Gáti Csilla (szerk.): A Janus Pannonius Múzeum Évkönyve 54., 2016-2017 (Pécs, 2017)

RÉGÉSZET - Jovan D. Mitrović – Selena Vitezović: Zók revisited: Excavations of D. Karapandžić at Zók in 1920

Zók revisited: Excavations of D. Karapandžić at Zók in 1920

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Beside ceramic artefacts, the material from Zók that is kept today in the National Museum in Belgrade also included rich osteological findings. ?ese included relatively large quantity of faunal remains, though selected–complete and large skeletal elements from domestic and wild mammals: ribs, long bones, mandibles, teeth, antlers, horn cores, etc. from sheep/goats, cattle, domestic pigs, wild boars, red deer, roe deer, etc., and also few fish remains.

Furthermore, over 200 artefacts from osseous raw materials were noted–

from bone, antler and boar tusks. ?e material was hand- collected and it appears to have been selected–only the more- less complete bone and antler artefacts, as well as larger pieces of antler with manufacturing traces–raw material pieces and debris (

Vitezović – Mitrović 2016). ?ese findings are particularly important since the osseous industry in the Metal Ages in the south-east Europe is still not sufficiently known, especially when it concerns Eneolithic and Early Bronze Age. Antler artefacts include relatively large quantity of raw material pieces–

segments of the base, beam and tines, both from shed and unshed antlers (

bois de chute and bois du massacre

) and they belong mainly to red deer (

Cervus elaphus

), although some were from roe deer (

Capreolus capreolus

). Some of these pieces have very fine, well preserved traces of diverse technical procedures used during the manufacturing process: direct and indirect percussion, and grooving, combined technique of grooving with cutting or direct percussion, sawing, and perforating. ?ey are an important testimony of the presence of a workshop or a working place for producing antler artefacts within the Zók settlement (Fig. 7/ 1). Finished items include points and punches from antler tines, hammers and combined heavy percussion tool made from base and beam segments, axes, Fig. 7: Red deer antler segment with traces of cutting and perforating (1), and combined tool for cutting and percussion made from red deer antler (2) (Property of National Museum in Belgrade, Serbia)

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