[Bonetools] neolithic archer's rings

[Griffitts, Janet L - (griffitt)]

Even in the late 1960s my grandmother used to seek out bone rings to close her handwoven bags!  Attached is a picture of some historic and modern bone tools, including an old bag of commercially made bone rings I found in Grandma's needlework bag (the same company now sells "plastic bone rings").



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Jan Griffitts
Visiting Scholar
Dept. of Anthropology,
Tucson,Arizona

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Subject: Re: [Bonetools] neolithic archer's rings

Another type you might consider that would produce wear is clasps for bags.

Alice


On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 1:56 PM, Fotis Ifantidis <fotisif at gmail.com<mailto:fotisif at gmail.com>> wrote:
Mikhail:
No specialized use wear analysis was applied, it is more the form of some rings that could be ascribed to archer's thumb rings. There are visible major differences between the upper and bottom of some rings (some are more lustruous) while in one case vertical discolorations may be due to the use of arrow? I really cannot tell, it is too tricky.

Isabelle:
Yes, some of them are quite fragile, but the majority of the antler ones are quite robust.
Considering the basket-use, I would expect many more to be found having at least some standarized dimensions.
Aegean bone rings are extremely rare, with Dispilio's assemblage of ca. 70 objects being unique (while all of which appear in the earliest, middle/late neolithic phase and not on the later phases). Though some "types" could be discerned, it seems that each ring is quite different from another: some are easily worn in the index, some could be only for children, that is if all of them were fingerrings, and not simple pendants, hair-adornments or some type of archer's rings.
As you say,  experimentation and use wear analysis  cannot always offer a clear result.


Christian:
thank you for the article

Some more pics are attached


2013/5/13 Christian Küchelmann <info at knochenarbeit.de<mailto:info at knochenarbeit.de>>
Dear Fotis,

the only paper I know dealing with archer's rings is from an archery journal:

Dekker, Peter (2011): Using the Manchu Thumb Ring. – Society for the Promotion of Traditional Archery Newsletter Autumn 2011
online: http://mandarinmansion.com/articles/Using%20Manchu%20thumbrings%20Peter%20Dekker.pdf

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Am 13.05.2013 um 08:56 schrieb Fotis Ifantidis:

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?


Best,

f.


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