<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif;font-size:12pt;color:#000000;">Hello !<br>Does anybody have an idea about the type or function of this object ? It's an young <span style="text-decoration: underline;">pig phalanx</span>, with <span style="text-decoration: underline;">use wear traces on the internal face</span>, covered by oblique striations. It comes from large <span style="text-decoration: underline;">protohistoric site</span> (possible marketplace) of Toulouse, in the south of France (II-I° century BC). About 20 objects was found, a majority made of pig phalanxes (young or not) and only two made of bovid pahlanxes. Use wear is always located on the same face, with different use degree and some objetcs are <span style="text-decoration: underline;">perforated on the proximal face</span>. We thought about a kind of <span style="text-decoration:
underline;">smoother </span>(in relation with potery ? metal ?) but objects are realy small and found in various contexts (more often in <span style="text-decoration: underline;">wells</span> full of rubbish).<br>Thanks a lot and best regards<br><div> </div><span style="font-weight:bold;">Marquebielle Benjamin</span><br>PhD student TRACES laboratory - UMR 5608<br>5, rue du pont Guilheméry<br>31000 Toulouse<br>tel : 06 71 33 61 52<br>e-mail : benjamin.marquebielle@yahoo.fr<br><div><br></div>
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