[Bonetools] bone artefact from Wrocław - microphotographs

[François Poplin]

Listen. You take a gas cigarette-lighter and you heat even very very 
quickly an even little little dark part supposed to be birch tar, and 
smell. If it's burned cork like, it's that tar.


Le 29/05/2012 09:46, Bernadeta Kufel-Diakowska a écrit :
>
> Unfortunately I cannot make any cuts on the right black part of the 
> artefact. But I attach microphotographs of the surface, taken both in 
> the middle and in the area of right end. It seems that there is any 
> coating and the black something is something else (birch bark tar was 
> in use in the Middle Ages in this region). As you can see the entire 
> surface is highly polished and all edges are heavily rounded, apart 
> from the surface of “negatives” on the right black end – there are 
> scraping/whittling? traces perpendicular to the main axis of the 
> artefact, but only on one side.
>
> Best,
>
> Bernadeta
>
>
>
> -- 
> dr Bernadeta Kufel-Diakowska
> Pracownia Archeometrii i Konserwacji Zabytków Archeologicznych
> Instytut Archeologii
> Uniwersytet Wrocławski
> ul. Koszarowa 3 bud. 28
> 51-149 Wrocław
> tel: (71) 375-52-89
> fax: (71) 375-52-46
> e-mail: bernadeta.kufel at gmail.com <mailto:bernadeta.kufel at gmail.com>
> www.archeo.uni.wroc.pl <http://www.archeo.uni.wroc.pl/>
>
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François POPLIN

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