[Bonetools] chalcolithic tools made from mandibles

[Selena Vitezovic]

Dear Alice,
Thanx - this was actually what I wanted to show you in Visegrad, but we did
not have enough time. It is interesting that you have a lot of tools made on
mandibles - since they are almost completely absent here.
Hope you are enjoying your staying in China!
best, s.

On 21 May 2011 17:26, Alice Choyke <h13017cho at iif.hu> wrote:

> Dear Selena,
>     What you probably have are leather thong smoothers - the wear is on the
> oral part of the manidible right - in the area of the P1-2? Sandra Olsen has
> similar tools made on horse mandible. (although the wear is aboral behind
> the M3) and there is no doubt the contact material was hide. She has studied
> them  at high magnification. Her article appeared in the Crafting Bones
> volume. We have many of these tools made on caprine mandibles especially in
> the  Middle Chacolithic. I can send you images once I get back from China.
>
> Cheers!
> Alice
>
> On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 6:58 PM, Selena Vitezovic <
> selenavitezovic at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> 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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