ZALOG NEAR VERD. Stone Age hunters' camp at the western edge of the Ljubljansko barje

Andrej GASPARI

Artefacts of bone and red deer antler

Abstract

The Mesolithic site of Zalog near Verd yielded fourteen tools made of antler of red deer, nine bone objects and a large amount of waste made during tool production. Among these, the particularly outstanding group is that of solid antler tools with a perforation that fi t numerous functional and technological analogies in the Mesolithic of Europe, while their direct typological analogies can be found within the Early Holocene material of the sites in the Iron Gates area.

Key words: Slovenia, the Ljubljansko barje, Mesolithic, antler, bone, tools, weapons

Zalog near Verd. Cat. no. 8. Detail of the perforation.

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2006, (Opera Instituti Archaeologici Sloveniae, 11), 233 pp., 37 drawings, photos, tables, graphs and maps, 99 b-w drawings, photos, tables, graphs and maps, 20 x 29 cm, hardcover, ISBN 961-6568-57-4.

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