[Bonetools] bird ulnae flutes

[Etan Ayalon]

Dear Christian,

Several flutes made from bird bones are known from Israel. A Roman flute of stork(?) bone was found in Tel Abu Shushe (Gabba); A recent Beduin flute made from eagle's wing bone is exhibited in the Joe Alon Center's Museum of Beduin Culture, Lahav, Israel. Both were published by me in: E. Ayalon and C. Sorek, Bare Bones, Ancient Artifacts from Animal Bones (exhibition catalogue). Tel Aviv 1999, p. 46.

An Early Arab (8th-10th cent. CE) flute from eagle or stork ulna was found in Caesarea Maritima and published, with parallels, in my book: E. Ayalon, The Assemblage of Bone and Ivory Artifacts from Caesarea Maritima, Israel, 1st-13th Centuries CE (BAR Int. Ser. 1457), Oxford 2005, pp. 69-70 and Fig. 26:269.

I'm happy you work on flutes now; they are certainly better for the safety of your own bones than the skates...

Etan 

 

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Subject: [Bonetools] bird ulnae flutes

 

Dear all,

 

I would be grateful for references and other information about 

archaeological and ethnographic finds of bone flutes made from bird 

ulnae, particularly from crane (Grus spec.) from the Mediterranean, Asia 

Minor and Central Asia.

 

Thanks in advance

 

Christian

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