[Bonetools] chalcolithic tools made from mandibles

[Selena Vitezovic]

Thank you!
s.

On 20 May 2011 17:32, Katherine M. Moore <kmmoore at sas.upenn.edu> wrote:

> Dear Selena:
>
> I am working on early village sites from Bolivia! so there is no direct
> connection with your pieces. But I have many similar items to the cattle
> mandible you show here: they form a broad scraper when the ascending ramus
> is cut off. On the pieces from these Formative sites, the wear traces are
> coarse and deep, suggesting a hard material; I think they may be for forming
> and finishing pottery. On the Bolivian tools, the pieces were used with the
> teeth (in this case, llama teeth) still in the aveolus.
>
> I hope this may give you some ideas about how people approached this bone.
>
> best,
>
> Kate Moore
>
>
>
>
>
> Quoting Selena Vitezovic <selenavitezovic at gmail.com>:
>
>  Dear colleagues,
>>
>> I have two strange artefactst from the site Bubanj in southeastern Serbia,
>> Chalcolithic period, one made from cattle manible, the other from sheep
>> manidble. Both pieces show intensive traces of use - cattle mandible looks
>> like it was used for polishing, sheep manidble has two gouges as if
>> something was attached and hanging. Unfortunately, both objects are
>> fragmented. I suppose these are some ad hoc, expedient tools, since I do
>> not
>> have any other objects made from mandibles, and no traces of shaping
>> (cutting, grinding) could have been observed. But, perhaps someone has
>> some
>> ideas about their use and possible analogies?
>>
>> Thank you!!!
>>
>> best, selena
>>
>>
>
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