Red Deer Antler Artefacts from Gordineşti II- ”Stînca goală” and Vynnyky-”Zhupan”

Shape-and-Trace Formation Processes in Natural, Functional and Depositional Contexts

Datos Bibliográficos

ID11012707
AutoresWalenty Pankowski (0000-0001-7821-9190), Małgorzata Rybicka (0000-0001-9889-3481, Rzeszów University), Joanna Piątkowska-Małecka (0000-0002-2269-2736, University of Warsaw)
Año2024
Volumen76
Número1
Páginas533-553
Fecha de publicación2024-10-14
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaSprawozdania Archeologiczne (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0081-3834 • E-ISSN: 2719-647X
EditorialInstitute of Archeology and Ethnology of the Polish Academy of Sciences (PUBLISHER • PL)
DOI10.23858/sa/76.2024.1.3547
OpenAlexW4403387378
IdiomaEN
Referencias citadas7

The paper scrutinizes the red deer hard tissues from the contexts attributed to the Trypillia Culture’s final phases. Having once been reported elsewhere, the objects under study are this time conceptualized in terms of shape-and trace formation processes, with an eye to incorporating them into research advances under the topic of the late Trypillia transformation, including typological affiliation, radiocarbon dating, archaeoecology, subsistence studies, etc. Particular attention is paid to artefacts that lack the overwhelming power of the tiniest wear marks, but do display extensive topographic features of manufacture and use. The formalized shape-and-trace aspects for the antler artefacts are proposed, which are considered to be suitable rather for a morphological than for a morphographicsystematization of a prehistoric antler assemblage. An interpretative application of the shape-and-trace approach for the sake of clarification of both past currents in morphogenesis of artefacts and praxis of their use is only possible in a systemic context of knowledge about habitats and lifestyles of the past

Antler · Biology · Cervus elaphus · Linguistics · Natural (archaeology) · Sedimentary depositional environment · TRACE (psycholinguistics) · Trace fossil · Ancient and Medieval Archaeology Studies · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies · Ecology · Geology · Paleontology · Philosophy · Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology