Mesolithic engraved bone pins: the art of fashion at Téviec (Morbihan, France)
Résumé
The revisiting of the Téviec bone material by means of technological analysis, including taphonomy and usewear, enabled us to separate bone implements from the rest of the osseous material discovered in Mesolithic burials at this site. As a result, we find that pointed pieces made from animal bones were associated with the deceased regardless of their age or gender. Except for five such pieces recognized by the excavators, the points or awls were all engraved (up to 14 to date). Engravings in the form of a series of notches on the point are interpreted as decorative. It turns out that such objects were intended for a functional purpose: to act as a safety pin for holding garments together on the body. A pairing of such points has even been attested along with other objects that constituted personal ornaments of some children. This suggests that wearing bone pins was common across age groups and was an expression of fashion or could act as a group identity marker at the end of the sixth millennium cal BC. In this regard, the bone technology supports a socio-cultural regionalism present in Brittany at the end of the Mesolithic.
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Cite hal-04888849 Objet présenté à une conférence Éva David. Par delà les mers - Les pratiques funéraires tévieciennes à travers le comportement technique. Journée scientifique de l’UMR 7194 HNHP MNHN, Ewa Dashek; Amélie Vialet, Jan 2025, Paris (Institut de paléontologie humaine), France. ⟨hal-04888849⟩
Étude d’objets du MAN et du musée de Carnac par Éva David
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Cite hal-01548531 Chapitre d'ouvrage Éva David. The Bone Pins from Téviec (Morbihan, France) Illuminate Mesolithic Social Organization. Mesolithic Burials - Rites, Symbols and Social Organisation of Early Postglacial Communities, II, J.M. Grünberg, B. Gramsch, L. Larsson, J. Orschiedt, H. Meller, pp.609-628, 2017, Tagungen Des Landesmuseums Für Vorgeschichte Halle, 978-3-944507-43-9. ⟨hal-01548531⟩
Étude d’objets du MAN par Éva David
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Cite hal-03885067 Objet présenté à une conférence Grégor Marchand, Éva David, Aimee Little, Solange Rigaud, Anne Tresset, et al.. Téviec revisited ‘The best wine comes from old bottles’. 18th UISPP Congres - Session 20/2-Shell mounds, shell middens and coastal resources (G. Bailey et al. org.), Jun 2018, Paris, France. ⟨hal-03885067⟩
Étude d’objets du MAN par Éva David
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Cite hal-03885017 Objet présenté à une conférence Éva David, Aimee Little, Grégor Marchand, Solange Rigaud. From the use of things to the status of the dead: Téviec and Hoëdic (Brittany). EAA 4-9 Sept. 2018 Barcelona, Spain - Session 745: Grave Good Biographies, Sep 2018, Barcelona, Spain. ⟨hal-03885017⟩
Étude d’objets du MAN par Éva David
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Cite halshs-03923032 Objet présenté à une conférence Éva David. Over sees, the Teviecian funerary practices through technical behaviour. 8th International Conference on the Mesolithic in Europe, P. Arias, Sep 2010, Santander, Spain. pp.610-618. ⟨halshs-03923032⟩
Étude d’objets du MAN par Éva David
