[Bonetools] neolithic spoon

[Selena Vitezović]

Dear Marloes,

These are quite common for the Turkish and South-east Europe Neoltithic,
especially Early/Middle, although in Bulgaria you may find them throughout
Chalcolithic as well (on central Balkans they are different from Later
Neolithic onwards). They vary very much in dimensions and in ratio
handle:spoon part; as they are in most cases from Bos metapodials, they can
be quite large, as Christian says (there is an enourmous one on permanent
exhibition in Istanbul's Archaeological museum), but some of them can even
be quite small (I found recently on an Early Neolithic site in Bulgaria one
really, really tiny example).
Here are some references attached for SE Europe (the ones I have in pdf,
but there are many more), but you may also try to find paper by John
Nandris in Bulletin of the Institute of Archaeology, London, vol. 10/1972:
Bos primigenius and the bone spoon, and Corneliu Beldiman's PhD thesis for
examples from Criş culture. Mellaart published few nice pieces from Çatal
Hüyük and Hacılar in Anatolian studies (vols. 11/1961, 14/1964).
Also, if you have Fiches typologiques, volume VI, check it out.
I also had a poster on spoons from Starčevo in Salzburg, if you remember
it.
If you need any more references, let me know, I have most of the things
here cited in paper.

I would also like to know where does your piece come from?

best regards, Selena

On 15 February 2015 at 23:50, Consuelo Mata Parreño <
consuelo.mata at icloud.com> wrote:

> And there are too bones spoons in the Spanish Neolithic. Specially in Cova
> de L' Or and Cova de les Cendres. The first are in the Museo de Prehistoria
> de Valencia and the second at MARQ (Alicante).
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> El 15/2/2015, a las 22:21, Christian Küchelmann <info at knochenarbeit.de>
> escribió:
>
> Dear Marloes,
>
> there are many of these spoons in neolithic Turkish sites. We had about
> two dozens of them in the last years campaign at Cukurici Höyük and I have
> seen also recently excavated examples from Barcin Höyük. However, I do not
> know any published examples at present although I am sure there must be
> some. The complete spoons were rather long, more than 20 cm sometimes.
> Where is that find from?
>
> Best
>
> Christian
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> Am 15.02.2015 um 20:09 schrieb Marloes:
>
> Dear all,
>
> Does someone has parallells or references for neolithic bone spoons like
> these (4361±33 BP)
>
> Thanks in advance!
>
> Marloes
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Selena Vitezović
Arheološki institut
www.ai.ac.rs
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