In this paper will be offered an overview of the available data on the bone industries in the Eneolithic period from diverse cultures that inhabited the area of the South-East Europe, more specifically, of the south Carpathian basin and the Balkans.

Additional problem concerns the available material often the assemblages are incomplete, originating from excavations carried out in the 19th and in the first half 20th century, when the faunal material was not carefully recovered, but only selected items, and the information about the context is incomplete. Unfortunately, the osseous industry in the Eneolithic period is not very well studied in particular for the area of the South Carpathian basin and the Balkans analysed assemblages are only few, and the synthetic studies are almost non-existing.

Although their role changed with the introduction of the new raw materials, especially with the development of the metallurgy, they were in the later prehistoric periods still used for production of a variety of artefacts – everyday tools, weapons, as well as decorative and non-utilitarian items. Stojan Dimitrijevi is the author of Prapovijest (3.74 avg rating, 19 ratings, 1 review, published 1998), Vuedolska kultura (0.0 avg rating, 0 ratings. Gorjanovi-Kramberger, ivot i kultura diluvijalnog ovjeka iz Krapine u Hrvatskoj (Djela.

Osseous raw materials were very important throughout prehistory, since the Lower Palaeolithic. Knji ga j e obj avlj ena uz novanu potporu Ministarstva kulture i Min istarstva znanosti Republike Hrvatske Stojan Tihomila Nives Dimitrijevi Teak- Majnari Gregl Pandi. Dimitrijevi et al., Prapovijest Zagreb, 1998.

Prapovijest by Stojan Dimitrijević