<div dir="ltr">In Hungary we have relatively many bore tusk tools coming from early bronze age bell-beaker sites around Budapest. All the boar tusk tools from MBA sites from Hungary that I have seen have certainly been made with stone tools. Although not often mentioned in official reports, there are in fact thousands of small chipped stone scrapers on BA sites in Hungary and the bone tools bear witness to this technological synergy. Metal tools in the form of chop marks from axes are found early on, on antler heavy duty burr and beam tools. There also seems to be special use of metal on the ornamented antler objects typical of the the MBA in Hungary such as bridle ornaments. I have only seen evidence of the use of metal knives on bone tools in the early LBA in this region.<div><br><div>Best,</div><div>Alice </div></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Mar 14, 2016 at 6:07 PM, Selena Vitezović <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:selenavitezovic@gmail.com" target="_blank">selenavitezovic@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif">Dear colleagues, <br><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif">I am looking for something more detailed on boar tusk tools, in particular on technology and typology in the Bronze Age. <br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif">I have from one Bronze Age site in Pannonia. excavated in early 20th century, few dozens of boar tusks, mainly fragmented (some with fresh breakage, since they are very brittle and are being stored in the museum for several decades), therefore it is difficult to distinguish débitage from fragmented tools. They usually have traces of scraping on the inner surfaces, but I am not able to distinguish the usewear on the enamel (outer surfaces). Presumably, most of the tusks were just split and then more-less crescent-shaped pieces were used for scraping, however, any help is most welcome. In particular, does anyone know any large assemblage of boar tusk tools from this period, and has anyone conducted experiments on boar tusks to distinguish manufacturing traces made by flint and by bronze tool? <br><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif">Thanks in advance! <br><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif">best regards, Selena <br clear="all"></div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>-- <br><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr">Selena Vitezović <br></div><div>Arheološki institut <br></div><div><a href="http://www.ai.ac.rs" target="_blank">www.ai.ac.rs</a><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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