<div dir="ltr"><div>Dear Chris,<br><br></div>I would guess this is an antler piece from which a disk was drilled out or extracted. The resulting disk would look like a round "sandwich" of compact matter and spongy bone in the middle. Something sort of like the images I attach.<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Mar 16, 2016 at 4:38 PM, "Renáta Přichystalová" <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:svecova@phil.muni.cz" target="_blank">svecova@phil.muni.cz</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hello Chris,<br>
<br>
this artefact from Divostin is smaller than yours, but the form of the<br>
part near by hole is very similar.<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
Renáta Přichystalová<br>
Ústav archeologie a muzeologie FF MU<br>
Department of Archaeology and Museology<br>
Faculty of Art<br>
Masaryk University<br>
A. Nováka 1<br>
CZ-602 00 Brno<br>
<div><div class="h5"><br>
<br>
> Dear all,<br>
><br>
> I hope you are fine.<br>
><br>
> I'm attaching a photo of an artifact from a neolithic settlement in Greece<br>
> that dates back to the second half of the 5th millennium B.C.<br>
><br>
> Any ideas about its' use are very welcomed.<br>
><br>
> Best Regards,<br>
> Chris<br>
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