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Title: The Bone Industry at Vinca


1
The Bone Industry at Vinca
  • Researcher Silvia
  • Assistant Michelle
  • Section 106

2
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.
3
The bone objects comprised some 1000 examples and
were conveniently divided into
  • Household tools
  • fishing and agricultural tools
  • weapons
  • jewelry

4
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

5
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.

6
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

7
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)

8
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.
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