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Dear Selena,<div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>The artefacts presented are very interesting.</div><div>The perforated piece of antler is a common artifact of the European Young Neolithic or Early Chalcolithic (see Michelsberg, Chasséen, even Karanovo V and VI and Cucuteni may be). I never met one of these type of pieces in Early Neolithic You will find some information in these réferences :</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div><!--StartFragment--><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:6.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm; margin-left:68.5pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-67.8pt;mso-pagination: none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>2000<span style="mso-tab-count:1"> Sidéra I., </span>Animaux domestiques, bêtes sauvages et objets en matières animales du Rubané au Michelsberg. De l'économie aux symboles, des techniques à la culture. <i>Gallia Préhistoire</i><span style="font-style:normal">, 42, pp. 108-194.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <!--EndFragment--> </div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div><!--StartFragment--><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:6.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm; margin-left:68.5pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-67.8pt;mso-pagination: none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none">1998, Sidéra I., Rapport d'étude de l'assemblage osseux de Drama (Bulgarie). <i>Bericht der Römisch-Germanischen Kommission</i><span style="font-style:normal">, 77, pp. 120-129.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <!--EndFragment--> </div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>The antler pointed tool looks like a human figurine. There is a culture in France called " Cerny" (Middle/Young Neolithic in which figurine pointed tools of a close type as yours are often found but not only in toumbs. On these tools, like may be on the one you present, there is is an interesting fusion of symbolism and material function. I recently published a paper about that point:</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div><!--StartFragment--><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Garamond; mso-ansi-language:FR;mso-fareast-language:FR">2001 Sidéra I., Domestic and funerary bone, antler and tooth objects in the Neolithic of western Europe : a comparison. <i>In</i></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Garamond;mso-ansi-language:FR;mso-fareast-language: FR"> : <i>Crafting bone : Skeletal Technologies through Time and Space</i></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Garamond;mso-ansi-language:FR;mso-fareast-language: FR">, Choyke A.M. & Bartosiewicz L. eds, British Archaeological Reports, IS 937, Oxford, pp. 221-229.</span></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Garamond" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px;"><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Garamond" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px;"> <!--StartFragment--><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:6.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm; margin-left:69.2pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-65.0pt;mso-pagination: none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none">2009 Sidéra I. – Figurines et outils anthropomorphes en os du Néolithique danubien,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span><i>Archeo-Situla</i><span style="font-style:normal"> 28-29, 2008-2009, pp. 13-27.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <!--EndFragment--> </span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Garamond" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px;"><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></span></font></div><div><div>I have no id on the phalanx.</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div></div><div>I give you here some references, but if you like, I can load for you all the papres on the web, so that you will be able to have them.</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>Best, I. Sidéra</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div><br></div><div><div><div>Le 2 févr. 10 à 19:47, Selena Vitezovic a écrit :</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">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 <span><stc 205_SDC14765_2.jpg></span><span><stc 246_SDC15318.JPG></span><span><stc 246_SDC15319.JPG></span><span><SDC14344.JPG></span><span><SDC14345.JPG></span><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">_______________________________________________</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Bonetools mailing list</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><a href="mailto:Bonetools@listserv.niif.hu">Bonetools@listserv.niif.hu</a></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><a href="https://listserv.niif.hu/mailman/listinfo/bonetools">https://listserv.niif.hu/mailman/listinfo/bonetools</a></div> </blockquote></div><br><div> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; 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