[Bonetools] Fw: Swiss Lake Dweller mystery object

[Alice Choyke]

Dear Katherine,
     I am glad Francois said to beware of fakes. My first thought was that
whatever this is it is not Neolithic. It is a little too perfectly shaped
and the decoration seems off. However, it would be nice to hear from Swiss
and French colleagues.

Best,
Alice

On Sun, Dec 2, 2018 at 8:32 PM Moore, Katherine M <kmmoore at sas.upenn.edu>
wrote:

> To colleagues on the WBRG list:
>
>
> I would be very interested in your insights on the function of this lovely
> worked piece of bone from Robenhausen, one of thousands of bone tools from
> "lake dweller" sites that were scattered to museums around the world during
> the 19th C.  It is a unique shape in the Penn Museum collection, but we
> have other items in the collection with this same decoration of rows of
> engraved dots filled with some lighter colored material. At first it looked
> like like one element of Turkish spindle whorl, except that the central
> hole is almost unworn and there is no slot for a cross piece. The two holes
> at the ends are smoothed and worn as though a rod or pin ran through them
> to hold something soft. One author in 1928 indicated that a similarly
> shaped but undecorated piece from another Lake Neuchatel site was a "wrist
> guard".
>
>
> I'm hoping that a European colleague will recognize this right away.
>
>
> best,
>
> Kate Moore
>
>
> Katherine M. Moore, Ph.D.
>
> Practice Professor, Department of Anthropology
>
> Undergraduate Chair
>
> Mainwaring Teaching Specialist
> Center for the Analysis of Archaeological Materials
>
> University of Pennsylvania Museum
>
> 3260 South Street
>
> Philadelphia, PA 19104 USA
>
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