[Bonetools] neolithic archer's rings

[Alice Choyke]

Dear Fotis,
    Some of those rings are very suggestive indeed in terms of their
morphology. Rings are a great untouched question - probably because we look
at them and have immediate associations with decorative finger rings. Some
of  the rings you showed could also be closures, or connectors or even (the
antler rings) the tops of container stoppers that are filled with a bone
plug of some sort. We have a number of those objects in our MBA. I guess
though the bottom line is we always have to be careful of assuming that
form equals function. Once there is a hypothesis we must turn to our use
wear people to start to say something about macro-micro traces from contact
and gesture. I myself have learned this the hard way...

Alice


On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 8:56 AM, Fotis Ifantidis <fotisif at gmail.com> wrote:

> Though for years I had the feeling that some of the bone/antler finger
> rings from my study material from Neolithic Dispilio (Greece) could be used
> as archer’s rings, today I am more that certain…
>
> Do you know any (published) examples of Neolithic archer’s rings or a
> general biblio?
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> Best,
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> f.
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