The reuse of long bones as tools in the Neolithic site of La Draga (Banyoles, Catalonia): Discrete tools that are not so easy to identify

The integration of the study of bone tools in archaeozoologic analysis is necessary to interpret the animal resources management with no partial views. In this sense, this is what we tried to do in the Neolithic site of La Draga (Banyoles, Catalonia), with the aim of going deeper in the comprehension of the use these people did with animal resources. This has given us a holistic vision and a new perspective on bone tools used.

The utilization of bones results of the ingestion consume as tools is an aspect of bone artefacts study that so many times has been overlooked. In this poster we analyse confection (fractures, preferment skeletal elements…) and use (worked raw materials, work duration…) of this “discrete” tools from the archaeological record form an archaeozoologic and technologic point of view.

The search of the use (function) despite the form (morphology/typology), has shown us that much more bone tools were used in this Neolithic settlement to work on different raw materials. And the integration of worked bone tools in a archaeozoologic analysis, has permitted us localize different tools production steps no so easy to identify in a separate study. We present all result obtained in this poster.