[Bonetools] Burning Antler

[Alice Choyke]

Dear Dale,

   Could I have a copy please and then once it is  published the PDF?

Cheers!
Alice

On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 1:41 PM, Serjeantson D.
<D.Serjeantson at soton.ac.uk>wrote:

> Hello all
> I do not have a pdf of the chapter (must make one ...). What I do have is
> an article in press by Fay Worley and myself which covers the same topic
> but expands it beyond the Stonehenge assemblage. I can send a copy of the
> text and figures to anyone who would like a copy. Please let me know.
>
> Dale
>
> Dale Serjeantson
> Archaeology
> School of Humanities
> University of Southampton
>
> http://www.southampton.ac.uk/archaeology/profiles/serjeantson.html
> ________________________________
> From: bonetools-bounces at listserv.niif.hu [
> bonetools-bounces at listserv.niif.hu] on behalf of Alice Choyke [
> choyke at ceu.hu]
> Sent: 14 September 2012 12:01
> To: Mailing list for archaeologists of the research group for the study of
> object and waste of bone, antler. ivory and horn.
> Subject: Re: [Bonetools] Burning Antler
>
>
> 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<mailto:
> trzaska at lineone.net> <trzaska at lineone.net<mailto: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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