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A horn worth blowing? A stray find of aurochs from Hungary

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

László Bartosiewicz
László Bartosiewicz*
Affiliation:
Institute of Archaeological Sciences, Loránd Eötvös University, H-1364 Budapest, POB 107, Hungary. H10459BAR@ELLA.HU
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Three aurochs horn cores, unearthed during the construction of the city baths in Vác (Hungary), were purchased from a private collector in 1951. One of these stray finds deserves attention in light of new archaeozoological research, and the relation between mundane horn manufacturing and high-status medieval craft industries.

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Antiquity , Volume 71 , Issue 274 , December 1997 , pp. 1007 - 1010
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd. 1997

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