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THEMATIC WORK SESSION 2 Exploitation of Hard Animal Materials During Neolithic and Chalcolithic Valahia University of Târgoviște, Romania, 5-9 November 2013 GDRE PREHISTOS – THEMATIC WORK SESSION 2 Exploitation of hard animal materials during Neolithic and Chalcolithic Valahia University of Târgoviște, Romania, 5-9 november 2013 PREVISIONAL PLANNING OF THE WEEK Tuesday (5 November) - Arrival at Târgoviște Wednesday (6 November) 1000 – 1030 Registration (Building K1, University Valahia of Târgoviște) 1030 – 1200 Opening ceremony (Building K, Blue Hall), discussions regarding the GDRE objectives, acomplishments, new projects etc. 00 00 12 -14 Lunch break 1400 – 1630 Session I 1630 – 1700 Coffee break 1700- 1830 Session II Thursday (7 November) 9h30- 1100 Session III 1100-1115 Coffee break 1115 – 1245 Session IV (free topics) 1245 – 1430 Lunch break 1430 – 1600 Session IV (free topics) 1600 – 1615 Coffee break 1615- 1815 Session IV (free topics) Friday (8 November) 1000 – 1300 Conclusions of the reunion, study of the archaeological collections from Targoviste 1300-1500 Lunch break 1500 – 1900 Visit at the medieval Princely Court from Târgoviște Saturday (9 November) Guests departure. We can leave from Targoviste in the morning, with a visit in Bucharest and, afterwards, in the evening, the departure to destination. 1str. Maior Alexandrescu, nr. 39, 130021,Targoviste, jud. Dâmbovița, Romania, tel. 0040724239760 (Monica Mărgărit) Wednesday (6 November) (1400-1630) Session I - Production Strategies during the Neolithic/Chalcolithic. The debitage by extraction: features, innovations, adaptations? Chair: Aline Averbouh 1400 – 1430 Nejma Goutas The extraction of baguette during the Gravettian: method of analysis and socioeconomic perspectives. Study case of the antler industries from the Isturitz cave (France) 1430 – 1500 Aline Averbouh and Petar Zidarov Beyond practicality : debitage by extraction for production of bone figurines in the Balkan Chalcolithic 1500 – 1530 Gaëlle Le Dosseur The production of baguettes in the Levant : variability of the methods from Natufian to Neolithic times. 1530 – 1600 Florian Mihail and Noelle Provenzano Evidences for extraction in the bone material belonging to the Gumelniţa culture, in the North of Dobrogea (Romania) 1600 – 1630 Zsuzsanna Toth Débitage par extraction in the Hungarian Neolithic (1700-1830) – Session II - Composite tools and hafting systems. The use of bevels. Chair: Alice Choyke 1700 – 1730 Monica Mărgărit Composite tools and hafting systems: harpoons used in the habitats of the Gumelniţa culture in the south of Romania 1730 – 1800 Zsuzsanna Toth Bevelled hafting systems in the Hungarian Neolithic 1800 – 1830 Alice Choyke Bone Tools as Markers of Cultural Continuity and Discontinuity: Győr-Szabadrét-domb, a Chalcolithic Settlement in Northwest Hungary Thursday (7 November) 930 – 1100 Session III - Adornments made of animal bone: esthetic, social and symbolic dimensions Chair: Valentina Voinea 930 – 1000 Valentina Voinea, Oana Grigoruţă and Cornelia Cărpuș A Study of the Adornments Found In the Hamangia Settlement from Cheia Village, Constanța County 1000 – 1030 Cătălin Lazăr, Monica Mărgărit and Adrian Bălășescu Trade and exchange in Prehistory. Personal adornments processed in hard animal materials from the Eneolithic necropolis of Sultana (Călărași County) 1030 – 1100 Monica Mărgărit, Valentin Radu and Dragomir Nicolae Popovici Production of pearls from opercular bones of Cyprinus carpio in the Eneolithic tell from Hârşova (Constanţa County) 1115 – 1245 Session IV – Free topics Chair: Natalia Skakun 1115 – 1145 Marin Cârciumaru, Corneliu Beldiman, Elena-Cristina Nițu, Minodora Cârciumaru Hard animal materials industry and portable art from Poiana Cireșului (Neamț County, Romania) 1145 –1215Adrian Bălășescu and Monica Mărgărit Domestic versus wild in the Neolithic of the Teleorman Valley 1215 – 1245 Zsuzsanna Toth Exploitation and economical importance of wild species in the worked osseous industry on some Hungarian Late Neolithic sites 1430 – 1815 Session IV – Free topics Chair : Gaëlle Le Dosseur 1430 – 1500 Natalia Skakun and Boriana Mateeva Artefacts made of bone and horn from the Chalcolithic site of Polianitsa in the North-East of Bulgaria 1500 – 1530 Valentin Radu Aquatic animals, a source of raw material for the hard animal materials industry during the Neolithic in Southern Romania 1530 – 1600 Laura Manca The production of bevelled tools on oyster shells : modalities and goals of this production during Early Chalcolithic in Sardinia 1615 – 1645 Andreea Vornicu Osseous industry in the Chalcolithic settlement of Târgu Frumos. A historical interpretation of the technological data 1645-1715 Cătălina Cernea, Florin Vlad and Radu Coman The end of the Eneolithic in the Bărăgan Plain: the hard animal material industry Cernavoda I