Discussions on a bone tool from Ipoteşti, Olt County

Abstract

The paper discusses a specific type of deer antler artefacts suggesting its association with the artefacts known as Knotenloser, which were specific to a certain cultural environment, namely the Avars. Its unusual presence at one of the eponymous settlements of the Ipotesti-Cândesti culture at the Lower Danube, is discussed on several plans. The paper suggests the item was an import from the cultural environment of the Middle Danube. The author doubts the possibility that the characteristics and expressiveness of this artefact category observed in the Avaric environment were preserved, maintained and embodied by the artefact found in another cultural environment, that of the Lower Danube.