[Bonetools] prehistoric fishing implements

[Mihaela Savu]

Dear bonetoolers,

First of all, thank you for adding me to the email list some time ago.

I have recently started my PhD dealing with prehistoric fishing 
implements. The initial focus of my project was limited to the Lower 
Danube and Tisza valleys in the 5^th millennium BC, but recently there 
was a proposition to make it broader, namely to include the entire SE 
Europe from roughly 7000 to 3000 BC. Now, I’ve been consulting the 
publications published on the WBRG website and others written by the 
members of the group, so I know that some of you have experience with 
working with fishing devices corresponding to the area and time frame. I 
will need, therefore, all the advice you are willing to share on how to 
better approach the topic in the new given context.

Also, in my original scheme, I was planning to do some experimental 
work, which involved creating replicas of the bone fishhooks (transverse 
hooks/bipoints included) and antler harpoons, and using them. This was 
thought in the direction of better identifying the producing techniques 
and hopefully getting to distinguish among the actual fishing devices 
and items that were possibly used in other ways (e.g. hunting). I still 
plan to carry this work and I already picked a case study (the 
Neolithic-Chalcolithic site from Pietrele –Măgura Gorgana, Romania), but 
I will need more, hopefully with a similar degree of research. Now, I 
will need to develop a protocol for the experimental work, which I have 
no experience with. So I will be very grateful if you can point to any 
direction in what creating the design is concerned. I want to learn both 
the possible studies that I could run as well as the ethical way to do 
them.

I apologize for the long email and I hope to hear your suggestions and 
critiques related to my topic.

Best regards,

Mihaela Savu

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