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<FONT FACE="Times, Times New Roman"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:12.0px'>Dear Selena:<BR>
It is a bit early for a cheek piece, probably, but it could be an arrowshaft straightener/flaker. The wear around the perforation suggests that it could have been used to straighten shafts, although not over a very long period of time.<BR>
Do you have any decorated horse phalanges? I am very interested in finding out if there are others from Iron Gate and what their ages are.<BR>
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</SPAN></FONT></FONT><FONT FACE="Bookman Old Style"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:12.0px'>Sandra L. Olsen, Ph.D.<BR>
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On 4/28/10 7:08 PM, "Selena Vitezovic" <selenavitezovic@gmail.com> wrote:<BR>
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</FONT></SPAN><BLOCKQUOTE><SPAN STYLE='font-size:12.0px'><FONT FACE="Times, Times New Roman">Hello everyone, <BR>
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I have - again - a question concerning early and middle Neolithic bone objects. This antler piece comes from early Neolithic site Knjepište in Iron Gates (near the Iron Gates II hydropowerplant, i. e. downstream of Lepenski Vir), and should be of Early Neolithic origin. However, I have never seen anything quite like this before - and it does not seem Neolithic to me. All these Iron Gates sites also have traces of Roman occupation, and several sites in Iron Gates II region have Bronze Age levels as well (Žuto Brdo culture), and I think this piece is younger than Early Neolithic (data on stratigraphy is scarce). <BR>
I would really appreciate if anyone could point me to some analogies. <BR>
thanx, Selena <BR>
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