Histria – Acropolă Centru-Sud. Date asupra artefactelor din materii dure animale (II)
Histria – Acropolis Centre-South. Data on bone and antler artefacts (II)

Summary/Abstract: The article offers the extensive primary research data of the assemblage from 2017 archaeological campaign, comprising 19 pieces. The typological categories are: adornments-accessories (bone hair pins – 2; decorated red deer plate – 1); hafts (bone haft – 1), blanks (red deer blank – 1) and debris (12). The local processing of osseous materials (bone, red deer antler) is taken into account. The artefacts have been made probably within mixt workshops (metal, wood, bone etc.) where various tools, accessories from different raw materials etc. have been produced. The technical solutions of manufacture have been defined using microscopic analysis. Artefacts are dated from Roman and Roman-Byzantine period (2nd–6th century AD). Further chronological data cannot be formulated due to the disturbed context of last occupational levels and standardised parameters of the artefacts. Artefacts made of osseous raw materials which were studied on this occasion offer important typological and technological benchmarks for a complex and extensive approach of the civilisation and culture of the Histrian communities during Roman and Roman-Byzantine period.

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