[Bonetools] Three questions

[Margaris, Amy V.]

Hi Christian,
In response to your first question: there's evidence of indigenous Alutiiq
peoples of Alaska using beaver and marmot incisors as carving bits.  I
don't know if actual use-wear analysis has been done on them though.

For more info, you can go to this website and do a page search for the word
"incisor."
http://www.afognak.org/heritage/history/history-intro.php?src=ancient-afognak

And here's the reference for Bob Kopperl's dissertation that talks about
marmot incisor tools as the Rice Ridge site, specifically:
Kopperl, Robert E.
2003 Cultural Complexity and Resource Intensification on Kodiak Island,
Alaska. Ph.D. dissertation, University of Washington. University
Microfilms, Ann Arbor.

Hope this helps!
Amy

On Wed, Dec 17, 2014 at 4:34 PM, Christian Gates St-Pierre <
cgates70 at yahoo.fr> wrote:
>
> Hello everyone,
>
> I have three questions for the price of one!
>
> First: does anyone know about some use-wear analysis on bone tools made
> out of beaver incisors? (beside Parmigiani & Alvarez-Soncini [2014], of
> which I already have a copy).
>
> Second: does anyone have a pdf copy of the following (it is not available
> through our network of North American university libraries, and I can't
> find it on the web): *Pétrequin & Rachez (1997), «Un biseau naturel:
> l'incisive de castor», in Les sites littoraux néolithqiues de Clarivaux et
> de Chalain (Jura), III, Chalain station 3, 3200-2900 av. J.C.* (published
> by the Maison des sciences de l'Homme, in Paris)?
>
> Third: does anyone know about some recent publications dealing with the
> use of heat (fire) as a technique of hardening (and darkening) bone
> materials/bone tools, especially in opposition to the total carbonisation
> of bones which will have the opposing effect (i.e. weakening the bone
> structure and triggering it's fragmentation)? I know of some «old»
> references (pre-year 2000), but I was wondering if there was some more
> recent publications on this precise subject?
>
> Any help regarding anyone of these queries would be greatly appreciated!
>
> Thanks in advance and Happy Holidays to all!
>
> Christian
>
>
> *Christian Gates St-Pierre*, PhD
> Invited Researcher
> Département d'anthropologie
> Université de Montréal
> christian.gates-st-pierre at umontreal.ca
>
>
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