Re: worked Bos astragali
There was one worked cattle astragalus at Selevac, in Serbia,
along with a number of other ruminant astragali, mostly roe
deer.
Russell,
Nerissa
1990 The bone tools.
In Selevac: A Neolithic Village in Yugoslavia. R. E. Tringham
and D. Krstic, eds. Pp. 521-548. Los Angeles: UCLA Institute of
Archaeology.
Nerissa Russell
At 11:18 AM +0100 12/5/06, Stéphanie Bréhard wrote:
Dear Zooarchers,
I am working on Middle Neolithic assemblages from open air sites
located in the South of France.
Several Bos taurus astragali from these sites had been manufactured.
Some had been perforated (in different ways), some had been scratched
(accumulation of lines on the posterior side) and some have a side
that had been flattened.
In Europe, I know only two examples of worked astragali from
prehistoric contexts (Remouchamps cave & Varna) and it concerns
only caprine.
In eastern Mediterranean, it seems that bovine astragali were
sometimes used from Chalcolithic (Gilmour 1997, Oxford Journal of
Archaeology), but I did not find earlier data.
Would anyone know examples and references about worked bovine
astragali from Neolithic contexts ?
Thank you in advance.
Stéphanie Bréhard
Stéphanie Bréhard
Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle
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