Université de Bordeaux, CNRS UMR 5199 PACEA, Bât. B2, Allée Geoffroy Saint Hilaire, CS50023, Pessac 33600, France.
Shandong University, Institute of Cultural Heritage, Jimo-Binhai Highway 72, Qingdao 266237, China.
Sci Adv. 2023 Apr 14;9(15):eadg0834. doi: 10.1126/sciadv.adg0834. Epub 2023 Apr 12.
Puncture alignments are found on Palaeolithic carvings, pendants, and other fully shaped osseous artifacts. These marks were interpreted as abstract decorations, system of notations, and features present on human and animal depictions. Here, we create an experimental framework for the analysis and interpretation of human-made punctures and apply it to a highly intriguing, punctured bone fragment found at Canyars, an Early Upper Palaeolithic coastal site from Catalonia, Spain. Changes of tool and variation in the arrangement and orientation of punctures are consistent with the interpretation of this object as the earliest-known leather work punch board recording six episodes of hide pricking, one of which was to produce a linear seam. Our results indicate that Aurignacian hunters-gatherers used this technology to produce leather works and probably tailored clothes well before the introduction of bone eyed needles in Europe 15,000 years later.
在旧石器时代的雕刻、吊坠和其他完全成形的骨制制品上发现了穿孔排列。这些标记被解释为抽象装饰、符号系统以及人类和动物描绘的特征。在这里，我们创建了一个用于分析和解释人造穿孔的实验框架，并将其应用于在西班牙加泰罗尼亚的早期旧石器时代沿海遗址 Canyars 发现的一个非常有趣的穿孔骨碎片。工具的变化以及穿孔的排列和方向的变化，与将这个物体解释为最早的已知皮革工作冲孔板的观点一致，该冲孔板记录了六次皮革刺孔事件，其中一次是为了制作一条线性接缝。我们的研究结果表明，奥瑞纳文化时期的狩猎采集者使用这项技术来制作皮革制品，而且可能在 15000 年后欧洲引入骨制针之前就已经很好地制作了衣服。
