[Bonetools] Worked Astraguli from Turkmenistan

[isabelle.sidera at mae.u-paris10.fr]

Thank you Catherine,

I send you an article soon. Yhis work just signal one of this piece. My
work on this question is in progress. When it will be finished, I will
send it to you.
Best wishes, Isabelle

> 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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