<div>Dear Selena,</div>
<div> What you probably have are leather thong smoothers - the wear is on the oral part of the manidible right - in the area of the P1-2? Sandra Olsen has similar tools made on horse mandible. (although the wear is aboral behind the M3) and there is no doubt the contact material was hide. She has studied them at high magnification. Her article appeared in the Crafting Bones volume. We have many of these tools made on caprine mandibles especially in the Middle Chacolithic. I can send you images once I get back from China.</div>
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<div>Cheers!</div>
<div>Alice<br><br></div>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 6:58 PM, Selena Vitezovic <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:selenavitezovic@gmail.com">selenavitezovic@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">Dear colleagues, <br><br>I have two strange artefactst from the site Bubanj in southeastern Serbia, Chalcolithic period, one made from cattle manible, the other from sheep manidble. Both pieces show intensive traces of use - cattle mandible looks like it was used for polishing, sheep manidble has two gouges as if something was attached and hanging. Unfortunately, both objects are fragmented. I suppose these are some ad hoc, expedient tools, since I do not have any other objects made from mandibles, and no traces of shaping (cutting, grinding) could have been observed. But, perhaps someone has some ideas about their use and possible analogies? <br>
<br>Thank you!!! <br><br>best, selena <br><br>_______________________________________________<br>Bonetools mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Bonetools@listserv.niif.hu">Bonetools@listserv.niif.hu</a><br><a href="https://listserv.niif.hu/mailman/listinfo/bonetools" target="_blank">https://listserv.niif.hu/mailman/listinfo/bonetools</a><br>
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