[Bonetools] early neolithic bone tools

[Selena Vitezovic]

Big thanx, merci beacoup, vielen Dank to everyone.
All the comments were really helpful.
Isabelle, I'd be very grateful if you can give me your papers in pdf, I am
not sure I will be able to find them in Belgrade.
Jesper, do you know if any of those were published? I have encounter several
notes on them, but never actually saw any decent photo.

best, Selena

On 3 February 2010 13:25, Jesper Ostergaard <jesperostergaard at yahoo.com>wrote:

> 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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