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

[Douglas Campana]

I would be very interested in hearing more about this too.

Pam Crabtree
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> Dear Pamela Cross, if  you  are interested in Anglo-Saxon horse burials do 
> oyu know the work of Chris Fern, based in York, who has researched  and 
> published on this topic? ( eg paper in  Anglo-Saxon Studies in Archaeology 
> and history vol 14 ed Semple and Williams)  Could  you let me know more 
> about the  high status Anglo-Saxon  female burial in East Anglia?  Horse 
> burials have been predominantly associated with male AS inhumations 
> although they do occur with both sexes in cremations.
> Catherine hills
>
> --On Wednesday, December 2, 2009 11:57 -0500 PajX at aol.com wrote:
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>> Dear Dr. Olsen
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>> Thank you so much for those references. I've read some of your other
>> papers, particularly, Horses and Humans. I've just had a look at your
>> site at Carnegie, and will examine the ref's you recommend and others
>> from your publications.  I'm very interested in All Warriors Male? and
>> Ritual and Horses in Bronze Age.  One of the new sites I'm looking at has
>> a burial which appears to feature a high status female (AS period) buried
>> with a horse - the only such burial in the UK that I'm aware of at this
>> time.  There are a number of local traditions about a high lady in the
>> area and it's located interestingly enough in the area of the Iceni and
>> good old Boudicca.
>>
>> I got a chance to talk briefly with Lazlo Bartosiewicz at this year's
>> EAA, which had some great presentations this year. I can access the
>> articles and the BAR, but it seems I will have to do an IL loan for those
>> two very interesting sounding volumes.
>>
>> Thanks again for your suggestions
>>
>> best regards
>> Pam
>>
>> Pamela J Cross
>> Archaeo-osteology
>> University of Bradford
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