<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default"><font size="4">Dear Simeun,</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font size="4"> First of all, I think your 'bone' pendant is made from antler - probably red deer or moose. Secondly, it looks rather new - there is certainly not much wear around the hole. It was obviously meant to be suspended but frankly, it reminds me of late Neolithic, Chalcolithic and even Bronze age antler objects (from Hungary and Switzerland at least) made in imitation of composite objects. Imitation is an interesting subject and meant to enhance or draw attention to some intrinsic social value of the imitated object. For example - here is a little axe-blade shaped object, manufactured out of bone and also meant to be suspended from a MBA context in Hungary. What is being imitated would either be a polished stone blade or a bronze axe-blade, not because metal blades were not widely available but because the shape holds layers of social meaning , the details of which can only be guessed about. Your object, to my eye looks like a hafted blade (knife?).</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font size="4"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font size="4">Alice</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><img src="cid:ii_mnyflg131" alt="image.png" width="320" height="456"><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Apr 14, 2026 at 10:31 AM Simeun Srdanović <<a href="mailto:simosrdanovic@gmail.com">simosrdanovic@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Dear all,<div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">firstly, I hope you are all doing well!</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">I have attached a photo of a app. 5cm long bone artefact, which was interpreted as a bone pendant.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">In relation to this, I wanted to ask you for opinion or analogies, if you are familiar with it.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Thank you in advance!</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Kindest regards,</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Simeun Srdanović</div><div dir="auto"><div><img src="cid:ii_19d8b1d54fc4f7c61f21" style="max-width: 100%;"></div><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div>
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