[Bonetools] Fwd: Re: neolithic human teeth as personal ornaments

[Alice Choyke]

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From: Heidi Luik <heidi.luik at mail.ee>
Date: Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 12:01 PM
Subject: Fwd: Re: [Bonetools] neolithic human teeth as personal ornaments
To: Alice Choyke <h13017cho at iif.hu>


Dear Alice,
I tried to send an answer to Francois Poplin to the bonetools list, but it
seems it did not work. Could you please forward my answer to the list.
Thank you in advance and all best wishes,
Heidi


 Date: Thu, 03 Dec 2009 11:53:16 +0200
> To: "Mailing list for archaeologists of the research group for the study of
> object and waste of bone, antler. ivory and horn." <
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> From: Heidi Luik <heidi.luik at mail.ee>
> Subject: Re: [Bonetools] neolithic human teeth as personal ornaments
>
> Dear Francois,
>
> Sorry for the delay with answer, our athropologist was away and I could not
> ask her to check the tooth again. I would like to thank you very much for
> drawing my attention to the possibility that the tooth from Loona could be a
> bear incisor. Now I asked our archaeozoologist and anthropologist together
> to look this tooth again and to compare it with human and bear teeth. And
> they both agree that you are right, it is a bear incisor. Probably they
> could not identify it right at first since they did not take into account
> that it is so worn.
>
> Thank you again and all best wishes,
> Heidi Luik
>
>
>
>
> At 15:38 26.11.2009, you wrote:
>
>> Dear Heidy Luik,
>>
>> till recently, it was not possible for me to open files of pictures as
>> your's here. My e-mail system has been changd/renewed, allowing me to visit
>> now those things.
>>
>> It seems to me that the tooth of Loona  (on the left) is an upper incisor
>> (Nr 2 rather than Nr 1) of bear. Ist the root rather flat in section ?
>>
>> Of course, it would be easier with the thing in hand..
>>
>> Yours faithfully.
>>
>>
>>
>> Heidi Luik a écrit :
>>
>>> Dear Fotis,
>>> I do not know if you are interested in finds from so distant region. But
>>> there are some finds in the Eastern Baltic, in Estonia (one pendant in
>>> Loona) and Latvia (two pendants in Zvejnieki). As attachment is added a page
>>> from the powerpoint presentation at WBRG meeting in Wroclaw:
>>> Heidi Luik and Mirja Ots. From the Neolithic to the Bronze Age:
>>> continuity and changes of bone artefacts in Saaremaa, Estonia. /7th
>>> International Meeting of the ICAZ Worked Bone Research Group/, Wroclaw,
>>> 7th-11th of September 2009.
>>> There you can find pictures of these finds and the name of publication
>>> where Latvian finds are published.
>>> Best wishes,
>>> Heidi Luik
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> At 22:35 19.10.2009, you wrote:
>>>
>>>> Dear All,
>>>>
>>>> I am writing an article on human teeth used as jewelry, since I have two
>>>> examples in my assemblage -the Neolithic lakeside settlement at Dispilio,
>>>> Greece- a mollar and and milk-tooth, used as pendant and beads respectively.
>>>> I have found all the known other instances (paleo-chalcolithic) were human
>>>> teeth are used as ornaments, but still, I may be missing quite a lot.
>>>> I am sending you a pdf file with  the Dispilio human teeth, a map with
>>>> all the other instances, and a bibliography and catalog of them. (if this is
>>>> not applicable through the mailing list, do send me a e-mail)
>>>>
>>>> Any help will be appreciated!
>>>>
>>>> Fotis
>>>>
>>>> http://visualizing-neolithic.blogspot.com <
>>>> http://visualizing-neolithic.blogspot.com/>
>>>> http://theotheracropolis.com <http://theotheracropolis.com/>
>>>> http://kalaureiainthepresent.org <http://kalaureiainthepresent.org/>
>>>> http://spondylus.wordpress.com <http://spondylus.wordpress.com/>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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>>> Pièce jointe convertie : "C:\Documents and
>>> Settings\Poplin\Bureau\Courriers Mails\toothpendants.pdf"
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