Dear Selena - this is a very strange object but obviously made by someone who knew very well what they were doing and understood the material and its limitations. I hope someone out ther is going to shed some light on it.<br>
<br>Alice <br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 8:52 PM, Selena Vitezovic <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:selenavitezovic@gmail.com">selenavitezovic@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Thanks, mr Greenfield. <br><br>Alice, here are some additional photos of the antler. I think that the rose was on the broken part, I have also two other bases of shed antlers, with similarly cut tines, but without this large portion of beam, and with working surface on the antler base. <br>
Starčevo is also poor with antlers in general - with the exception of sites from Iron gates - but then I found almost 20 antler objects from Starčevo in Pančevo museum, all very carefully worked. <br><br>best, s. <br><div>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On 2 February 2010 20:14, Alice Choyke <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:h13017cho@iif.hu" target="_blank">h13017cho@iif.hu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Dear Selena,<br> The groove on the cattle first phalange appears made with twine but I have never seen anything like it on Koros sites in Hungary or anywhere else for that matter. It is a bit hard to judge the first object. am I right in thinking that one end is a the rose (without the pearling) of a shed antler and then the eye and beze tines with a hole cut perpendicularly thru the beam? What does the cross-section of this object look like. The Koros culture of Hungary is strikingly poor in antler objects of any kind.<br>
<br>Best,<br><font color="#888888">Alice<br><br></font><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div></div><div>On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 7:43 PM, Selena Vitezovic <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:selenavitezovic@gmail.com" target="_blank">selenavitezovic@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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Hello everyone, <br><br>Now I have few questions. These objects are from Starčevo culture (Early/ middle Neolithic) from Starčevo, eponymous site, in Belgrade vicinity (the phalanx and the antler tool) and from Donja Branjevina in northerns Serbia (pointed tool). <br>
Has anyone ever seen anything like this before? <br><br>thanx very much, <br><br>regards, Selena <br>
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