[Bonetools] early neolithic bone tools

[Alice Choyke]

Dear Selena - this is a very strange object but obviously made by someone
who knew very well what they were doing and understood the material and its
limitations. I hope someone out ther is going to shed some light on it.

Alice

On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 8:52 PM, Selena Vitezovic
<selenavitezovic at gmail.com>wrote:

> Thanks, mr Greenfield.
>
> Alice, here are some additional photos of the antler. I think that the rose
> was on the broken part, I have also two other bases of shed antlers, with
> similarly cut tines, but without this large portion of beam, and with
> working surface on the antler base.
> Starčevo is also poor with antlers in general - with the exception of sites
> from Iron gates - but then I found almost 20 antler objects from Starčevo in
> Pančevo museum, all very carefully worked.
>
> best, s.
>
> On 2 February 2010 20:14, Alice Choyke <h13017cho at iif.hu> wrote:
>
>> Dear Selena,
>>      The groove on the cattle first phalange appears made with twine but I
>> have never seen anything like it on Koros sites in Hungary or anywhere else
>> for that matter. It is a bit hard to judge the first object. am I right in
>> thinking that one end is a the rose (without the pearling) of a shed antler
>> and then the eye and beze tines with a hole cut perpendicularly thru the
>> beam? What does the cross-section of this object look like. The Koros
>> culture of Hungary is strikingly poor in antler objects of any kind.
>>
>> Best,
>> Alice
>>
>> On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 7:43 PM, Selena Vitezovic <
>> selenavitezovic at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hello everyone,
>>>
>>> Now I have few questions. These objects are from Starčevo culture (Early/
>>> middle Neolithic)  from Starčevo, eponymous site, in Belgrade vicinity (the
>>> phalanx and the antler tool) and from Donja Branjevina in northerns Serbia
>>> (pointed tool).
>>> Has anyone ever seen anything like this before?
>>>
>>> thanx very much,
>>>
>>> regards, Selena
>>>
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