[Bonetools] Three questions

[Alice Choyke]

And I believe there are several 19th c. ethnographies  that describe the
same thing. I will check my references tomorrow and let you know - thanks
for the reminder.

Alice

On Thu, Dec 18, 2014 at 5:49 PM, Margaris, Amy V. <amy.margaris at oberlin.edu>
wrote:
>
> 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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