Matière, artefact, symbole. Dents percées et imitations en os dans les dépôts d’objets de prestige de la culture Cucuteni
Raw material, artifact, symbol. Adornment on perforated teeth and imitations in the treasures with prestige goods of the Cucuteni culture

Summary/Abstract: The article offer a detailed analysis of the perforated adornment manufactured on animal and human teeth (most of them red deer canines; a human molar; 50 teeth from small unidentified mammals), as well as the bone imitations of the red deer canines. All of them were discovered in the inventory of 6 spectacular treasures discovered on the territory of Romania (Ariuşd, Brad, Hăbăşeşti, Izvoare) and the territory of Republic of Moldavia (Cărbuna, Chetroşica) and belonging to the Cucuteni Culture (Vth-IVth millennia B.C.). The methodological issue is based on the actual international approaches and is focused on various quantifiable paleotechnological aspects as: raw materials, specific stages of manufacture, functional role of the artifacts.

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