[Bonetools] Bone object

[Jörg Schibler]

Am 10.11.2010 14:28, schrieb Leigh Allen:
> Dear Colleagues,
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> I attach a photograph of a rather beautiful bone object recovered from one of our excavations at Didcot, Oxfordshire, if anyone can tell me what it may have been used for I would be most grateful, it came from a Late Roman context. The closest parallel I have found so far are Prehistoric tools for decorating pots although these tend to have teeth at the splayed end and a perforation through the centre.
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Dear Leigh,
these kind of artefacts are well known in the Swiss lake shore 
settlements. They are made of bones but mostly of red deer antler. The 
pointed end is hafted. In eastern Swiss sites there are such tools that 
also have two drilled holes for the fixation of the hafting (wooden 
handle). They normaly are regarded as scrapers perhaps to work hide. I 
attache an example made of bone from a site called Twann at the lake of 
Bienne which is dated to around 3600 BC. The length of the tool is 6 cm.
Best wishes!
Joerg

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Prof. Dr. Jörg Schibler

Institute for Prehistory and Archaeological Science (IPAS)
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