culture from the settlement Săveni-La Movile, Ialomiţa County 1715 – 1745 Natalia Skakun, A. Samzun, B. Mateeva and V.Terekhina Knowledge of osseous materials during the age of the first metals (starting from the portable art from Bodaki, site of the Tripolje culture) 1745 – 1815 Taha Bushra Technological study of bone tools from a Neolithic site (Kamiltepe), Southern Caucasus region, and the mutual visible influences from different areas. ABSTRACTS Papers (in order of appearance) The extraction of baguette during the Gravettian: method of analysis and socioeconomic perspectives. Study case of the antler industries from the Isturitz cave (France) Nejma Goutas (CNRS, ArScan, UMR-7041) [email protected] The cave of Isturitz, situated in a key zone of western Pyrenees, in touch with plain of Aquitaine, the vasco-cantabrian ledge and the valley of the Ebro, is a vast cavity of about 2500 m². The strong attractiveness exercised by this cave on the palaeolithic human groups which frequented this zone was translated by the important archaeological sequence (from Mousterian to Azilian) which was brought to light in the first half of the XXth century. Gravettian, dated here between 26-24 Ka Uncal BP (Noaillien), is particularly well represented and delivered the most important corpus of osseous industry of France for this period. This industry forms a rather homogeneous group, in spite of the numerous problems of stratigraphy linked to the filling conditions of the cave and to the excavation methods used. The technological and economic analysis of this industry is likely to provide us good information as long as one keeps a critical approach and discusses the reliability of the studied assemblages. Within the framework of this paper, we shall see how thanks to the “mental refitting” method (Averbouh, 2000), it was possible to characterize the antler operating system and the palaeoethnological implications of this approach. The analysis of a major debitage process, the extraction of baguette by groove and splinter technique”, has shown that Gravettians sought to produce a large number of predetermined and relatively straight blanks (“baguettes”). These were used to manufacture many projectile points and tools. Their abundance with regard to the manufacturing wastes suggests a production partially realized off the site and a transport of pieces (in the state of blanks or finished objects) inside the cave. The division in time and space of the operational sequence of antler exploitation is consistent with the hypothesis of some planning of production and consumption. This anticipation of needs is also revealed by the presence of exogenous lithic materials and shed antlers gathered. Beyond practicality : debitage by extraction for production of bone figurines in the Balkan Chalcolithic Aline Averbouh (CNRS – TRACES, France) [email protected] Petar Zidarov (NBU Sofia, Bulgary) [email protected] At the end of the Ve millenium BC, some european societies experienced radical transformations from a technical point of view (invention of metallurgy), as from an economical (intensification and specialization of production, development of long-distance trade) and social point of view (very marked differentiation of wealth between individuals and groups). The Balkan Peninsula is the cradle of this evolution and home to a vast cultural entity called "ceramic graphite zone" that extends chronologically throughout the Bulgarian Eneolithic (4000 BC to 3500 BC not cal) and geographically on the current northeast of Greece, Bulgaria, southern Romania and south east of Yugoslavia. The production of anthropomorphic statuettes is one of the marker elements of this cultural entity’s homogeneity. Among different materials used (clay, gold, marble), bone occupies a significant place for the production of figurines both in the domestic context and in the funerary context. Most of these pieces show, with the waste attached to their production, the use of extraction to produce their blanks. This is what we intend to present in this Worksession. Our presentation is based on the study of material coming from Bulgarian sites (tells and necropolis of Varna-Goljamo Delcevo, Hotnitsa). The production of baguettes in the Levant : variability of the methods from Natufian to Neolithic times Gaëlle Le Dosseur [email protected] In the Levant, the exploitation of animal hard materials for tools and personal adornments develops and florishes only from the Natufian onwards (13000-9600 cal BC). At that time, the equipment is diversifying while a wide range of techniques, processes and methods is set to achieve it. The Neolithic is then a period of stabilization of all this repertoire, however marked by some adaptations. From the Natufian to Neolithic times, the production of certain items (straight hooks, thin awls, flat knives ...)
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