves, Norfolk,
fasc 1: Neolithic antler picks", by Juliette Clutton-Brock.
These picks look very much the same, judging from the photo.
Similar picks were found in copper mine Rudna Glava from late Vinča culture
in eastern Serbia, that is - similar in shape, but I can't tell anything
about wear traces.
The main difference, however, is that this particular pick of yours/ of your
colleague has really large shaft hole.
But, basically, I think these type of large antler picks are widely known -
as to the association with a burial, perhaps it was used to make it? Or its
pieces were already in deposit and dispersed during the digging of the
burial?
Anyway, if your colleague can come up with some ideas about the use, please
ask her to share them.
best, selena

On 7 April 2010 13:18, <spa105 at york.ac.uk> wrote:

>   Dear all,
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> Here’s that pic of an antler pick.  Not sure why it didn’t attach last
> time; apologies.  Anyone have any thoughts on dates/parallels etc?  Is the
> association with crouched burials paralleled elsewhere?
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> Thanks
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> Steve
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> The attached object was found in several pieces, in two different
> contexts, in the vicinity of a late neo/EBA crouched burial, during the 2009
> season of excavation at Sedgeford, NW Norfolk. The break between the pieces
> from the different contexts is clearly old.
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> Many thanks and best wishes,
>
> Naomi
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