[Bonetools] Neolithic Bone objects

[François Poplin]

Le 22/03/2013 13:03, Heidi Luik a écrit :
> Dear all,
> My colleague Mirja Ots asked me to forward to the list a question 
> about bone objects from the Neolithic site of Tamula. Please send 
> answer to the list and to her e-mail address also.
> Thank you in advance,
> Heidi
>
> From the Tamula settlement site in South Estonia, dated to 3100--1650 
> BC (from the same site burials dating from 4700--3400 BC have been 
> discovered) more than a hundred bone fragments with transverse grooves 
> have been found. The bones are mostly split long bones and the grooves 
> spread in a fan shape. So far archaeologists have suggested that these 
> are artefacts used for straining or spooling cord made from tendons.
> We would be very grateful for any parallels and suggestions about 
> their function.
> Thank you in advance!
> Mirja Ots mirja.ots at tlu.ee <mailto:mirja.ots at tlu.ee>
>
>
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I gave a paper "Deux cas de débitage des matières dures d'origine 
animale" (1974), where I saw (partially) hippo ivory and even enamel 
(ie. a lower canine) with sand and tendon (David's deer), then with sand 
and string. Do you want I send you the paper, and you make a pdf for all 
? It was to reproduce a so sawn tusk from predynastic Egypt kept at the 
Musée des Antiquités nationales (Saint-Grermain-en-Laye).

More in a certain time ; I have something else to send now.

Your's


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François POPLIN

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