Proceedings and query

[alice]

Dear Colleagues,
        We are picking though the papers slowly.We hope to begin
sending them out slowly from next week to you for correction. If any
of you have changed addresses please let me know so we can send
the proofs to the right place.
        Below is a question I read on another archaeozoological mailing
list and I forward it to you for interest and in the hope you can help.

Alice





Date sent:              Wed, 20 Sep 2000 11:56:02 -0700
From:                   Dave Maxwell <dmaxwell at sricrm.com>
Subject:                Sea Urchin Spines as Tools
To:                     zooarch at mailbase.ac.uk
Send reply to:          Dave Maxwell <dmaxwell at sricrm.com>
Has anyone ever come across any references to sea urchin spines
being used as tools?  I am working on a project on San Nicolas
Island (southern Channel Islands, southern California), and we have
a bunch of urchin spines that appear to have been used, we think,
as drills for producing shell beads
.  I'm trying to find any kind of comparative materials.


Thanks.

David Maxwell
Statistical Research, Inc.
Burnaby, BC, Canada