At Clos de Poujol, dated from 8,300 to 7,200 cal. BC, thousands of small burnt fragments of Cervid antler were identified in the faunal material recovered from the sorting of the sieving. Only a very small number of items had initially been identified as part of a bone and antler industry and the proportion of Red Deer bone remains is very low in the faunal assemblages. How to interpret this situation? On the one hand, antlers - considered as a Cervid skeletal part - are relevant to any zooarchaeological study. On the other hand, they are of interest to the specialist of osseous industry as an exploited material (item or waste). As indirect evidence, these remains can help to understand the nature of archaeological deposits and the status of the site. A study of the osseous material integrating the economic, technological and contextual aspects provides clues on the ways to articulate the technological and economic systems. Our analysis documents a strategy of Red Deer exploitation characterized by two distinct procurement patterns: hunting of young females or stags in cast antler stage, on the one hand, and collecting of shed antlers, on the other hand. Such procurements, if embedded, could have taken place at the end of winter or during the spring. As it was not possible to reconstruct the whole chaîne opératoire (stricto sensu), assumptions were made, based on an assessment of the minimal number of antlers, the under-representation of antler tips and the composition of antler and bone industry, in order to figure out if shed antlers were brought to the site complete or not, how they were transformed (manufacturing and combustion process), and eventually if some parts were taken away.