[Bonetools] Location of Barbed Bone and Antler Points

[Selena Vitezovic]

Yes, I think it is. They just turned it upside down probably because they
were not sure what it was. The inscription says "spear head".
Strange enough, in Early Neolithic, I haven't seen one single harpoon, but
they appear again with Late Neolithic.

s.

2011/6/3 Jean-Marc Petillon <petillon at univ-tlse2.fr>

> On your picture of the Vlasac artifacts, could the one on the right be a
> harpoon base? (with lateral spurs and turned upside down)
>
>
>
> Le 02/06/11 16:43, Selena Vitezovic a écrit :
>
>> Hello everyone,
>> hello Vida, I am here :)))
>> Jenn, if you are interested in barbed points only, that there aren't
>> many in the Iron Gates. From Vlasac, only two pieces were published so
>> far; and I am currently working on the assemblage from Kula, where I
>> have also just two pieces. Here are the published pieces from Vlasac,
>> the book is "Vlasac. Mezolitsko naselje u Đerdapu", written by Dragoslav
>> Srejović and Zagorka Letica, published by Srpska akademija nauka i
>> umetnosti, Beograd, 1978.
>> Plain projectile points - unbarbed - are much more common, they occur in
>> Vlasac, Lepenski Vir and other sites in the Iron Gates, but also in
>> Early Neolithic sites such as Donja Branjevina and Starčevo.
>> As to the Romanian side at the Iron Gates, you have publications from
>> Corneliu Beldiman.
>>
>> best, Selena
>>
>>
>> On 1 June 2011 18:09, Jean-Marc Petillon <petillon at univ-tlse2.fr
>> <mailto:petillon at univ-tlse2.fr>> wrote:
>>
>>    I don't know if this is within your geographic/chronological scope,
>>    but there are more than 2,000 antler barbed points in the French and
>>    Spanish Upper Magdalenian (16-14 kyr cal BP). There is one MA
>>    student in Toulouse working on this right now, and for northern
>>    Spain you should speak with Alexandra Silva from Santander
>>    <alexandra_paleo at hotmail.com <http://hotmail.com>>. Many
>>
>>    documents also from the following Azilian (14-12 kyr cal BP), and
>>    for the Mesolithic in southwest Europe see with Benjamin
>>    Marquebielle (PhD student in Toulouse, <benja.mar at wanadoo.fr
>>    <http://wanadoo.fr>>).
>>
>>
>>    Best,
>>
>>    Jean-Marc
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>    Le 01/06/11 11:34, jennrichards at charter.net
>>    <mailto:jennrichards at charter.net> a écrit :
>>
>>
>>        I am currently writing my MA dissertation as a student at Durham
>>        University - Prehistory Dept. While I have collected a large
>>        number of
>>        images of Mesolithic bone and antler barbed points, and have
>>        personally
>>        viewed the collection from Star Carr at Cambridge University, I
>>        would
>>        like to have more images, and would like to view more artefacts.
>>        Does
>>        any member of the list have a suggestion as to museum catalogues,
>>        websites with images, or know the current location of points from
>>        Friesack, Hohen-Viecheln, Duvensee, Mullerup, Vinde-Helsinge,
>>        Zvejnieki
>>        or any other sites with a large number of recovered points?
>>        Thank you so
>>        much for any information,
>>
>>        Jenn Richards
>>        Durham University
>>
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