[Bonetools] Re : Re : Bone tool debitage

Mon Mar 26 14:22:52 CEST 2012

Bonjour Isabelle,

Thanks for the references. I will look for them in our libraries first and I will get back to you if have any problems to get them.

Bonne journée!

Christian

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Objet : Re: [Bonetools] Re :  Bone tool debitage

Cher Christian,

In the 80s, the criteria for identifying bone flaking techniques were discussed. This lead to defining a problematic around bone knapping. ETTOS, a french group of bone technology experimenters created by Danielle Stordeur, worked on the problem. They published a paper related to the efficiency of bone knapping and the degree of bone freshness (see below). This problematic was especially linked to Early Paleotlithic bone technology, see Biberson, Aguirre.,  Vincent and Patou-Matis (see below). 

In the 70s, in the perspective of lithic technology, some scholars saw in bone flakes the sign of bone knapping work (see Roubet). 

I do not see any recent work in the question. See may be Elise Tartar's work.

As Nerissa said : no hope or few for distinguising wether technological or food process.
Personnally when flakes are used as blanks and many long bone are broken, I tend to consider that there is a combination (telescopage) between technology and food process. Bones are broken with a certain savoir-faire for both aims. It is the case in Linear Pottery Culture (see Sidéra, 2000).

I can cite one example of obvious direct percussion only, which is made by an expert: see my paper in WNRG Talinn p. 88 fig. 9.

Some titles:

Biberson P., Aguirre E., 1965, Expériences de taille d'outils préhistoriques dans des os d'éléphant. Quaternaria, 7, p. 165-183.

ETTOS, 1985, Techniques de percussion appliquées au matériau osseux, premières expériences.Cahiers de l'Euphrate, 4, p. 373-381.

Vincent A., 1987, "Préliminaires expérimentaux du façonnage de l'os par percussion directe (quelques reproductions d'artefacts reconnus dans les niveaux du Paléolithique Moyen)".Outillage en os et en bois de cervidés  I, Artefacts 1,éd. du Centre de recherche et de documentation archéologique de Viroinval,p. 23-32.
Roubet, C. 1979. Economie
pastorale préagricole en Algérie orientale. Le néolithique de tradition
capsien. Exemple de l’Aurès. CNRS, Paris.
Sadek-Kooros H., 1972, Primitive bone Fracturing. A Method of research.American Antiquity,37 (3),p. 369-382.

Sidéra I., 2000, Animaux domestiques, bêtes sauvages et objets en matières animales du Rubané au Michelsberg. De l'économie aux symboles, des techniques à la culture.Gallia Préhistoire, 42, p. 108-194.

I could make efforts to scan the papers if you do not find them.

Best, Isabelle 

Le 23 mars 2012 à 22:38, Christian Gates St-Pierre a écrit :

That's right Nerissa, that's why I wonder if there's been any recent research regarding that specific problem, anything beyond the "spiral fracture dabate" for example, or beyond the "human vs animal taphonomic transformations". It may be easy to identify waste productions such as blanks or nearly finished objects that broke during manufacture, but distinguishing a flake or bone splinter resulting from food processing (you mention marrow and grease extraction) and a flake or bone splinter resulting from the first steps in the process of tool manufacture may not be that easy. So, would anyone know about any recent publication or research on that matter? Perhaps it's a bad idea to ask such a question on a Friday night... :-)
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>Really the bigger problem is distinguishing bone tool debitage from other anthropic fractures, such as marrow and bone grease processing.
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>Would anyone know about any recent (post year 2000) publication on the differentiation between natural and anthropic fractures in order to identify the waste elements in the production of bone tools (flakes, debris, etc.), in English or French, and if possible from prehistoric contexts?
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