[Bonetools] Tooth root a pendent?

[Alice Choyke]

Dear Sabine,
    It looks like a typical dog tooth pendant/bead to me. Most of our BA
dog tooth bead/pendants are drilled closer to the end of the root. Please
don't forget it could also have been sewn on clothing or on bands or strung
on necklaces. What is a little funny is that the manufacturer did not try
to thin the root at all before perforating it as far as I can see. The
surface seems quite eroded. In this period and in your part of the
world,what is the proportion of perforated seal to dog tooth pendant/beads?

Best,
Alice

On Tue, Feb 16, 2016 at 1:36 PM, Sabine Sten <sabine.sten at arkeologi.uu.se>
wrote:

> Dear Bonetools list,
>
> One of our osteology student, Sophia works with a Bronze Age material from
> Gotland in the Baltic sea. The bones are cremated. In one grave, Sophia
> found a tooth root with a drilled hole. The tooth is  fragmented. The dates
> is about 500-1100 BC, Bronze Age. We think it is a tooth root from a dog.
>
> What do we have? A pendent?
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> //Greetings from Sabine
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> Sabine Sten
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> Professor i osteoarkeologi
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> Institutionen för arkeologi och antik historia
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