[Bonetools] bird ulnae flutes

[Etan Ayalon]

Dear Christian
I'm not sure there are more copies of my catalogue. I'll send you a photocopy of these pages by airmail. Anyhow, some guys in Europe have it and if you plan to attend the next conference one can bring it to you.
Etan

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From: bonetools-bounces at listserv.iif.hu [mailto:bonetools-bounces at listserv.iif.hu] On Behalf Of Christian K?chelmann
Sent: Monday, May 14, 2007 3:49 PM
To: Mailing list for archaeologists of the research group for the study ofobject and waste of bone, antler. ivory and horn.
Subject: Re: [Bonetools] bird ulnae flutes

Dear Etan,

nice to hear from you again. Your examples sound indeed extremely 
interesting. The flute find I have to work on is from a 14th century 
deposit from Northern Germany, but zoological as well as typological 
features point towards a Mediterranean or even Asian origin. It is from 
a castle site and it may have to do something with a crusade context, so 
I would be very interested in your Israelian finds. I may be able to 
track down your BAR volume, but it would certainly be difficult to get 
the exhibition catalogue. Could you provide me with a copy (if you add 
your international bank account number I can directly pay on your account)?

 > I'm happy you work on flutes now; they are certainly better for the
 > safety of your own bones than the skates?
That may be true but as I am definitely no musician and can get only 
ugly squeeky noises out of flutes, skating is surely more fun...

All the best

Christian

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Etan Ayalon schrieb:
> 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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