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13th ICAZ International Conference, Ankara, Turkey 2nd-7th September 2018
Use of animal skeletal elements as raw materials in the Early Eneolithic period in the central Balkans
2018 •
Selena Vitezović
Eneolithic period in the Balkan area is marked by diverse archaeological cultures and cultural complexes. Traditional studies throughout 20th century were mainly focused on the problems of their chronological relations and on diverse aspects of the development of copper metallurgy, while faunal remains were not always carefully collected and their analyses were usually restricted. In this paper will be presented the osseous industry from several sites of Bubanj – Hum I culture, part of the Bubanj-Salcuţa-Krivodol cultural complex, widespread in the Balkans. The most important assemblage comes from the site of Bubanj near Niš, where excavations were carried out in 1950s and again in 2008-2014, and these last campaigns provided rich assemblage of osseous artefacts, including manufacture debris. Also was analysed the material from the sites of Lazareva cave near Zlot and Begov most, both situated in eastern Serbia. Predominant raw materials were bones, mainly sheep/goat and cattle metapodials and ribs and red deer antlers. Teeth occur rarely, and occasionally even mollusc shells may be encountered. Typological repertoire consists of everyday tools, such as awls, needles, chisels, burnishers, scrapers and hammers; also other utilitarian objects such as handles were produced, while the weapons were rare. Ornaments occur in small quantities, and particularly interesting is the find of a single, fragmented flat figurine from Bubanj.
13th ICAZ International Conference, Ankara, Turkey 2nd-7th September 2018
Raw material choices for ornaments in the Bronze Age Maros culture
2018 •
Selena Vitezović
The Maros (Moriš) culture of the Early Bronze Age was widespread in the southern Carpathian basin, around the confluence of Tisza (Tisa) and Maros (Moriš) rivers. In Serbian part of Banat, two large cemeteries were excavated in the 20th century: Ostojićevo and Mokrin. The burials were usually equipped with diverse grave goods: ceramic vessels, metal jewellery, metal weapons, and also relatively large amount of ornaments made from osseous raw materials were discovered. Osseous raw materials were very diverse; they included bones, antler segments, teeth and mollusc shells from several species, possibly both fossil and fresh. Strict raw material choices for specific artefact types can be noted: small ruminant metapodial bones for beads, while perforated teeth were almost exclusively dog canines, with rare occurrences of red deer canines or horse or cattle teeth. Despite common presumption that the metal ornaments had greater value because of the raw material, and that the osseous ornaments were simply „cheap substitutes“, these two necropoles prove otherwise. These ornaments display long use, sometimes were even repaired, suggesting they were valued and perhaps even had some symbolic significance. Use of mollusc shells in different stages of preservation, some even heavily damaged and fragmented, as well as presence of copies of pendants in white stones, suggest that the osseous ornaments had the value of their own right, related to their physical properties, in particular shiny, white colour, and/or for the attributes ascribed to the animals from which they derived.
Abstracts. 12da Conferencia Internacional ICAZ
Adolfo Gil, Agustina Massigoge
Libro de Resumenes compilado por A. Izeta et al. Trabajos presentados en 12th International Conference of Archaeozoology (San Rafael; Argentina-September 2014)
13th ICAZ symposium/Funerary meals at Tatika: An EBAI-II graveyard in Southeast Anatolia
2018 •
Derya Silibolatlaz
Animal Secondary Products: Domestic Animal Exploitation in Prehistoric Europe, the Near East and the Far East
Introduction
2014 •
Haskel J Greenfield
Archaeozoology of the Near East XII
Zooarchaeology of the Pre-Pottery and Pottery Neolithic site of Qasr-e Ahmad (Iran)
2019 •
Marjan Mashkour
The zooarchaeological study of the Neolithic site of Qasr-e Ahmad in Fars Province (southern Zagros, Iran) provides valuable evidence for a better understanding of the process of caprine domestication and dispersal in Southwest Asia.Goat was the most commonly exploited animal in Qasr-e Ahmad during both phases of prehistoric settlement (Pre-Pottery Neolithic and Pottery Neolithic). Sheep were also present but represent a limited contribution to the subsistence economy at the site. Limited osteometric data from sheep suggest that they were already domesticated at the site, which is earlier than hitherto suggested for the region. Kill-off and osteometric data indicate that the majority of goats and sheep were managed using strategies known at other later sites in the region. Cattle and pig were not domesticated and were not regularly exploited. The location of the site next to the Qara Aqhaj permanent river, the presence of architectural remains in the PPN phases of the site, as well ...
Programme and abstracts book 5 th Postgraduate Zooarchaeology Forum
Giovanni Di Simone
How are the Cut marks produced? A microscopic analysis of striations inflicted on bone surface using different stone tools
Jacopo Crezzini, Francesco Boschin
Digital microscopic analysis is here applied to the study of marks produced on bones by different stone tools. Two unretouched flint flakes and two burins have been used to inflict cut marks on fresh, boiled and dry bone. Five striations have been produced for three times on each mate rial with each tool. First time single cut marks have been inflicted; second time each groove has been inflicted moving the hand two times in the same direction; third time each groove has been inflicted using the tool like a saw, moving the hand bidirectionally. Cross sections from the median part of each groove have been analysed using an Hirox 3D digital microscope (KH-7700) and metrical parameters have been collected (depth, breadth at the floor and breadth at the top of the groove). In order to describe the shape of each cross section the ratio between the breadth at the top and the breadth at the floor, as well as the ratio between the breath at the top and the depth of cut marks have been calculated. Preliminary results show that tool wear, bone conditions and the way in which cut marks were inflicted influence grooves shape. Large variability of the recorded parameters doesn't allow to discriminate between different stone tools and different actions.
Study of socio-economic and consumption strategies during the Middle and Final Bronze Age in Majorca (Balearic Islands): the village of Els Closos de Ca’n Gaià
Lua Valenzuela-Suau, Silvia Valenzuela Lamas
