[Bonetools] antler artefact

[Alice Choyke]

Dear Herman,
    Really it mostly shows we need to start paying attention to this
transition period between the more 'modern industrial' type production of
the Romans and medieval periods and the evidently more individual type
production ethos of the Paleolithic though Neolithic and much of the Early
and Middle Bronze Age periods in the Near East and Europe. The New World is
a completely different story.I am not sure how it works in the Indus Valley
and China again presents a very different production progression in very
different time periods.

Alice


On Wed, Apr 30, 2014 at 7:15 AM, Herbert Böhm <herbert.boehm at univie.ac.at>wrote:

> 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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