[Bonetools] early neolithic bone tools

[Jesper Ostergaard]

Dear Selena
They are very interesting finds.

I've have seen similar objects in museums in Bulgaria.
The "antler piece" are common in the Neolithic /Copper Age in Bulgaria and east Balkans: its an axe or a heavy work tool. The phalanx is a figurine, common for the Copper Age, most of those are made from pig-tarsals. In the case of the pig-tarsal variants (metatarsal III) they are interpreted as anthropomorphic figurines resembling a schematic outline of a face and the upper body of a human. 

Best regards 

Jesper S. Østergaard
Hessensgade 22, 2tv
2300 Copenhagen S
DenmarK


--- On Tue, 2/2/10, Selena Vitezovic <selenavitezovic at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: Selena Vitezovic <selenavitezovic at gmail.com>
> Subject: [Bonetools] early neolithic bone tools
> To: "Mailing list for archaeologists of the research group for the study of object and waste of bone, antler. ivory and horn." <bonetools at listserv.niif.hu>
> Date: Tuesday, February 2, 2010, 7:47 PM
> 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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