[Bonetools] antler artefact

[Herbert Böhm]

Dear Alice,

Sorry, it means the "urnfield culture/urnenfelderkultur" (approx.
1200/1300-700/800BC).

Karl just mentioned, that he knows such objects from other sites of this
period (e.g. Oberleiserberg/Lower Austria) but the function is completely
unclear. Furthermore, he has never seen such an artefact showing parallel
scratches...mysterious....

All the best
Herbert




On Mi, 30.04.2014, 15:34, Alice Choyke wrote:
> 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
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Mag. Herbert Böhm
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>> Archaeozoology
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>> A-1090 Wien Österreich
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Mag. Herbert Böhm
VIAS-Vienna Institute for Archaeological Science
Archaeozoology
c/o Department of Palaeontology
University of Vienna - UZA II/Geozentrum
Althanstrasse 14
A-1090 Wien Österreich
Tel: ++43-1-4277 40306
Fax: ++43-1-4277 9535
http://vias.univie.ac.at/home/