A collection of artefacts made from boar tusks. From the trypillia culture settlement at „Berezovskaya Ges”
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.26485/AAL/2022/68/11Keywords:
Chalcolithic, Ukraine, forest-steppe Bug region, settlement «Berezovskaya GES», wild boar, canines, tools, technological and use-wear analysis, experimental work.Abstract
The aim of this paper is to present to the academic community previously unpublished materials from the excavation of a settlement at «Berezovskaya GES» belonging to the Trypillia culture, located in the forest-steppe Bug region. The group of materials under study is а collection of tools made from wild boar tusk. The assembly comprises a large number of tools with varying degrees of use-wear, among them are preforms, blanks and debris. The tools underwent technical, morphological and traceological studies with the results being discussed in the article.
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