[Bonetools] Neolithic Bone objects

[Alice Choyke]

Dear François,
     That would be excellent! The more our work is circulated the less
students will have to continuously re-invent the wheel.

Alice

On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 3:30 PM, François Poplin <poplin at mnhn.fr> wrote:

>  Le 22/03/2013 13:03, Heidi Luik a écrit :
>
> Dear all,
> My colleague Mirja Ots asked me to forward to the list a question about
> bone objects from the Neolithic site of Tamula. Please send answer to the
> list and to her e-mail address also.
> Thank you in advance,
> Heidi
>
> From the Tamula settlement site in South Estonia, dated to 3100–1650 BC
> (from the same site burials dating from 4700–3400 BC have been discovered)
> more than a hundred bone fragments with transverse grooves have been found.
> The bones are mostly split long bones and the grooves spread in a fan
> shape. So far archaeologists have suggested that these are artefacts used
> for straining or spooling cord made from tendons.
> We would be very grateful for any parallels and suggestions about their
> function.
> Thank you in advance!
> Mirja Ots mirja.ots at tlu.ee
>
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>  I gave a paper "Deux cas de débitage des matières dures d'origine
> animale" (1974), where I saw (partially) hippo ivory and even enamel (ie. a
> lower canine) with sand and tendon (David's deer), then with sand and
> string. Do you want I send you the paper, and you make a pdf for all ? It
> was to reproduce a so sawn tusk from predynastic Egypt kept at the Musée
> des Antiquités nationales (Saint-Grermain-en-Laye).
>
> More in a certain time ; I have something else to send now.
>
> Your's
>
>
> --
> François POPLIN
>
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