[Bonetools] astragali

[Gun-Britt]

Hello Alica,
And thanks for sharing this wonderful article! As I read, I came upon the mentioning of ritualistic horse burials without a horse, from the migration period. I am presently writing about horses, so I wonder if you possibly could contribute with some more specifics on those graves? The reference in your article page 207 is made to Nagy 2005, pp 103-104. Do you have this book? Is there a chance you could copy those two pages and send me? I would greatly appreciate it.
And so you know it, I will use your article as part of my references. 
Best greetings,
**Gun-Britt Blomdahl,
Linnaeus University, Kalmar, Sweden


  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Alice Choyke 
  To: Mailing list for archaeologists of the research group for the study ofobject and waste of bone,antler. ivory and horn. 
  Sent: Thursday, March 31, 2011 9:31 AM
  Subject: Re: [Bonetools] astragali


  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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