[Bonetools] bone awls

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Dear Juan Lopez-Padilla,

 

That looks like very interesting information, thank you! I will try to find
the publication.

 

Very best,

Jørn Zeiler

 

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Dear Dr Zeiler

If you check the inventories of the Siret brothers' Argaric grave goods, you
will see that there are some tombs with bone awls. However, their presence
in the Argaric grave goods is certainly exceptional, and it may well be that
several, if not all, of the cases that have been reported in this sense
would have to be reviewed. A good example of this can be found in the tombs
El Oficio 210 and 237 and El Argar 711, where the field sketches, made in
pencil by Pedro Flores -Siret's foreman- show how the awls were actually
found outside the funerary container. In some other cases, such as El Argar
tomb 169, a review of the documentation shows that it was probably an
altered burial, in which not even recognisable human skeletal remains were
found.

As far as I know, there are no Early Bronze Age tombs with this type of
material in other regions of the Iberian Peninsula. There are none in the
Bronze Age tombs of La Mancha, nor in the Valencian Bronze Age. Other very
different case are the collective burials of the Copper Age, but I have
understood that this is outside your current research objective.

I attach a bibliographical reference where you can find the description and
drawings of the Argaric grave goods from 1880s Siret´s excavations I am
talking about (maybe you know it, as it is a quite old publication).

 

SCHUBART, H., ULREICH, H. 1991, Die Funde der Südostspanischen Bronzezeit
aus der Sammlung Siret. Madrider Beiträge 17. Mit Beiträgen von H. Ulreich,
M. Hopf, H.J. Hundt. Verlag Philipp von Zabern. Mainz am Rhein, Deutsches
Archäologisches Institut, Madrid.

 

I hope I have been of some help. 

Best regards

 

Juan A. López-Padilla

 




 

Juan Antonio López Padilla

MARQ Museo Arqueológico de Alicante

Difusión y Exposiciones

Telf. 965149000. Ext. 7208

Pl. Gómez Ulla s/n

03013 Alicante

 

 

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Dear all,

 

I am looking for information on the finds of bones awls in (early) Bronze
Age graves. As far as I know there are no such finds from the Netherlands,
but I’d be happy to hear about examples from abroad, especially from western
Europe.

Many thanks in advance!

 

Best wishes,

Jørn Zeiler

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