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INTRODUCTION - 3. Theoretical aspects of determining bone carving workshops

than to copy a relatively simple pattern with any pointed instrument. To sum it up: what required skill in producing combs — i. e. their structure — was Roman, and what was additional — representation — is alien, German or of even more distant inheritance from the Steppe. What is missing from ethnic components is the unknown effect of Celtic-Illyric native population.