[Bonetools] antler artefact

Mon May 5 21:41:15 CEST 2014

Dear Alice (and all the others, of course),

I finally found some references for the strange antler artefact. It seems,
that they are not very common, but already known from several sites of
this period. I send you two references from eastern austria- maybe it is
of interest to some of you.
On might be an unfinished specimen, or just a not very elaborated version
of this type of artefact. The other artefact from Stillfried a. d. March
fits quite well, I think...

All the best
Herbert

p.s.: Yes Alice, I think you are completely right. In this context it
would also be interesting to interrelate the bone-tools and their
production to other raw materials (wood, metal,...) and aspects of
craftmanship of this period.

On Mi, 30.04.2014, 16:45, Alice Choyke wrote:
> 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
>> >> VIAS-Vienna Institute for Archaeological Science
>> >> Archaeozoology
>> >> c/o Department of Palaeontology
>> >> University of Vienna - UZA II/Geozentrum
>> >> Althanstrasse 14
>> >> A-1090 Wien Österreich
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>> >>
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>> Archaeozoology
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>> University of Vienna - UZA II/Geozentrum
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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
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