[Bonetools] Re : Late Neolithic (Lengyel culture) tool assemblage

[MARQUEBIELLE Benjamin]

Hello

Maybe a kind of shovel or scraper for digging work ? (example of these tools in 
the attached files, sorry one is in french...)
Best

 Marquebielle Benjamin
doctorant laboratoire TRACES - UMR 5608
5, rue du pont Guilheméry
31000 Toulouse
tel : 06 71 33 61 52
e-mail : benjamin.marquebielle at yahoo.fr





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De : Erika Gal <gal_erika at yahoo.com>
À : Bonetools <bonetools at listserv.niif.hu>
Envoyé le : Mar 2 août 2011, 13h 27min 30s
Objet : [Bonetools] Late Neolithic (Lengyel culture) tool assemblage


Dear Colleagues,
 We have recently  come across an interesting "tool-assemblage" from Late 
Neolithic  (Lengyel culture) graves from Southern Hungary. It is a red deer 
antler  stick (usually about 35-45 cm long) and  an aurochs (or cattle) 
scapula-fragment. The stick is placed on the scapula as you may see on the 
attached picture. The edges of the articulation surface and the collumof scapula 
shows hand-polish, and the originally broken surface is also rounded and 
polished in some degree. These two artefacts are placed behind the back of the 
buried person (so far only men), together with other utensils from bone and  
stone. Nevertheless, our colleague who studies the household remains  from the 
same site, founds more and more such kind of scapula-tools. This would  suggest 
that it is a more frequent and ordinary type as we initially  thought. However, 
we still think that the antler stick and scapula found in  graves would form a 
tool assemblage together, and wondering if some of  you have already met similar 
finds, know their role or significance, or any parallels. Thank you for  your 
comments and suggestions in advance!

With best wishes,
Erika Gal
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