[Bonetools] hairpin usewear?

[Etan Ayalon]

Dear all list members
I don't have enough hair left to try hair pins. But more seriusly, taking this question back to the old world and to the many Roman bone pins found everywhere, the debate was always whether these were hair or cloth pins. This makes the situation worse, as how can we distinguish between wear caused by hair and that caused by cloth fibers? As for Mme Biro's and others' idea that at least some of those objects were kohl sticks, indeed we identified here at Caesarea, Israel, Roman "pins" with remains of some material (close to ochre in color) which we tried to identify at the Weizmann Institute, but failed
So - more work but new ideas and questions are always good
Etan Ayalon

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מאת: bonetools-bounces at listserv.niif.hu בשם Elisabeth Ann Stone
נשלח: ד 23/05/2012 19:02
אל: Mailing list for archaeologists of the research group for the study ofobject and waste of bone,antler. ivory and horn.
נושא: [Bonetools] hairpin usewear?


hi everyone,

I'm working on a collection of tools from a pithouse in New Mexico and looking at some things commonly identified as hairpins.  I don't have any comparative standards for usewear from use in human hair and I'd like to see whether that really is the best interpretation.  But it would be helpful to have an idea of whether there is anything distinctive about that kind of wear.  Does anyone else have any or suggestions on where to look?  (Maybe a new hairstyle is in my future!)

Thanks in advance!

Beth

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Elisabeth A. Stone, PhD
Adjunct Faculty
Department of Anthropology
MSC01-1040, Anthropology 1
University of New Mexico
Albuquerque, NM 87131

201.344.2229

elisabethastone at gmail.com  


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