[Bonetools] Burning Antler

[Florencia Borella]

Thanks Ben!
Fl.

> 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
>>>
>>> http://www.southampton.ac.uk/archaeology/profiles/serjeantson.html
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>>> 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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