Bone objects of Urartian Period

Bone and horn have been used in the production of products such as jewelery, weaving tools, weapons, agricultural tools, cosmetic boxes from the Paleolithic to the Middle Ages. Ancient societies benefited from the bones and horns of the animals they hunted. Urartian Kingdom has left a lot of important works of art in mining, stone, ivory and bone processing in 9-7 century BCE. These raw materials, especially bone and horn gives information used of Urartu hand tools and art of Urartian. 119 bone objects of Urartu Period are important works in which typological diversity, processing techniques and cultural communication are observed. It is seen that the bone and horn are among the raw materials of the Urartu Period. Beads, gem, figurines , seals, horse bit, kohl tubes, ornament works are produced in many different areas such as works. This shows that the Urartu Period was at an advanced level in bone and horn processing, which is a different craft arm. However, no studies have been conducted on bone and horn artifacts. In fact, some objects from the 5000 BC in Anatolia continue to be used by the Urartian artisans until the use of extremely interesting data reveals. These substances, still in use from the Middle Ages to the present day used today in combs, cane ornaments.