Jens NotroffNaughty boy, this is not your chew bone! 🐶🦴
Among the many fascinating finds from the so-called #Shaman of #BadDürrenberg's burial, a large #BoneAwl may tell a little #SundayArchaeology story of a #Mesolithic #dog ... who was not a good boy.
5 bone awls were buried with the #shamaness at #BadDürrenberg, some even decorated.
The largest of them shows gnawing marks left by a #dog. Not very extensive, but visible. Seems, *someone* tried to make off with a nice catch - but got caught himself, the little tool retrieved.
These #BoneAwls and other related "Analyses of #Mesolithic grave goods from upright seated individuals in Central #Germany" have been published by J. M. Grünberg et al. in a contribution to an edited volume on "Mesolithic #burials" in 2016:
More on the extraordinary burial of the #Mesolithic #BadDürrenberg "#shamaness" and latest analyses of this spectacular find from central #Germany have been reported recently e.g. here in #Archaeology Mag by @spoke32:
https://www.archaeology.org/issues/501-2303/features/11195-germany-mesolithic-shaman-burial
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