[Bonetools] Any suggestions about this item welcome

[Griffitts, Janet L - (griffitt)]

Hi Clare



For some reason your email didn't make it to my mailbox, but I'm curious about your artifact.  Could you send again?  You can just send it to me (griffitt at email.arizona.edu<mailto:griffitt at email.arizona.edu>) so everyone doesn't get a duplicate email!



Thanks



Janet



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Jan Griffitts
Visiting Scholar
Dept. of Anthropology,
Tucson,Arizona

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Subject: Re: [Bonetools] Any suggestions about this item welcome

First of all, I do thank you for recalling me a stay in USA, a track of which is :

37 POPLIN F., 1976 - Etude comparative de deux séries de chasse-lame néolithique de l'Yonne (France) et indienne du Missouri (USA). Cong. Préhist. France, 20e session, Provence 1974 (1976), 499-505, 7 figs.

I remember well the hoes made of bison scapulas, and so forth.

Your poor tiny and nevertheless charming thing is a part (a half ?) of a more complete one, where such another series of marks is to be expected ; which means 1°) that the upper edge is the result of a later splitting (can you look at this ?), and 2°)see



Le 19/04/2014 02:03, Clare Tolmie a écrit :
Dear all

This is a very small, fine bone that appears to have been notched along one edge. The marks are not root etching and don’t appear to be from any insect damage. Unfortunately these pictures aren’t the best, as I only had my phone with me that day (I will try to get some more). We haven’t been able to think of what it could be used for, or why this working would occur. The bone is from a protohistoric Oneota site in north eastern Illinois (11-Wi-213). The site has prehistoric Langford and protohistoric occupations. This is from the protohistoric. The site at that period was a horticultural village. Other worked items are bison and elk scapula hoes, worked antler, and awl and a beamer on white tailed deer metapodials.

Any suggestions welcome and many thanks for any ideas.

Clare

Clare Tolmie PhD,RPA
Senior Archaeologist
Midwest Archaeological Research Services, Inc.

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