[Bonetools] boar tusk tools

[Alice Choyke]

In Hungary we have relatively many bore tusk tools coming from early bronze
age bell-beaker sites around Budapest. All the boar tusk tools from MBA
sites from Hungary that I have seen have certainly been made with stone
tools. Although not often mentioned in official reports, there are in fact
thousands of small chipped stone scrapers on BA sites in Hungary and the
bone tools bear witness to this technological synergy. Metal tools in the
form of chop marks from axes are found early on, on antler heavy duty burr
and beam tools. There also seems to be special use of metal on the
ornamented antler objects typical of the the MBA in Hungary such as bridle
ornaments. I have only seen evidence of the use of metal knives on bone
tools in the early LBA in this region.

Best,
Alice

On Mon, Mar 14, 2016 at 6:07 PM, Selena Vitezović <selenavitezovic at gmail.com
> wrote:

> Dear colleagues,
>
> I am looking for something more detailed on boar tusk tools, in particular
> on technology and typology in the Bronze Age.
> I have from one Bronze Age site in Pannonia. excavated in early 20th
> century, few dozens of boar tusks, mainly fragmented (some with fresh
> breakage, since they are very brittle and are being stored in the museum
> for several decades), therefore it is difficult to distinguish débitage
> from fragmented tools. They usually have traces of scraping on the inner
> surfaces, but I am not able to distinguish the usewear on the enamel (outer
> surfaces). Presumably, most of the tusks were just split and then more-less
> crescent-shaped pieces were used for scraping, however, any help is most
> welcome. In particular, does anyone know any large assemblage of boar tusk
> tools from this period, and has anyone conducted experiments on boar tusks
> to distinguish manufacturing traces made by flint and by bronze tool?
>
> Thanks in advance!
>
> best regards, Selena
>
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> Selena Vitezović
> Arheološki institut
> www.ai.ac.rs
>
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