Wild Boar Canine Implements from Drăgușeni
Wild Boar Canine Implements from Drăgușeni

Summary/Abstract: The goal of the present paper is to re-discuss the wild boar canine assemblage from the Cucuteni site at Drăgușeni-Ostrov. The archaeological research was carried out by S. Marinescu-Bîlcu and Al. Bolomey between 1970-1974 and 1979-1985. The assemblage is currently curated at the ‘Vasile Pârvan’ Institute of Archaeology, the Romanian Academy. The methodology used aimed to identify the products and byproducts of the operational schemes, as well as all the technological and use-wear marks. Also, we observed the manner the Cucuteni communities interacted with the animal environment, exploited its resources (in this case the wild boar) in order to manufacture the artefacts presented, and at times re-integrated these objects in the cycle of use. Future publications of similar assemblages would make a decisive contribution to our understanding of the exploitation patterns of the wild boar exploitation during the Cucuteni Eneolithic period.

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