Wyroby z kości i poroża z osiedla obronnego ludności kultury łużyckiej w Biskupinie

Opis książki:

The present study focuses on selected issues associated with production of antler and bone artefacts in Lusatian culture during the Hallstatt period. Analysis is made of antler and bone objects recovered at the Early Iron Age (Hallstatt C) fortified settlement at Biskupin, district Żnin, in North-Eastern part of Great Poland, excavated in the years 1934-1939, 1941-1942, 1946-1960, 1966, 1970-1974. Nest to pottery and consumption debris, antler and bone are the largest category of finds registered at the site.
Due to the wartime depredations and poor storage conditions in the post-1945 period a large number of antler and bone artefacts was lost; some of the surviving material is no longer valuable as a source of information because records of its stratigraphy is missing. Moreover, over long years in storage some of the "Lusatian" artefacts became mixed up with finds from other periods, mainly Early Medieval material. With the patchy stratigraphic record insubstantial typological and chronological variations of some forms (eg Awls and Gravers) made identification of all antler and bone objects belonging to Lusatian culture impossible. All that remains at present of Lusatian antler and bone objects from Biskupin probably represents only a quarter of all evidence of this type recovered at the site.
The analysis focused on the entire currently available material, attributable relatively soundly to Lusatian culture: 981 artefacts and their fragments, 372 waste pieces, fragments of unworked antler and bone and roughouts of obscure form and function.
The material was classified into four categories: Tools, Weapons, Parts of Horses Bridle, and Ornaments, some of which are further subdivided into types and subtypes. The classification based on the criterion of morphology and the function - identified or inferred - of individual artefacts.

Książka "Wyroby z kości i poroża z osiedla obronnego ludności kultury łużyckiej w Biskupinie" - Anna Drzewicz - oprawa miękka - Wydawnictwo Naukowe Semper.