[Bonetools] Horse bone: tools, decorative plates and other uses?

[Sandra Olsen]

Dear Pam:
Here are a few articles that might interest you:

Olsen, S. L.  2008 
This Old Thing?  Copper Age Fashion Comes to Life. Archaeology 61 (1):
46-47. (horse phalanx figurines) (attached proofs don¹t have full captions)
 
Olsen, S.L. and D. Harding 2008
Women¹s Attire and Possible Sacred Role in 4th Millennium Northern
Kazakhstan. In K. Linduff and K. Rubinson (eds.), Are All Warriors Male?
Gender Roles on the Ancient Eurasian Steppe.  Lanham, MD: Rowman and
Littlefield, Lexington Books, and Madison Books, 67-92.  (horse phalanx
figurines)
 
F. Allard, D. Erdenebaatar, S. Olsen, A. Caralla, and E. Maggiore 2007
Ritual and Horses in Bronze Age and present-day Mongolia: Some Preliminary
Observations from Khanuy Valley. In Laura Popova, Charles Hartley, and Adam
Smith (eds.), Social Orders and Social Landscapes: Proceedings of the 2005
University of Chicago Conference on Eurasian Archaeology. Newcastle upon
Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Press.  (horse head and neck burials in large
numbers)

Olsen, S.L. 2001  
The importance of thong-smoothers at Botai, Kazakhstan.  In A. Choyke and L.
Bartosiewicz (eds.), Crafting Bone: Skeletal Technologies through Time and
Space.  BAR International Series 937, Oxford, pp. 197-206. (tools made on
horse mandibles)

Olsen, S.L. 1994 
Exploitation of mammals at the Early Bronze Age site of West Row Fen
(Mildenhall 165), Suffolk, England.  Annals of the Carnegie Museum
63(2):115-153.  (a small number of horse bones at the site)


On 12/2/09 2:54 AM, "pajx at aol.com" <pajx at aol.com> wrote:

> Dear forum members
>  
> I'm researching the uses made of horse materials and would appreciate any
> insight, references, examples (drawings or photos), or interesting sites.
>  
> My principal area of research is:
> 1. Britain, 1st millennium AD.
> 2. Europe and time periods which bracket; Iron Age/pre-15thC.
>  
> But if you have info on horse bone use from any time or geography, I'm still
> interested - particularly ethnographic sources.
>  
> I do apologise for my lack of language skills, but I can only read English
> with ease -- though graphics from any source are always useful and I can
> manage small amounts of German and Spanish/French.
>  
> I'm aware of the work on metapodial skates, and MacGregor 1985.
>  
> best regards
> Pam
>  
> Pamela J Cross
> Bradford UK
> 
> 
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