[Bonetools] Fw: Swiss Lake Dweller mystery object

[Christopher Arabatzis]

Dear Katherine,

Is this item included in Johnson's thesis about the Robenhausen
osseous artifacts ?
I don't remember an item like that in his thesis

You can also  check the following  article.The authors are dealing
with some similar objects that don't have holes.Maybe the one that you
showed us could be a variation of the ones in the article.

https://journals.openedition.org/rae/9834

Best Regards,
Chris

Στις Κυρ, 2 Δεκ 2018, 9:32 μ.μ. ο χρήστης Moore, Katherine M <
kmmoore at sas.upenn.edu> έγραψε:

> 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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