These items include elephant tusks, skins of felidae (cat), reptiles, chinchilla and others, and deer antlers.
I have argued that this special treatment was accorded to red deer antler because the antlers were part of an explicit renegotiation of the boundaries of the human body.
Antler also appears to have had a special connection with the site.
Connections between two of these artefact types - the antler frontlets and barbed antler points - suggest that some of these items at least retained a strong sense of their 'animalness'.
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.
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).
At all these sites combinations of one or more of large quantities of barbed points, animal teeth beads and antler frontlets were recovered from aquatic deposits.
Mating behaviour often involves displays of cumbersome feathers or antlers, or profligacy with food.
