[Bonetools] Three questions

Fri Dec 19 17:17:14 CET 2014

I know about Osgood's book, and some other ethographic works of the same kind that contains descriptions and illustrations of beaver incisors used as chisels or side-scrapers. But what I am more precisely looking for are use-wear analyses conducted on beaver incisors: those are not as common...
Thanks for all the hints you provide, I appreciate it. I've also got some interesting suggestions/references by other folks that I will try to find: if they happen to contain the information I'm looking for I will let you know and transmit those references to you as well. I must also say that I will conduct some experiments myself on beaver incisors (among other bone tools) next semester, so hopefully this may contribute to fill the lacunae for this matter.

Best,
Christian

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Dear Christian,    I recommend you try and find a copy on Abe's list etc. of Ingalik Material Culture by Cornelius Osgood (1940), Yale University Publication in Anthropology #22, New Haven. Pages 83-90 deal exclusively with beaver jaw and tooth tools.   I have no doubt there are other North American ethnographies that contain equally detailed info. but this one I have in my hand and it has proved unbelievably useful.

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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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