Aspects of hard tissue modifications. Three objects from the Gravettian at Dolní Věstonice II (Czech Republic)

0552231 - ARÚB 2022 RIV CZ eng J - Článek v odborném periodiku
Sázelová, Sandra - Hromadová, B. - Perri, A. - Polanská, Michaela
Aspects of hard tissue modifications. Three objects from the Gravettian at Dolní Věstonice II (Czech Republic).
Študijné zvesti Archeologického ústavu Slovenskej akadémie vied. Roč. 2021, supplementum 2 (2021), s. 129-144. ISSN 0560-2793
Grant CEP: GA ČR(CZ) GA20-26094S
Klíčová slova: Mid Upper Palaeolithic * Central Europe * taphonomy * faunal remains * bone artefacts
Obor OECD: Archaeology
Způsob publikování: Open access

The paper presents a case study of three animal hard tissue objects from the Gravettian site of Dolní Věstonice II (Czech Republic), a beaver incisor, a wolf canine and a raven femur, bearing unusual modifications. Detailed archeozoological, archeological and experimental methods provide complex insights into the interpretation of human and non-human taphonomic impacts affecting the morphology of selected examples. In the case of the beaver incisor human manipulation was excluded. dentine modifications were caused by short-term malocclusion. The wolf canine bears traces of intentional raw material selection, changing the mechanical properties of the tooth, along with evidence of pressure causing its longitudinal pre-depositional breakage. The raven femur was freshly defleshed using a dihedral burin or other artefact with similar morphology in its cutting-edge shape.
Trvalý link: http://hdl.handle.net/11104/0329865