THE SO-CALLED DECORATED BONE CYLINDERS FROM RECENT PREHISTORY IN THE PROVINCE OF CADIZ

The decorated cylindrical objects, which have been manufactured in materials such as bone or ivory, which are located in the funerary offerings of agropastoral communities of recent prehistory, have a function yet to be determined. In this communication we present a detailed study of the four findings of this type of object in the province of Cadiz. We analyze the raw materials used and the production process carried out for the production of these objects (sawing, scraping, polishing and decorating); We carried out the morphotipometric study and the description of the contexts in which they were located, as well as the chronological-cultural attribution. All this has allowed us to obtain inferences that have enabled us to raise hypotheses about the function or functions that they had.