[Bonetools] bone tools

[Alice Choyke]

Dear Mirja and everyone,
    The conservator needs to be very careful about removing anything - even
all that breath-taking gloss. I am not even sure it should be attempted! I
have included some not too professional images I have of the caprine tibia
based pieces . The stripes on the diaphysis come are 'shadows' of wires
used to hang the pieces up long ago when they were in the exhibition of the
museum.

Alice

On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 2:09 PM, Mirja Ots <mirja at tlu.ee> wrote:

> Dear Alice,
>
> Thank You for your response. You are right, the findings have been
> excavated 1950th years, and all the bone material were coated with the same
> substance. Our conservator promised to try to remove it. He knows some of
> the recipes that were used at that time. I still do not know how he manages
> it.
>
> Mirja
>
> 22.03.2013 14:50, Alice Choyke kirjutas:
>
>  Dear Mirja,
>>
>> The surface of these bones reminds me forcibly of artifacts from the
>> marsh at Ljubljana barja. These had mostly been excavated in the first half
>> of the 20th century and were coated with something or other to preserved
>> them. Is this the case with these tools? Before anyone says anything it
>> would be useful to know what if any conservator interventions have happened
>> to them. In aycase I have some earily similar bone tools from this site
>> which are probably eneolithic or around 3000 BC for this part of the world.
>> Alice
>>
>
>
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