[Bonetools] Worked Astraguli from Turkmenistan

[Katherine M. Moore]

Dear Isabelle,

Here is the pdf of the original article. There are a few observations  
of the traces but not sufficient detail to meet modern standards. I  
look forward to hearing more about the distribution of these pieces.

best wishes,

Kate Moore


Quoting isabelle.sidera at mae.u-paris10.fr:

> Dear colleague,
>
> I would love to have a pdf and would like more details of their use wear
> traces.
> These polished astragalus from sheep and goat, dama, red deer, pig and
> boar, cattle and aurochs are common in the Chalcolithic of the Balkans,
> but are not used as polishers : no trace of use the flat sides except
> manufacturing striations.
>
> Best wishes, Isabelle Sidéra
>
>
>> Dear colleagues:
>>
>> A few weeks ago we shared an exchange about astraguli (and phalanges)
>> that had been worked on one or both edges, and I commented that I was
>> familiar with this from work in Bronze Age Turkmenistan. This was
>> older work! and it took me a moment to dig out those records. At this
>> point, there is no pdf, and I can't even find a computer file for the
>> report in which this material appears:
>>
>> 1993  Bone tool technology at Gonur Depe. Information Bulletin
>> (Moscow),  vol.19: 218-227
>>
>> If there is interest, I could produce a pdf using a hard copy. I am
>> attaching a drawing of two representative pieces. My manuscript notes
>> a cache of 8 and a cache of 17 from room fill contexts at the
>> southern, later, massive room block at this site. Single examples were
>> also found. Worked and unworked bones were packed together, and sheep
>> bones occurred together with those of the less common (probably wild)
>> pig. Up to 4mm of bone material had been removed from individual faces
>> of these bones. I speculated that they had been used on a softer but
>> still abrasive material, but I regret that I am not sure if these
>> pieces now are in Turkmenistan or in Moscow, and I have no good
>> photographs of the pieces after they had been cleaned.
>>
>> for context on the American excavations at Gonur:
>>
>> Moore, K.M., N. Miller, F. Hiebert and R. Meadow 1994  Agriculture and
>> herding in the early oasis settlements of  the Oxus Civilization.
>> Antiquity 68: 418-427.
>>
>> Hope this provides a further clue to the variability in these pieces.
>>
>> best wishes,
>>
>> Kate Moore
>>
>> Zooarchaeology Laboratory
>> University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology
>> 3260 South Street
>> Philadelphia, PA 19104 USA
>>
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