[Bonetools] identification of raw material

François Poplin poplin at mnhn.fr
Tue Jul 8 07:59:45 CEST 2014


I don't see figure of repeated layering as in the image I was speaking 
of previously.
That king of layering in "spongy bone" can be (roughly) observed in 
ossifed costo-sternebral cartilages. But...

To All,
>
> Looks like it did not work will need to add each photo as an 
> attachment not part of text from a word doc.
>
> Hope this works,
>
> Paul Stokes
>
>
> On Monday, 7 July 2014, 21:08, Paul Stokes <escoffier1951 at yahoo.co.uk> 
> wrote:
>
>
> To All,
>
> I've just spent 15mins to trim, soak in boiling water 5mins to 
> soften and cut a slice of antler found laying about the house
>
> These are the views of slice of antler cut with a saw with 7 teeth per 
> cm. x200 digital microscope
>  The attached is photograph of the slice and the piece of antler it 
> was cut from
> Regards
>
> Paul Stokes
> On Monday, 7 July 2014, 14:03, Sonia O'Connor 
> <S.Oconnor at bradford.ac.uk> wrote:
>
>
> Definitely not cuttlefish bone/shell. I attach a photomicrograph of 
> cuttlefish shell.
> All the best,
> Sonia
> Dr Sonia O'Connor PhD FSA FIIC ACR Honorary Visiting Fellow, 
> University of York
> Post-doctoral Researcher
> Archaeological Sciences
> Division of AGES,
> University of Bradford
> Bradford, West Yorkshire, BD7 1DP, UK
> tel 01274 23 6498
> *From:*Bonetools [mailto:bonetools-bounces at listserv.niif.hu] *On 
> Behalf Of *François Poplin
> *Sent:* 07 July 2014 12:53
> *To:* Mailing list for archaeologists of the research group for the 
> study of object and waste of bone, antler. ivory and horn.
> *Subject:* Re: [Bonetools] identification of raw material
> Is it far away from the ocean ? can you tell wheher it's rather 
> calcium carbonate than phosphate ? The second picture here lets me 
> remember of some invertebrate constructions. Unfortunatley, I have 
> even not a simple broken cuttle-fish "bone"/shell to go on that way of 
> investigation.
>
> Le 04/07/2014 16:12, marinaevora at sapo.pt <mailto:marinaevora at sapo.pt> 
> a écrit :
>
>
>     Dear all,
>
>     We found this round artifact in an upper paleolithic site. I would
>     like to hear your opinions about the identification of the raw
>     material. The images were taken with a binocular microscope.
>     Thank you.
>
>
>     Marina Évora
>
>     Please consider the impact on the environment before printing this
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Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle
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