[Bonetools] bear bone tools

[Jörg Schibler]

Dear Jørn,
in the Swiss Neolithic lakeshore sites chisels or points made of brown bear bones (mostly ulna or radius) are well known. They are not very frequently but regularly found. Some publications:
Schibler, Jörg/Hüster-Plogmann, Heidemarie/Jacomet, Stefanie/ Brombacher, Christoph/Gross-Klee, Eduard/Rast-Eicher, Antoinette. Ökonomie und Ökologie neolithischer und bronzezeitlicher Ufersiedlungen am Zürichsee. Ergebnisse der Ausgrabungen Mozartstrasse, Kanalisationssanierung Seefeld, AKAD/Pressehaus und Mythenschloss in Zürich. Monographien der Kantonsarchäologie Zürich, Bd. 20. Zürich 1997.
Deschler-Erb, Sabine/Marti-Grädel, Elisabeth/Schibler, Jörg. Die Knochen-, Zahn- und Geweihartefakte. In: A. de Capitani, S. Deschler-Erb, U. Leuzinger, E. Marti-Grädel und J. Schibler, Die jungsteinzeitliche Seeufersiedlung Arbon / Bleiche 3: Funde. Archäologie im Thurgau 11, 2002, 277-366.
Schibler, Jörg (2013). Bone and antler artefacts in wetland sites. The Oxford Handbook of Wetland Archaeology, Oxford, 329-345.

Am 06.12.2017 um 10:57 schrieb Abone <abone at planet.nl<mailto:abone at planet.nl>>:

Dear colleagues,

A few weeks ago I posted a message on ZooArch about  three bone artifacts that were found in an arable field in the northwestern part of the Netherlands. Below this field there is a late Neolithic site, of which a small part was excavated in the 70’s of the last century. All three artifacts are made of ulnae (two right and one left) of brown bear (Ursus arctos). Two of them are chisel-like tools, one looks more like a piercer. As far as I know, they are unique for the Netherlands; normally these kind of tools are made of bones of deer, cattle, etc.
Alice Choyke and François Lanoë already sent me information about similar finds from Slovenia and the USA. If any of you happens to know more finds, preferably from Europe, I would be very happy to hear about it!

Very best,
Jørn Zeiler


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