<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:10pt">Hello<br><br>Maybe a kind of shovel or scraper for digging work ? (example of these tools in the attached files, sorry one is in french...)<br>Best<br><div> </div><span style="font-weight:bold;">Marquebielle Benjamin</span><br>doctorant laboratoire TRACES - 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><div style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt"><br><div style="font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><font face="Tahoma" size="2"><hr size="1"><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">De :</span></b> Erika Gal <gal_erika@yahoo.com><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">À :</span></b> Bonetools <bonetools@listserv.niif.hu><br><b><span
style="font-weight: bold;">Envoyé le :</span></b> Mar 2 août 2011, 13h 27min 30s<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Objet :</span></b> [Bonetools] Late Neolithic (Lengyel culture) tool assemblage<br></font><br><div style="color:#000;background-color:#fff;font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:14pt;"><div>
<span>Dear Colleagues,</span></div>
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<span>We have </span><span>recently
come across an interesting "tool-assemblage" from Late Neolithic
(Lengyel culture) graves from Southern Hungary. It is a red deer antler
stick (usually about 35-45 cm long) and
an <span id="yiv118416977misspell-16">aurochs</span> (or cattle) scapula-fragment. The stick is placed on the <span id="yiv118416977misspell-17" style="font-style:italic;"></span>scapula as you may see on the attached picture. The edges of the articulation surface and the <span id="yiv118416977misspell-18" style="font-style:italic;">collum</span><span style="font-style:italic;"> </span>of scapula shows <span id="yiv118416977misspell-19"><span>hand-polish,</span></span> and the originally broken surface is also rounded and polished in some degree. These two artefacts are placed behind the back of the <span id="yiv118416977misspell-20"><span>buried</span></span>
person (so far only men), together with other utensils from bone and
stone. Nevertheless, our colleague who studies the household remains
from the same site, founds more and more such kind of scapula-tools. This would
suggest that it is a more frequent and ordinary type as we initially
thought. However, we still think that the antler stick and scapula found in
graves would form a tool assemblage together, and wondering if some of
you have already met similar finds, know their role or significance, or any parallels. Thank you for
your comments and suggestions in advance!</span><span></span><br><br>With best wishes,<br>Erika Gal<br><div></div></div></div></div>
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