[Bonetools] antler object from Iron Gates

[Sandra Olsen]

Dear Selena:
It is a bit early for a cheek piece, probably, but it could be an arrowshaft
straightener/flaker.  The wear around the perforation suggests that it could
have been used to straighten shafts, although not over a very long period of
time.
Do you have any decorated horse phalanges?  I am very interested in finding
out if there are others from Iron Gate and what their ages are.
Cheers,

Sandi
Sandra L. Olsen, Ph.D.
Head of the Section of Anthropology
Carnegie Museum of Natural History
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On 4/28/10 7:08 PM, "Selena Vitezovic" <selenavitezovic at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello everyone, 
> 
> I have - again - a question concerning early and middle Neolithic bone
> objects. This antler piece comes from early Neolithic site Knjepište in Iron
> Gates (near the Iron Gates II hydropowerplant, i. e. downstream of Lepenski
> Vir), and should be of Early Neolithic origin. However, I have never seen
> anything quite like this before - and it does not seem Neolithic to me. All
> these Iron Gates sites also have traces of Roman occupation, and several sites
> in Iron Gates II region have Bronze Age levels as well (Žuto Brdo culture),
> and I think this piece is younger than Early Neolithic (data on stratigraphy
> is scarce). 
> I would really appreciate if anyone could point me to some analogies.
> thanx, Selena 
> 
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