[Bonetools] antler artefact

[Alice Choyke]

Dear Herbert - remind me what the LBA means in lower Austria. In Hungary
there would be a big difference between Urnenfeld or Tummulus sites (I
would call that early Late Bronze Age) and later periods when  society is
morphing into the ever more complex and segmented social situation found on
the large, well known Iron Age sites. The bone tool material from these
later periods is not well known in our area (Hungary) or elsewhere really
and even the early Late Bronze Age has been poorly studied which is a pity.
I have never seen such an object in my early Late Bronze Age materials but
I have seen relatively few pieces beyond double skates and the
characteristic finely drilled holes that start to be produced in this
period.

Alice.


On Wed, Apr 30, 2014 at 3:18 AM, Herbert Böhm <herbert.boehm at univie.ac.at>wrote:

> Dear all,
>
> I received these photographs of a late- bronze- age antler artefact, found
> in lower Austria (settlement context) and I must confess that I haven´t
> seen something like this before…
>
> http://zooarchaeology.ning.com/photo/albums/antler-artefact
>
> Unfortunately, it seems to be fragmented but some of the edges are
> obviously carefully processed and there are these, rather regular,
> transverse “scratches” on the inner surface.
> The eye-catching “groove” on the outer surface seems “natural” to me…
>
> Does anyone know such pieces or have an idea what this could have been
> used for?
>
> All the best
> Herbert
>
>
>
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