[Bonetools] [ZOOARCH] Sheep tibia pins/gouges in Cremations

[Alice Choyke]

Dear Jacqui,
     It might also be useful to move this discussion to the worked bone
mailing list incase someone else has seen something similar. Write to the
mailing list at <bonetools at listserv.niif.hu>.

Alice

On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 11:36 AM, Jacqui Mulville
<MulvilleJA at cardiff.ac.uk>wrote:

> Zooarchers,
>
> I have just looked at a group of cremations from the entrance graves on
> the Isles of Scilly for a RC dating project (probably Bronze Age - but no
> dates) and we found a number of small sheep tibia gouges/pins.  These were
> from tiny individuals, a number had the distal end intact with the shaft
> worked to an open point. The artefacts were calcined. They accompanied four
> cremations in one tomb with a number more recorded from another (the
> majority of tomb contents from the isles are unfortunately lost).  Does
> anyone know of parallels?
>
> One individual was accompanied by faience and glass beads. The burning of
> the pins/gouges suggests they were burnt with the individuals, however they
> were much less fragmented than the human bone? Were they treated
> differently? Were they dress pins?
>
> Any sheep/human cremation parallels from prehistory welcome.
>
> Best wishes
>
> Small pic of one pin/gouge on facebook page -
>
> http://www.facebook.com/#!/photo.php?fbid=260206660697897&set=pu.253287838056446&type=1&theater
>
> Jacqui Mulville (PhD),
> Cardiff Osteoarchaeological Research Group
> www.facebook.com/CORGROUP
>
>
>
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>
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