Every time we get a glimpse into the world of prehistoric objects of wood,antler, textiles and so on we are astonished.
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However, on the following page it is revealed that the boy has not grabbed branches, but rather a deer's antlers.
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It is in the context of these patterns of activity that theantlerfrontlets must be considered.
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The introduction of new materials, such as bone, wood, andantler, may reflect the search for greater power, distance, or control of performance.
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The unusual depositionary practices at the site seem particularly focused on objects made from the antlers of red deer.
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Other punches were made from deerantlertines.
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The branches turn out to be a deer's antlers.
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Mating behaviour often involves displays of cumbersome feathers or antlers, or profligacy with food.
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At all these sites combinations of one or more of large quantities of barbed points, animal teeth beads andantlerfrontlets were recovered from aquatic deposits.
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The remains included various invertebrates (gastropods, bivalves, and coral, all classified as shell) and skeletal elements from all vertebrate classes (including bones, teeth, and antlers, all classified as bone).
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Living things have external references to each other : the flower to the insect, the colour red to being poisonous to eat, antlers to the mating season.
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Connections between two of these artefact types - theantlerfrontlets and barbedantlerpoints - suggest that some of these items at least retained a strong sense of their 'animalness'.
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Antleralso appears to have had a special connection with the site.
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I have argued that this special treatment was accorded to red deerantlerbecause the antlers were part of an explicit renegotiation of the boundaries of the human body.
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These provisions set detailed requirements for all species of animals and for deer, their transportation would be prohibited when antlers are in velvet.
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