<div dir="ltr"><div>For that matter there are also such stone Bell-Beaker 'bracers'. Again, the functional ascription has always bothered me a tiny bit since although it seems reasonable in the Hungarian material given the form of these objects and their location in inhumation graves. Still, form does not always necessarily equal function. </div>
<div> </div><div>Alice</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 11:48 AM, <a href="mailto:trzaska@lineone.net">trzaska@lineone.net</a> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:trzaska@lineone.net" target="_blank">trzaska@lineone.net</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hello Fotis,<br>
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I haven's seen any antler rings of that date but in Britain we do have stone bracers for archery,<br>
beautifully catalogued in Ann Woodward and John Hunter, An Examination of Prehistoric Stone Bracers<br>
from Britain, Oxford (Oxbow Books), 2011. No bone or antler examples of these yet although there<br>
are examples of a later date.<br>
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I will contact Ann Woodward and see if she has come across any Neolithic antler rings,<br>
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Ian Riddler<br>
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>Date: 13/05/2013 06:56<br>
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>To: "Mailing list for archaeologists of the research group for the study of<br>
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> object and waste of bone,<br>
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> antler. ivory and horn."<<a href="mailto:bonetools@listserv.niif.hu">bonetools@listserv.niif.hu</a>><br>
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>Subj: [Bonetools] neolithic archer's rings<br>
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>Though for years I had the feeling that some of the bone/antler finger<br>
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>rings from my study material from Neolithic Dispilio (Greece) could be used<br>
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>as archer’s rings, today I am more that certain…<br>
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>Do you know any (published) examples of Neolithic archer’s rings or a<br>
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>general biblio?<br>
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>f.<br>
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