<html><head></head><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue-Light, Helvetica Neue Light, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:16px"><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1479466886460_41940">> My initial thought on seeing your piece was that this looked like a medieval Scandinavian object,</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1479466886460_42045" dir="ltr"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1479466886460_42068" dir="ltr">My thoughts exactly. You were not alone. ;)<br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1479466886460_42069" dir="ltr"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1479466886460_42123" dir="ltr">Best wishes, Mel<br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1479466886460_41939"> </div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1479466886460_41999" class="signature">Melanie Langbein M.A. <br><br>Geibelstraße 10 <br>90459 Nürnberg <br>0176/20074267 <br>mlangbeinarch@yahoo.de</div> <div class="qtdSeparateBR"><br><br></div><div style="display: block;" class="yahoo_quoted"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light, Helvetica Neue Light, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> <div dir="ltr"><font face="Arial" size="2"> Dr C.M. Hills <ch35@cam.ac.uk> schrieb am 16:01 Freitag, 18.November 2016:<br></font></div> <br><br> <div class="y_msg_container"> Dear Marta of course I did not intend to suggest Iberian language and <br clear="none">people were the same as Scandinavians. My point is that your inscription <br clear="none">could as well be one written in runes- I had not realised how similar <br clear="none">the two alphabets are. I attach an illustration from a paper by a Danish <br clear="none">runologist, Marie Stoklund in case you are not familiar with runes. I am <br clear="none">sure I am not the first person to notice this, there is probably a large <br clear="none">literature comparing them, and suggesting reasons for the coincidence of <br clear="none">symbol- although most of them seem to represent different sounds. My <br clear="none">initial thought on seeing your piece was that this looked like a <br clear="none">medieval Scandinavian object, but since it is a prehistoric Iberian <br clear="none">artefact this must be a coincidence.<br clear="none">Best wishes, Catherine<br clear="none"><br clear="none"><div class="yqt3477787908" id="yqtfd24587"><br clear="none">On 18/11/2016 12:57, Marta Blasco Martín wrote:<br clear="none">> Thank you all of you for your answers and ideas. They’re very<br clear="none">> interesting! Alice, can you give me some references about the antler<br clear="none">> containers which can be found in the<br clear="none">> Carpathian Basin?<br clear="none">> <br clear="none">> Chaterine, Iberian language is specific to people who lived in the<br clear="none">> eastern and southeastern regions of the Iberian Peninsula. Is a<br clear="none">> non-Indo-European tongue and it is not related with the Scandinavias<br clear="none">> runes. I send an image.<br clear="none">> <br clear="none">> Best wishes,<br clear="none">> <br clear="none">> Marta<br clear="none">> _______________________________________________<br clear="none">> Bonetools mailing list<br clear="none">> <a shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:Bonetools@listserv.niif.hu" href="mailto:Bonetools@listserv.niif.hu">Bonetools@listserv.niif.hu</a><br clear="none">> <a shape="rect" href="https://listserv.niif.hu/mailman/listinfo/bonetools" target="_blank">https://listserv.niif.hu/mailman/listinfo/bonetools</a></div><br><div class="yqt3477787908" id="yqtfd92852">_______________________________________________<br clear="none">Bonetools mailing list<br clear="none"><a shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:Bonetools@listserv.niif.hu" href="mailto:Bonetools@listserv.niif.hu">Bonetools@listserv.niif.hu</a><br clear="none"><a shape="rect" href="https://listserv.niif.hu/mailman/listinfo/bonetools" target="_blank">https://listserv.niif.hu/mailman/listinfo/bonetools</a><br clear="none"></div><br><br></div> </div> </div> </div></div></body></html>