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The over two hundred late Chalcolithic and Early Bronze Age bone,antler and tusk tools from the upland seasonal occupation at Godezor in south Armenia represent a new data point on the scholarly bone tool map of this period in the southern Caucasus region.Although there is little contemporary comparative material,some useful information can be gleaned from this material.Based on form and macro wear (10 × to 20 ×),it appears that many of these objects may have been used in spinning and weaving activities.It is also clear that the small pastoralist groups that returned to the upland settlement seasonally were connected to broad horizons of manufacturing traditions further to the west as well as probably to other established spheres of production elsewhere.The wear on these objects shows some came from outside the settlement from more distant regions and more sophisticated workshop environments,perhaps located in the urban centers in Northern Iran.There are currently no published assemblages of worked bone from Late Chalcolithic urban centers in northern Iran.Other objects from Godezor are less well thought out,more ad hoc,and can be connected to daily activities during the local seasonal occupation.The assemblage on the whole reflects exactly the kinds of objects,both sophisticated and simple,connected widely and also intensely local that one would expect to result from a seasonal occupation by transhumant pastoralists.