[Bonetools] boar tusk tools

Tue Mar 15 14:52:20 CET 2016

Dear Selena,

Michaela Raskova-Zelinkova from Czech republic has a paper about some boar
tusk tools from Unetice culture (manufacturing traces, use-wear analysis):

RAŠKOVÁ ZELINKOVÁ, M. (2009): Nástroje z kančích klů z protoúnětického
pohřebiště v Pavlově. In: J. Peška (ed.), Protoúnětické pohřebiště z
Pavlova. Olomouc: Archeologické centrum Olomouc, 2009. s. 369-381.

It`s in czech and probably not available online, so if you will have some
troubles to find this book, I can do some copy for you. What I know about
the Early Bronze Age in Slovakia - you can meet these types of tools in
Madarovce culture and Nitra group - mostly at cemeteries, less in fortified
settlement. They are very different. More rarely we have them in Ottomany
culture - both with use-wear or/and with perforations. Very interesting is
a big serie of perforated quadrangular pieces from boar tusk (very close to
those described by Alice), from the Nizna Mysla cemetery, Ottomany culture,
in several so-called "graves of wariors", often located in the upper part
of body or chest. If you are be interested, I can send you the list of
publications, where they are showed or sometimes mentioned with very short
*typological* description (for the Early Bronze Age). After the EBA the
number of boar tusk tools decreased.

Best,

Bibiana

2016-03-15 13:14 GMT+01:00 Alice Choyke <choyke at gmail.com>:

