STARE GMAJNE PILE-DWELLING SETTLEMENT AND ITS ERA
The Ljubljansko barje in the 2nd half of the 4th millennium BC

Borut TOŠKAN

14. Bone, antler and teeth artefacts from the copper age pile-dwellings Stare gmajne and Blatna Brezovica

Artefact; of fragment of periarticular part of diaphysis of tubular longbone; unidentified animal; Stare gmajne (micro-location: trench 2, quadrant 3, section 5). Photo: M. Zaplatil.

Part-finished object made of basal beam part of antler; red deer; Stare gmajne (micro-location: ditch 4, section 40). Photo: M. Zaplatil.

Abstract

Fieldwork at the Copper Age pile-dwelling settlements Stare gmajne and Blatna Brezovica yielded, among other things, 66 artefacts made of animal bones, teeth and antlers. Pile-dwellers mainly used remains of wild animals as raw material: metacarpals/metatarsals and ulnae among postcranial skeletal elements, and red deer antlers. The spatial distribution of tools demonstrated that local concentrations of finds are not directly dependent on the quantity of all animal remains on the particular part of the excavation site.

Keywords: bone tools, antler tools, the Ljubljansko barje, Eneolithic.

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2009, (Opera Instituti Archaeologici Sloveniae, 16), 366 pages, 258 b-w drawings, photos, tables, graphs and maps, 45 plates, 3 appendices, 20 x 29 cm, hardcover, ISBN 978-961-254-111-8.

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