[Bonetools] Burning Antler

[Alice Choyke]

Does anyone have a copy of the Serjeantson and Gardiner 1995 article?


On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 12:33 PM, trzaska at lineone.net
<trzaska at lineone.net>wrote:

> Fire blackening of antler to assist in removing the tines has been
> suggested on a number occasions
> in England, mainly for neolithic material. The illustrations here are not
> very good (my apologies
> !) but they show an antler from a neolithic context, recovered from an
> important site at
> Trumpington in Cambridgeshire, which has been fire blackened around the
> junction with the trez
> tine, and also along the beam. The suggestion is that localised charring
> of antler, undertaken
> probably with a wooden brand, was commonly used as a working technique at
> this time (Clutton-Brock
> 1984, 26; Serjeantson and Gardiner 1995, 420-1).  It made the antler more
> brittle and easier to
> separate.  The same technique can also be seen on some Neolithic bone
> objects (Senepart 1985,
> 39).
>
>
>
> These are old studies of course but they might be useful. Trumpington will
> be published in a few
> years time.
>
>
>
> Clutton-Brock, J., 1984 Neolithic Antler Picks from Grimes Graves, Norfolk
> and Durrington Walls,
> Wiltshire: a Biometrical Analysis, London
>
>
>
> Senepart, I., 1985      L’industrie osseuse cardiale de Provence, in H.
> Camps-Fabrer, L’industrie en Os
> et Bois de Cervidés durant le Néolithique et l’Age des Métaux 3, Paris,
> 37-43
>
>
>
> Serjeantson, D. and Gardiner, J., 1995  Antler Implements and Ox Scapulae
> Shovels and Animal Bone,
> in R. M. J. Cleal, K. E. Walker and R. Montague, Stonehenge and its
> Landscape: Twentieth Century
> Excavations, English Heritage Archaeological Report 10, London, 414-30 and
> 437-51
>
>
>
> Ian Riddler
>
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