[Bonetools] Wear traces on bone tools

[Elisabeth Ann Stone]

hi Kate and everyone,

I am working on a dissertation on wear from soft materials on bone and have
studied a large collection of ethnographic bone tools.  I am working on a
paper I presented at the WBRG conference in Wroclaw last September that will
come out in the volume from the conference.  I will also send you a brief
paper describing preliminary results from my ethnographic work.  I would be
happy to answer any specific questions if I can!

Beth Stone

On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 11:34 AM, Katherine M. Moore
<kmmoore at sas.upenn.edu>wrote:

> Dear Colleagues:
>
> I am seeking general insights (or perhaps opinions) on trace analysis of
> bone tools. Various studies describe characteristics of traces left on bone
> by common materials (plant material, hide, soil, etc.). Is there a recent
> reference which establishes the characteristics of these traces using
> sytematic studies of modern bone tools? Even more importantly, are there
> blind tests of identification of worked material on bone tools such as those
> conducted by Keeley and Newcomer for stone tools? Those blind tests and
> others which followed have shown that such identifications of worked
> material on stone tools are probably not reliable. Do bone tool studies have
> better foundation?
>
> Thanks for your help and experience.
>
> best,
>
> Kate Moore
> Consulting Scholar
> University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology
> 3260 South St.
> Philadelphia, PA 19104 USA
>
>
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Elisabeth A. Stone
Department of Anthropology, Graduate Program in Archaeology
MSC01-1040, Anthropology 1
University of New Mexico
Albuquerque, NM 87131

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