Istria - Basilica extra muros sector. Animal hard tissue artefacts discovered during the 2001-2004 campaigns Cover Image

Istria – Sectorul Basilica Extra Muros. Artefacte din materii dure animale descoperite în campaniile 2001–2004
Istria - Basilica extra muros sector. Animal hard tissue artefacts discovered during the 2001-2004 campaigns

Author(s): Corneliu Beldiman, Viorica Rusu-Bolindeţ, Alexandru Bădescu, Diana Maria Sztancs
Subject(s): Archaeology
Published by: Editura Academiei Române
Keywords: workshop;horn core;waste;bone pin;Istria;smoother, hard animal materials;bone

Summary/Abstract: Various bone and horn core artefacts (smoothers used possibly for processing leather or textiles; bone hairpins; raw materials - cattle and sheep/goat horn cores – probably for the manufacture of rings or handles) discovered in secondary contexts in the workshop area of the Basilica extra muros from Istria and systematically studied following the current field methodology, document for the first time in this Western Pontic site the processing of animal hard tissue during the 2nd C. AD.

  • Issue Year: 2008
  • Issue No: 4
  • Page Range: 39-59
  • Page Count: 21
  • Language: Romanian