[Bonetools] boar tusk tools

Tue Mar 15 15:31:39 CET 2016

Dear colleagues,
Thanks everyone for comments, replies and in particular pdfs.

Dear Biba,
If it is not too much to ask, I would really appreciate both paper from
Raškova-Zelenikova and the reference list.

best regards, Selena

On 15 March 2016 at 14:52, Biba Hromadova <bibiana.hromadova at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Petar Zidarov
>>>> Lab of Archaeometry & Experimental Archaeology
>>>> Department of Archaeology, New Bulgarian University
>>>> 21 Montevideo Str., Building 2, office 219
>>>> BG-1618 Sofia, BULGARIA
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>>>>
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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
>>>> <benjamin.marquebielle at yahoo.fr>univ-tlse2.academia.edu/BenjaminMarquebielle
>>>> <https://univ-tlse2.academia.edu/BenjaminMarquebielle>*
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> ------------------------------
>>>> *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
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Selena Vitezović
>>>> Arheološki institut
>>>> www.ai.ac.rs
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