My problem with it being a weaving shuttle is that it is curved. correct me if I am wrong but it would be very awkward to move it at all between the warp threads. I am wondering why ANTLER was chosen to make a tool that could be easily produced on cattle rib - much more work involved this way.<br>
<br>Alice<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 7:51 AM, Etan Ayalon <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:etana@eretzmuseum.org.il">etana@eretzmuseum.org.il</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
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<div><span><font size="2" face="Arial">Dear
Olivier,</font></span></div>
<div><span><font face="Arial"><font size="2">This nice
object looks like a weaving shuttle. Exact parallels were used in
Israel since the Neolithic period (6th-5th millenia BCE).
cf.: </font></font></span></div>
<div><span><font face="Arial"><font size="2"><span>Bar Yosef, Ofer. 1988. <i>Nahal</i> <i>Hemar
Cave</i> ('Atiqot Series). Israel Antiquities Authority. Jerusalem
(Neolithic).</span></font></font></span></div>
<div><span><font face="Arial"><font size="2"><span>Bar Adon, Pesah. 1980. <i>The Cave of the Treasures,
The Finds from the Caves in Nahal Mishmar</i>. Israel Exploration Society.
Jerusalem (Chalcolithic). Good photo of the same: Ayalon, Etan and Sorek,
Chagit. 1999. <i>Bare Bones, Ancient Artifacts from Animal Bones</i>
(Catalogue, Eretz Israel Museum). Tel Aviv, Fig.
27.</span></font></font></span></div>
<div><span><font face="Arial"><font size="2"><span>And so on, it has not changed in many
periods.</span></font></font></span></div>
<div><span><font face="Arial"><font size="2"><span>Sincerely yours</span></font></font></span></div>
<div><span><font face="Arial"><font size="2"><span>Etan Ayalon</span></font></font></span></div>
<div><span><font face="Arial"><font size="2"><span>Israel </span></font></font></span></div></div><br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Trebuchet MS"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Dear colleagues, we found on the settlement of Erstein
(late bronze age), located near Strasbourg (Alsace, France), an antler artefact
(photos attached). The dimensions are as follows: </span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Trebuchet MS"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">- length 165 mm</span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Trebuchet MS"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">- width 26 mm </span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Trebuchet MS"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">- thickness: 2.3 to 2.4 mm </span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Trebuchet MS"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">- diameter hole: 5.5 mm </span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Trebuchet MS"><span style="font-size: 12pt;" lang="EN-GB">Does somebody have an idea of the possible function of
this object?</span></font><font size="3" color="navy"><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: navy;" lang="EN-GB"> </span></font><font size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Thanks in advance. Sincerely yours.
OP.</span></font></p>
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