The Bone Industry at Vinca

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The Bone Industry at Vinca

• Researcher Silvia
• Assistant Michelle
• Section 106

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The Bone Industry

• Bone implements were unearthed at almost all
  Vinca Settlements but the information
  concerning them is limited.
• It was suggested that towards the end of the
  culture there was a decrease in bone tool
  production.

Fish-hooks made from deer horn, bone and boar
teeth were discovered throughout the Vinca
settlement.
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The bone objects comprised some 1000 examples and
were conveniently divided into

• Household tools

• fishing and agricultural tools

• weapons

• jewelry

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Categories of Bone ToolsThese artifacts include
points of all tip categories made of split and
unsplit ribs, metapodials, and unidentified long
bones.

• Double Ended Points
• Needles
• Very Thin Slender Points
• Points with perforations

• Possible Hide Burnishers
• Flaked Rubbing tools
• Blunted Points
• Rounded Points

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Methods of Analysis Experimentation of the
Formation of Microwear on Bone

• The results and the experiments are applied to
  the reconstructioning of the manufacturing
  process of bone tools.

• After the experiments, the bones were degreased
  by soaking them in a strong ammonia solution,
  then examined through a binocular microscope at
  50 x.

• The most extensive previous work in this field is
  that of Sermenov (1964) focused on the action
  that is, the kind of motion with which a tool is
  used. The authors experiments concentrated on
  the contract material.

• This examination revealed distinctive wear
  patterns from some of the materials.

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Experimental Wear Patterns

• Cutting with
• Unretouched Flint Flake
• Flint Burin
• Flint Truncated Blade
• Metal Knife
• Scrapping with
• Flint Scrapper
• Metal Knife

• Sawing with
• Flint flake
• Drilling with
• Flint Awl
• Chopping with
• Basalt Chopper
• Rubbing with
• Sandstone

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Photo References

• Slide 2
• Bone fishhook, bone spatula, bone belt buckle,
  bird bone tube (Tringham and Kristic 1990 696)
• Slide 3
• Bone knife, antler (Tringham and Kristic 1990
  697)
• Pendants (Tringham and Kristic 1990 699)
• Bone point, needles, pottery burnisher (Tringham
  and Kristic 1990 696)
• Bone Pottery polisher, antler digging tools
  (Tringham and Kristic 1990 698)

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Bibliography

• Chapman, John
• 1981 The Vinca Culture of South-East Europe
  Studies in Chronology, Economy and Society.
  Oxford British Archaeological Reports No. 117
• Markotic, Vladimir
• 1984 The Vinca Culture. Calgary Western
  publishers.
• Russel, Nerissa
• 1990 The Bone tools. In Selevac A Neolithic
  Village in Yugoslavia. Ruth Tringham and Dusan
  Kristics (eds.). Pp. 521 548. Los Angeles
  Institute of Archaeology, UCLA.