> Dear Petar,
>     Here in the Carpathian Basin we also have little *square* plates of
> tusk (2000-1450 BC) that are more some kind of ornamentation or else plates
> for a teeny-tiny baby helmet (joke) as well a very few more elongated
> plates that were attached to something as ornaments or even worn as a
> bracelet.. Beyond the utilitarian scrapers there are also much grander
> pieces of tusk from huge animals that even the most cautious of
> zooarcheologists would have to admit are probably trophies from wild hunted
> boars. I am attaching some articles where these appear plus a couple of
> decorative pieces from the end of the MBA at Százhalombatta-Földvár plus
> one of the simple EBA Bell-Beaker (ca. 2500 BC) scrapers.
>
> Alice
>
> On Tue, Mar 15, 2016 at 12:35 AM, Selena Vitezović <
> selenavitezovic at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Dear Petar, and everyone, thanks a lot for the help!
>> best, selena
>>
>> On 15 March 2016 at 00:31, Petar Zidarov <petar.zidarov at yahoo.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Dear Selena and colleagues,
>>> Thanks for providing titles and information that has escaped my
>>> attention previously!
>>> Now that Alice mentioned that I have prepared something on this topic, I
>>> am sending you a summary and references to some of the modified boar tusks
>>> that have not been mentioned by the list members so far.
>>>
>>> Dear Benjamin,
>>> Just recently, I was explaining to a colleague of mine that a piece of
>>> split boar tusk is not necesserily an evidence for the presence of
>>> boar-tusk helmet beyond the Mycennaean world. However, beyond the attached
>>> list of references, it was not easy for me to find other comparable pieces,
>>> even though I am sure there will be many of them. So, I agree that it is a
>>> good idea to put together an overview or at least a list of references.
>>>
>>> Best regards,
>>> Petar
>>>
>>> --
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>>> Lab of Archaeometry & Experimental Archaeology
>>> Department of Archaeology, New Bulgarian University
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>>>
>>> https://newbulgarian.academia.edu/PetarZidarov
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>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> ------------------------------
>>> *From:* Alice Choyke <choyke at gmail.com>
>>> *To:* "Mailing list for archaeologists of the research group for the
>>> study of object and waste of bone, antler. ivory and horn." <
>>> bonetools at listserv.niif.hu>
>>> *Sent:* Monday, March 14, 2016 8:27 PM
>>> *Subject:* Re: [Bonetools] boar tusk tools
>>>
>>> There are quite a few different kinds of objects made from boar tusk
>>> (wild or domestic - who can tell?) from the Middle Neolithic on in our
>>> region. Some BA tusks were clearly worn as display ornaments and carefully
>>> drilled and re-drilled. Don't forget this is even the period in Anatolia
>>> and Greece where tusk is being used to cover warrior's helmets. I attach
>>> some images from the national Museum in Athens. Petar Zidarov originally
>>> drew my attention to these amazing objects  since he as them at Troy.
>>>
>>> Alice
>>>
>>> On Mon, Mar 14, 2016 at 7:01 PM, Selena Vitezović <
>>> selenavitezovic at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Dear Benjamin,
>>>
>>> Thanks a lot. I have Y. Maigrot's paper and I will check your poster.
>>> By the way, so far I had only few boar tusk tools in both Mesolithic and
>>> Neolithic and this sudden quantity confused me - furthermore, some of them
>>> are clearly from wild boars, which makes it even more peculiar.
>>> best, selena
>>>
>>> On 14 March 2016 at 18:38, <benjamin.marquebielle at yahoo.fr> wrote:
>>>
>>> Dear Selena
>>>
>>> I am submiting a paper (in collaboration with E. Fabre) for the
>>> procedings of Belgrade Meso2015 meeting, about technical and functionnal
>>> research on tools made from wild boar tusks. It concern Mesolithic tools
>>> so, but some elements could interest you (for exemple, we are proposing a
>>> typology of these tools). You can find the poster presented at Belgrade on
>>> my Academia page. More information are in my thesis (on Academia too).
>>>
>>> Concerning precisely Bronze Age split wild boar tusk tools, I'm afraid I
>>> don't have a lot of information... In France, this kind of tools seems to
>>> disapear during Neolithic period. You can fin more information about
>>> Neolithic tools on Y. Maigrot thesis, or, in english, in her paper:
>>> Maigrot, Y. (2001). Technical und functional study of ethnographic (Irian
>>> Jaya, Indonesia) and archaeological (Chalain and Clairvaux, Jura, France,
>>> 30th century BC) tools made from split boar tusk. In:  Beyries, S. et
>>> Pétrequin, P. (dir.), Ethno-archaeology and its transfers : 5th annual
>>> meeting, EAA, Bournemouth, 1999 Oxford, p. 67-80, 20 fig. Don't hesitate to
>>> ask if you want a pdf.
>>>
>>> I am particularly interested in these artefacts. As far as I know, in
>>> France, these tools are unknown before the Early Mesolithic, even if wild
>>> boar is present in older faunal remains. Then, during the Mesolithic, same
>>> type of artefacts is known on a wide area, from Britain to Switzerland and
>>> the use of split wild boar canine is known in North Europe (see E. David
>>> thesis). Then, they seem to disappeared in France during the Neolithic. But
>>> wild boar tusk still used as personal ornement, until Celtic times. I'm
>>> actually looking all information about Pre- and Protohistoric use of wild
>>> boar canine. The idea of a geographical and chronological large synthesis
>>> knocking around my head for a while. It could be a great work in
>>> collaboration, for everyone wants !
>>>
>>> See you and I hope all is well in Belgrade
>>>
>>> Best !
>>>
>>> Marquebielle Benjamin
>>> *Dr associé TRACES-UMR5608*
>>> <http://traces.univ-tlse2.fr/accueil-traces/equipes-de-recherche/equipe-1-societes-et-milieux-des-populations-de-chasseurs-cueilleurs-collecteurs/marquebielle-benjamin-56353.kjsp?RH=Societes_traces>
>>>
>>> *------------------------------------------------------------*
>>> *benjamin.marquebielle at yahoo.fr
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>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> ------------------------------
>>> *De :* Selena Vitezović <selenavitezovic at gmail.com>
>>> *À :* "Mailing list for archaeologists of the research group for the
>>> study of object and waste of bone, antler. ivory and horn." <
>>> bonetools at listserv.niif.hu>
>>> *Envoyé le :* Lundi 14 mars 2016 18h07
>>> *Objet :* [Bonetools] boar tusk tools
>>>
>>> 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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>>> Arheološki institut
>>> www.ai.ac.rs
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*Bibiána Hromadová*

*Archeologický ústav SAV*
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