Savaria - A Vas Megyei Múzeumok értesítője 30. (2006) (Szombathely, 2007)

Régészet - Choyke, Alice: A mindennapi élet és halál árnyjátékai: Gór–Kápolnadomb a proto-lengyeli kultúrában

Alice M. Choyke: Shadows of Daily Life and Death at the Proto-Lengyel Site of Gór-Kápolnadomb This object was used for some kind of short term activities, for example coiled basket-making. There is no evidence, however, that it was used in more robust activities involving percussion such as punching through thick hide. 4. Spatula. (Schibler type 12, 1981) Measurements: GL= 62.7 mm (incomplete length); GB= 18.0 mm; GD= 6.1 mm; LSD= 8.0 mm; GSB= 11.7 mm. Large ruminant rib corpus fragment, Upper part feature 1 (first level) (Figure 4b). Unfinished tool. Manufacturing technique: Ruminant rib is particularly well suited to producing spatulas of various kinds. During the Late Neolithic and into the following Chalcolithic period spatulas were often pointed to varying degrees on one end; much like this specimen. Typically for the period, the rib was split and the pointed end shaped by grinding with an abrasive material like sandstone to create a pointed end. Work was also begun on this specimen to smooth and flatten the rough substantia spongiosa of the inside of the rib although the tool apparently suffered material failure before it could be finished. It was then thrown away with no attempt to re-work the spatula into something else. It is a typical planned or Class I tool type from this and the following Chalcolithic period, at least in Transdanubia (CHOYKE 1997b, 2001). Use wear: Since the tool is unfinished there is naturally no evidence of either use or handling wear. Re-working: There is no evidence of any attempt to re-work the tool at the break where the bone failed during manufacturing. Objects of this type are common in the Late Neolithic and Chalcolithic of Transdanubia and elsewhere in the region such as Serbia (BACKALOV 1979; ELSTER 2001; RUSSELL 1990). Pointed spatulas appear more characteristic of the Carpathian Basin and the Balkans compared to contemporary sites in Western Europe although the paucity of good published assemblage reports makes this somewhat difficult to state with certainty. Certainly no work has been carried out concerning how such objects might have been used. 5. Worked wild boar tusk tool. (Schibler type 17, 1981) Measurements: GL= N.A; GB= 10.0 mm; GD- 4.8 mm; LSD= 6.0 mm; Btip= 3.2 mm. Wild boar {Sus scrofa ferous Linnaeus 1758), Feature 1. Broken and burned. Manufacturing technique: The large lower tusks of wild boar and primitive forms of domestic male pigs are hollow and made of hard enamel. It was considered a valuable raw material and generally manufacturing techniques were very careful. In prehistoric times such tusks were regularly split and the edges of the split scraped smooth by scraping with a chipped stone tool. The edges of this specimen also seem to have been shaped along the edge of the long axis of the tool by scraping. The most typical shape in the Late Neolithic in the Carpathian Basin was a curving S-shape. It is a typical planned or Class I tool type (CHOYKE 1997b, 2001) from earliest Neolithic times into the Late Bronze Age. 100