[Bonetools] Lepus and Bone Tools

Sat Feb 28 02:28:14 CET 2015

Dear Karin,

In the assemblage I've analysed for my MA thesis (technological and
use-wear traces on bone and antler beads) I have some simple tube-shaped
beads which could have been made of shafts of hares and/or rabbits.

These beads originate from a sepulchral context and date to the Early
Bronze Age in Poland (the site has been radiocarbon dated: 2026-1746 BC).

Currently, I'm analysing a much bigger assemblage but from a similar
context and I suspect that some of the bones are hare/rabbit bones. These
are again tube-shaped beads and also something that looks like
semi-products - only shafts with broken off epiphyses. I'm planning to do a
DNA testing on some of the material, we've done that with 2 samples form
the previous assemblage but it was inconclusive although the specialist
suggested that there is a possibility that one of the beads could have been
made of an *Oryctolagus cuniculus* bone (97% homology).

I hope this helps.

Best regards,
Kinga Winnicka
(University of Wroclaw, Poland)

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> From: "cobecker" <cobecker at zedat.fu-berlin.de>
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> Dear R?mi! I asked one of my colleagues, specialised in Eurasian
> archaeology and perfect in the Russian language: prokolka = Knochenspitze,
> shilo = Pfriem. She could not tell me more specific meanings. Greetings
> Yours Cornelia
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> Dear all,
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> I am translating a (Neolithic) archaeological report from Russian to
> English and I get some difficulties with two bone pointed tools-related
> terms: ???????? (prokolka) and ???? (shilo).
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> >From the text it seems that prokolka has (part of) the epiphysis left on
> at one end, whereas the shilo seems to have both ends sharpened. Should I
> use "awl" for both or do you have any suggestion for a differentiated
> translation ? (Unfortunately I don't have illustration of what is
> considered as prokolka or shilo in the text).
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> Many thanks in advance
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> From: Nerissa Russell <nr29 at cornell.edu>
> To: "bonetools at listserv.niif.hu" <bonetools at listserv.niif.hu>
> Subject: Re: [Bonetools] Lepus and Bone Tools
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> At ?atalh?y?k (Neolithic Turkey), they occasionally made simple beads from
> segments of hare long bones, judging from a radius and a humerus piece that
> remained as waste.
>
> Nerissa Russell
> Professor
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> From: Karin Scott <kayscott at mweb.co.za<mailto:kayscott at mweb.co.za>>
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> bonetools at listserv.niif.hu<mailto:bonetools at listserv.niif.hu>>
> Subject: [Bonetools] Lepus and Bone Tools
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> Dear List
>
> Thank you to Alice for adding me.
> I am an Archaeozoologist based in South Africa.  I am currently doing my
> Masters in comparative osteology and osteomorphology of the two hare
> species of southern Africa Lepus capensis (Cape hare) and Lepus saxatilis
> (scrub hare) .
> Hares remains are found on almost all archaeological faunal assemblages
> here although the NISP/MNI numbers vary greatly.  As part of my osteology
> research I look at the archaeological and ethnological record to try and
> explain their presence on site.  I found a very short note in an article
> that hare/rabbit bones were used by native Americans to make bone tools.
> It made me wonder if the same happened here with the hare bones.  Hares
> were also used in traditional medicine and possibly for other items such as
> clothing.
> I would appreciate any references and/or articles that relate to the use
> of hares (whole, part, or bones) worldwide that can give me a starting
> point for investigations or speculations as to why they are always present
> on sites.  That is, of course, in addition to forming part of the diet.
> I thank you in advance for your assistance.
>
> Kind regards
>
> Karin
> Never argue with a dragon
> For thou art crunchy
> and goes well with cheese
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> From: "Griffitts, Janet L - (griffitt)" <griffitt at email.arizona.edu>
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> In the southwestern US we find jackrabbit (Lepus sp.) bones made into
> awls, beads, tubes, tinklers (or what is interpretted as such), and
> occasionally other tools, ornaments, or other artifacts. In my limited
> experience it seems like there's a bit more variety in form in the Four
> Corners area (the Basketmaker, Anasazi/Ancestral Pueblo area) compared to
> Southern Arizona (Hohokam area), but that might be a matter of preservation
> and sample size.  Here in the Sonora Desert, in the Hohokam area leporids
> tend to make up the majority of the faunal bone in archaeological sites so
> it isn't surprising that folks would have made tools from the rabbits and
> jackrabbits whenever it was practical.  It isn't too uncommon to find that
> the only artiodactyl bone present will have been made into tools and
> usually artiodactyl bone is overrepresented in the bone tools compared to
> the overall faunal assemblage.
>
> Jackrabbit tools and ornaments are also present in the Plains, but as a
> generalization I don't think they usually make up as large a proportion in
> the overall bone artifact assemblage in the Plains as in the southwest, at
> least not in sites that have a lot of bison bone.  That's a gross
> generalization and I'm sure there are a lot of exceptions, but this is my
> overall impression from working a bit in the 4 Corners, S. Arizona, and
> Plains.
> Hope this helps
>
> +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> Jan Griffitts
> Visiting Scholar
> Dept. of Anthropology,
> Tucson,Arizona
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> From: Bonetools [bonetools-bounces at listserv.niif.hu] on behalf of Karin
> Scott [kayscott at mweb.co.za]
> Sent: Tuesday, February 24, 2015 3:13 AM
> To: bonetools at listserv.niif.hu
> Subject: [Bonetools] Lepus and Bone Tools
>
> Dear List
>
> Thank you to Alice for adding me.
> I am an Archaeozoologist based in South Africa.  I am currently doing my
> Masters in comparative osteology and osteomorphology of the two hare
> species of southern Africa Lepus capensis (Cape hare) and Lepus saxatilis
> (scrub hare) .
> Hares remains are found on almost all archaeological faunal assemblages
> here although the NISP/MNI numbers vary greatly.  As part of my osteology
> research I look at the archaeological and ethnological record to try and
> explain their presence on site.  I found a very short note in an article
> that hare/rabbit bones were used by native Americans to make bone tools.
> It made me wonder if the same happened here with the hare bones.  Hares
> were also used in traditional medicine and possibly for other items such as
> clothing.
> I would appreciate any references and/or articles that relate to the use
> of hares (whole, part, or bones) worldwide that can give me a starting
> point for investigations or speculations as to why they are always present
> on sites.  That is, of course, in addition to forming part of the diet.
> I thank you in advance for your assistance.
>
> Kind regards
>
> Karin
> Never argue with a dragon
> For thou art crunchy
> and goes well with cheese
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