<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><p style="text-align: justify;" class=""><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">Thank you very much for the ideas and comments! <o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;" class=""><font face="Calibri, sans-serif" class="">Publications helped a lot, thank you for sharing. The specimens, which were published by Markovo, look quite similar to those I shared. I will try to reach Beldiman’s publication, too. </font></p><p style="text-align: justify;" class=""><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">And yes, the examples are from Asagi Pinar.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;" class=""><span lang="TR" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">Best</span><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""> regards.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><div style="margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;" class=""><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">Hazal</span></div><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">Petar Zidarov <<a href="mailto:petar.zidarov@yahoo.com" class="">petar.zidarov@yahoo.com</a>> şunları yazdı (30.05.2022 13:34):</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class=""><div class="ydpeffd6101yahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:16px;"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false" class="">Dear Hazal,</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false" class="">Sorry, it's only now that I see your message...</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false" class=""><br class=""></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false" class="">I am not exactly sure about the use of your objects or their place in the manufacturing continuum either as preforms or finished prodicts, but Hristina Markova from Nova Zagora museum published <span class=""><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;" class="">comparable examples from Northern Bulgaria - the sites of Hotnitsa-Orlovka and Gradishte near Levski - and </span></span>suggests that they could be the finials of bone spoon <span class=""><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;" class="">handles </span></span>although they should admittedly date to the third quarter of the 6th mill. BC when the number of bone spoons declines and their morphology changes significantly. Here are links to the articles I have in mind:</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false" class="">- Hotnitsa-Orlovka - <a href="https://www.academia.edu/39721262/Bone_industry_from_the_Late_neolithic_site_Hotnitsa_Orlovka" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" class="">https://www.academia.edu/39721262/Bone_industry_from_the_Late_neolithic_site_Hotnitsa_Orlovka</a></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false" class="">- Gradishte - <a href="https://www.academia.edu/43625522/%D0%9F%D1%80%D0%B5%D0%B4%D0%BC%D0%B5%D1%82%D0%B8_%D0%BE%D1%82_%D1%82%D0%B2%D1%8A%D1%80%D0%B4%D0%B0_%D0%B6%D0%B8%D0%B2%D0%BE%D1%82%D0%B8%D0%BD%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B0_%D0%BC%D0%B0%D1%82%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B8%D1%8F_%D0%BE%D1%82_%D0%BD%D0%B5%D0%BE%D0%BB%D0%B8%D1%82%D0%BD%D0%BE%D1%82%D0%BE_%D1%81%D0%B5%D0%BB%D0%B8%D1%89%D0%B5_%D0%93%D0%BE%D0%BB%D0%BE_%D0%B1%D1%8A%D1%80%D0%B4%D0%BE_%D0%B4%D0%BE_%D1%81%D0%B5%D0%BB%D0%BE_%D0%93%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%B4%D0%B8%D1%89%D0%B5_%D0%BF%D1%80%D0%B5%D0%B4%D0%B2%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B8%D1%82%D0%B5%D0%BB%D0%BD%D0%BE_%D1%81%D1%8A%D0%BE%D0%B1%D1%89%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%B5_Objects_of_hard_animal_tissue_from_the_Neolithic_settlement_Golo_bardo_nearby_village_of_Gradishte_preliminary_report_" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" class="">https://www.academia.edu/43625522/%D0%9F%D1%80%D0%B5%D0%B4%D0%BC%D0%B5%D1%82%D0%B8_%D0%BE%D1%82_%D1%82%D0%B2%D1%8A%D1%80%D0%B4%D0%B0_%D0%B6%D0%B8%D0%B2%D0%BE%D1%82%D0%B8%D0%BD%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B0_%D0%BC%D0%B0%D1%82%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B8%D1%8F_%D0%BE%D1%82_%D0%BD%D0%B5%D0%BE%D0%BB%D0%B8%D1%82%D0%BD%D0%BE%D1%82%D0%BE_%D1%81%D0%B5%D0%BB%D0%B8%D1%89%D0%B5_%D0%93%D0%BE%D0%BB%D0%BE_%D0%B1%D1%8A%D1%80%D0%B4%D0%BE_%D0%B4%D0%BE_%D1%81%D0%B5%D0%BB%D0%BE_%D0%93%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%B4%D0%B8%D1%89%D0%B5_%D0%BF%D1%80%D0%B5%D0%B4%D0%B2%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B8%D1%82%D0%B5%D0%BB%D0%BD%D0%BE_%D1%81%D1%8A%D0%BE%D0%B1%D1%89%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%B5_Objects_of_hard_animal_tissue_from_the_Neolithic_settlement_Golo_bardo_nearby_village_of_Gradishte_preliminary_report_</a></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false" class=""><br class=""></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false" class="">A somewhat similar object is illustrated on the cover of Corneliu Beldiman's book and as far as I remember it is from Starcevo context in Romania - so closer in time to your pieces. Unfortunately, I don't have the book with me to ofer you a closer reference but you may have better access to libraries. Here is the title:</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false" class=""><div class=""><div class="ydp336af5cfcsl-bib-body" style="line-height: 1.35; margin-left: 2em;">
