[Bonetools] astragali

[François Poplin]

Le 31/03/2011 09:31, Alice Choyke a écrit :
> 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.)
He is coming to day, with an ivory problem. I'll show  your message to 
him (but he received it certainly too).


> 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 
> <mailto: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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