[Bonetools] early neolithic bone tools

[SIDERA Isabelle]

Dear Selena,

The artefacts presented are very interesting.
The perforated piece of antler is a common artifact of the European  
Young Neolithic or Early Chalcolithic (see Michelsberg, Chasséen,  
even Karanovo V and VI and Cucuteni may be). I never met one of these  
type of pieces in Early Neolithic You will find some information in  
these réferences :

  2000 Sidéra I., Animaux domestiques, bêtes sauvages et objets en  
matières animales du Rubané au Michelsberg. De l'économie aux  
symboles, des techniques à la culture. Gallia Préhistoire, 42, pp.  
108-194.

1998, Sidéra I., Rapport d'étude de l'assemblage osseux de Drama  
(Bulgarie). Bericht der Römisch-Germanischen Kommission, 77, pp.  
120-129.

The antler pointed tool looks like a human figurine. There is a  
culture in France called " Cerny" (Middle/Young Neolithic in which  
figurine pointed tools of a close type as yours are often found but  
not only in toumbs. On these tools, like may be on the one you  
present, there is is an interesting fusion of symbolism and material  
function. I recently published a paper about that point:

2001 Sidéra I., Domestic and funerary bone, antler and tooth objects  
in the Neolithic of western Europe : a comparison. In : Crafting  
bone : Skeletal Technologies through Time and Space, Choyke A.M. &  
Bartosiewicz L. eds, British Archaeological Reports, IS 937, Oxford,  
pp. 221-229.

2009 Sidéra I. – Figurines et outils anthropomorphes en os du  
Néolithique danubien,  Archeo-Situla 28-29, 2008-2009, pp. 13-27.

I have no id on the phalanx.

I give you here some references, but if you like, I can load for you  
all the papres on the web, so that you will be able to have them.

Best, I. Sidéra


Le 2 févr. 10 à 19:47, Selena Vitezovic a écrit :

> 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 <stc 205_SDC14765_2.jpg><stc 246_SDC15318.JPG><stc  
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