<div class="ydp336af5cfcsl-entry">Beldiman, C. 2007. <i class="">Industria materiilor dure animale în preistoria României. Resurse naturale, comunități umane şi tehnologie din paleoliticul superior până în neoliticul timpuriu</i>. Studii de Preistorie Supplementum 2. Bucureşti: Pro Universitaria.</div>
<span class="ydp336af5cfZ3988" title="url_ver=Z39.88-2004&ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fzotero.org%3A2&rft_id=urn%3Aisbn%3A978-973-129-063-8&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Industria%20materiilor%20dure%20animale%20%C3%AEn%20preistoria%20Rom%C3%A2niei.%20Resurse%20naturale%2C%20comunit%C4%83%C8%9Bi%20umane%20%C5%9Fi%20tehnologie%20din%20paleoliticul%20superior%20p%C3%A2n%C4%83%20%C3%AEn%20neoliticul%20timpuriu&rft.place=Bucure%C5%9Fti&rft.publisher=Pro%20Universitaria&rft.series=Studii%20de%20Preistorie&rft.aufirst=Corneliu&rft.aulast=Beldiman&rft.au=Corneliu%20Beldiman&rft.date=2007&rft.tpages=370&rft.isbn=978-973-129-063-8&rft.language=Romanian"></span></div></div></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false" class=""><br class=""></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false" class="">So, if I am not mistaken the combination of the above mentioned <span class=""><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;" class="">would illustrate a continuous tradition in the area of the Lower Danube lasting for several hundred years at least. Respectively, </span></span>the weight of the evidence may point to a local Balkan phenomenon that may originate before the Neolithization of the region and to surface in your assemblage, especially if it is from Asagi Pinar in Eastern Thrace.</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false" class=""><br class=""></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false" class="">I hope this brings you forward!</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false" class="">Best wishes,</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false" class="">Petar</div><div class="ydpeffd6101signature"><div style="font-family:Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:16px;" class=""><div class="">-- </div><div dir="ltr" class=""> <div class="ydp12af3d66pasted-link"><div class="">Petar Zidarov <div class=""><br class=""></div></div><div class=""><a href="https://newbulgarian.academia.edu/PetarZidarov" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" class="">https://uni-tuebingen.academia.edu/PetarZidarov</a><br class=""></div><div class=""><a href="https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Petar_Zidarov2" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" class="">https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Petar_Zidarov2</a><br class=""></div><div class=""><a href="http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9968-7786" style="color:rgb(17,85,204);font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:15px;" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" class="">http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9968-7786</a><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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On Monday, May 23, 2022, 08:06:00 PM GMT+3, Hazal Azeri <<a href="mailto:hazalazeri@gmail.com" class="">hazalazeri@gmail.com</a>> wrote:
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<div class=""><div id="ydp291e3b5ayiv9592434714" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div style="margin: 0cm;" class=""><span lang="EN-GB" style="" class=""><font face="arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: inherit;" class="">Dear
all,</font></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm;" class=""><span lang="EN-GB" style="" class=""><font face="arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: inherit;" class="">Currently, I am working on worked bone specimens from a Neolithic settlement in
Northwestern Anatolia (5900 cal BC.), and I have come across two objects </font></span><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;" class="">(please find the pdf file attached)</span><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;" class="">. </span><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;" class="">May I kindly ask for your help in this regard? </span></div><div style="margin: 0cm;" class=""><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm;" class=""><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;" class="">Might
they be preforms of a hook or an object used in clothing? </span></div><div style="margin: 0cm;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0cm;" class=""><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;" class="">Sincerely yours.</span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0cm;" class=""><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;" class="">Hazal
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