[Bonetools] Fwd: Neolithic artefacts

[Alice Choyke]

Dear colleagues,
     I am forwarding this message to the mailing list because Olivier is
having trouble contacting the list directly. We are working on a solution.
In the meanwhile - if any of you have insights into his query could you
write back to the list as well as to Olivier directly?

Best,
Alice

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From: PUTELAT Olivier <olivier.putelat at archeologie.alsace>
Date: Mon, Jan 14, 2019 at 6:07 PM
Subject: [Bonetools] Neolithic artefacts
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>


*Objet :* Neolithic artefacts

Dear colleagues, I wish you a happy new year.

I write in hopes that you may be able to lend me a hand in analysing some
recently excavated Neolithic bone artefacts.

In 2016, excavations at Holtzheim (15 km west of Strasbourg, Alsace,
France) turned up a human double-burial in a silo-pit (n° 1129), dated to
the recent Neolithic, the ‘Munzingen’ period, around 3700 BCE. A dog
skeleton was associated with the burial, individual 2 especially.

 A ceramic vase was also found above the left shoulder of individual 2. In
contact with the vase, and under the shoulder and forearm of the individual
2, we as well discovered three bone artifacts (fig. 1129-OTR).



 Object 01655-OTR-1129-1 was made from a bovid metacarpal and has a
rectangular shape (length 203 mm). The dorsal surface of the metacarpal is
polished and well preserved throughout its length. Two holes were drilled
through proximal epiphysis. The medial and lateral sides of the bone were
detached when the object was manufactured. This is also the case for most
of the palmar surface, of which only the distal quarter is still
represented. The inner portion of the dorsal surface is polished on its
proximal three quarters.



 Objects 01655-OTR-1129-2 and 01655-OTR-1129-3 were manufactured from an
ulna and a bird's radius. The bird in question was probably a ‘Cygne de
Bewick’ (Whistling Swan, *Cygnus bewickii*). The epiphyses have been
separated from the diaphyses.



I wonder do you know of similar deposits? And how would you interpret the
function of these objects?

Many thanks in advance for your help.

Best regards, Olivier.





Olivier PUTELAT

*ARCHEOLOGIE ALSACE* (PAIR)

*Service d'Archéologie et Recherches Scientifiques - Laboratoire de
Bio-Archéologie - *Archéozoologue

Dr.  Chercheur associé à l’UMR 7041 - Archéologies environnementales -
Maison de l'Archéologie et de l'Ethnologie, Nanterre



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