[Bonetools] astragali

[Alice Choyke]

Dear Barbara,
    Thanks for the PDFs concerning this endlessly interesting skeletal
element! Perhaps this is also the time to remind people that in addition to
the 'classic' caprine astragalus finds there are amulets made from a variety
of astragalii from a number of species such as beaver, dog and hare
(sometimes chained to carnivore canines), from large swathes of Northern
Europe into Eurasia. I am attaching an article on amulets I published last
year. Heidi Luik also has a wonderful publication on the Iron Age beaver
astragalus  amulets from Estonia
(Luik, H. 2010. Beaver in the economy and social communication of the
inhabitants of of south Estonia in the Viking Age (800-1050 AD). In: A.
Pluskowski, K. Kunst,M. Kurcera,M. Bietak and I. Hein, *Bestial Mirrors:
Animals as Material Culture in the Middle Ages* - 3. Vienna: VIAVIAS,46-54.

and Olivier Putelet has an article that includes a Merovigian beaver amulet
grave find.


Putelat, O. (pub year?). Les offrandes animales. *In* Billoin, D. *et al*. *La
nécropole mérovingienne à tumuli d’Hégenheim (Haut-Rhin)*. Actes des XXVIe
Journées internationales d’archéologie mérovingienne de l’AFAM. Nancy.)

If there are more published articles on non-caprine modified astraglii I
would be very interested to hear about it.


Alice

On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 6:18 AM, <barbara.care at unito.it> wrote:

> Good morning everybody!
> My name is Barbara Caré, and I am just entering this
> mailing list.
> I'm very pleased that the first discussion whom I've
> attended concerned the "astragali", subjects of my
> researches; especially I'm engaged in the study of their
> presence in the funeral contexts of the greek world and
> I'm also studying their modifications (in particular I've
> analysed the finds of the necropolis of Locri Epizefiri
> and I'm now analysing other finds coming from other
> funeral contexts of Magna Grecia.
> I shall be very happy to point out to you some of my works
> and in the meanwhile to receive some advices and other
> information from your part.
>
>
> Thank you
>
> Barbara
>
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