[Bonetools] Burning Antler

[Alice Choyke]

Thanks!

Alice

On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 4:35 PM, Ben Elliott <bje500 at york.ac.uk> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Here's a copy of Dale's paper on the Stonehenge bone and antler artefacts
> for your perusal.
>
> Enjoy!
>
> Ben Elliott
>
>
>
> On 14/09/2012 14:18, V. Rajkovaca wrote:
>
>> Yes, please, Dale!
>>
>> I have been working on the Trumpington Meadows ring ditches assemblage
>> recently, assessing those beautiful antlers I showed you in July!
>>
>> Your 'chalky' argument- although we are not quite on chalk here, the
>> underlying geology is 'sands and gravels with occasional patches of exposed
>> chalk marl which overlay the chalk bedrock' (British Geological Survey
>> 1995)- so I think your argument stands.
>>
>> Thank you!
>> Best wishes,
>> Vida
>>
>>
>> On Sep 14 2012, Serjeantson D. 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
>>>
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>>> on behalf of Alice Choyke [choyke at ceu.hu] Sent: 14 September 2012 12:01
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>>> 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:trz**
>>> aska at lineone.net <trzaska at lineone.net>> <trzaska at lineone.net<mailto:tr**
>>> zaska 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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