Industria materiilor dure animale din situl preistoric de la Șoimești – Merez (jud. Prahova)

Abstract

Archaeological assemblage in this study comes from the pluristratified prehistoric site of Șoimești – Merez (Prahova County). The pieces were discovered in habitation levels attributed to the Early Bronze Age and in an inhumation grave. From bone, pointed tools were mostly made, followed by perforated phalanges, bevelled tools and a needle, while from antler a bevelled tool was processed, and from tooth a scraper and a pendant. In the grave together with other pieces of funerary inventory (vessels, silver ring, copper artefacts), mammal tooth pendants, circular shell beads and tubular shell beads were deposited. All the pieces were investigated both macroscopically and microscopically with the aim of reconstructing the raw materials transformation technological schemes as well as the ways of use suggested by the development of the functional marks. Finally, starting from the typology of the pieces found in the prehistoric site of Șoimești, we looked for analogies in contemporary cultural contexts.

Keywords

• bronze age
• bone
• antler
• technological scheme
• functional hypotheses