<div dir="ltr">Dear Chris,<div> The piece certainly looks as if it was never used but it could be finished and was never intended to be a 'pretty' piece. It has a kind of pitchfork look to it. If it is a singular find maybe you need to think about a function where the object would tend to be lost or broken off-settlement and maybe an object that can and was more often made in wood - hence the pitchfork for hay idea etc. It certainly is an odd piece. Nothing like that that I remember seeing in Hungary but admittedly, the 5th millennium is a bit outside my field of reference.</div><div><br></div><div>Best,</div><div>Alice</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, May 30, 2016 at 4:54 PM, Christopher Arabatzis <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:christ.arabatzis@gmail.com" target="_blank">christ.arabatzis@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><div><div>Dear Selena,<br><br></div>Thank you. The preform also came up to me but I still can't find the final form of it :- )<br><br>The two tips are not so well preserved - the one is broken as you can see in the photo.The other one has some polish close to the edge of the tip. It could be considered as use wear traces.<br><br></div>As for the two holes, maybe a wooden shaft was penetrating them and the item was used laterally. It's just a guess.<br><br></div>chris<br><div><br><br><br></div></div><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">2016-05-30 17:20 GMT+03:00 Selena Vitezović <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:selenavitezovic@gmail.com" target="_blank">selenavitezovic@gmail.com</a>></span>:<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">Hello, Chris, and everyone else, <br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif">In my opinion, it is a preform, unfinished something. Traces of manufacture are very clearly visible and I do not see any usewear (perhaps you noted some?). However, for what it may have been preform is a bit tough to guess, I've never seen an object that may look similar to this. Perhaps that is why it was never finished? <br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif">best, Selena<br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div>On 30 May 2016 at 15:33, Christopher Arabatzis <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:christ.arabatzis@gmail.com" target="_blank">christ.arabatzis@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br></div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div>Dear all,<br><br></div>I hope you had a great time in Iasi. The uploaded photos in the WBRG facebook group are really great.<br><br></div>I need your help and your expertise.<br>Has anyone of you ever seen an artifact like that?<br> It is dating back to the 5th mil BC, probably at the first half of it.<br><br></div>Best Regards,<br></div>Christopher <br></div>
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