[Bonetools] handle made of fox bone

[Alice Choyke]

Dear François,
I suppose it will always be impossible to really understand why particular
mammal bones are chosen to make one object or another but it is good to
think about it nevertheless. Thank you for sending this article!

Best,
Alice


On Fri, Jul 18, 2014 at 4:38 PM, François Poplin <poplin at mnhn.fr> wrote:

>  Le 16/07/2014 21:15, Rémi BERTHON a écrit :
>
>  Dear all,
>
>  I came across an unusual find in a Chalcolithic (ca. 4000 BC) assemblage
> from Azerbaijan : a tool made of a copper point inserted in a red fox
> (Vulpes vulpes) radius. I am aware that one criteria for the selection of
> the bone can be the diameter of the diaphysis. But, considering that it is
> a pastoral population (90% sheep and goat in the fauna) not much involved
> in hunting, I imagine that they could have found an adequate bone for the
> handle in the domestic fauna.
>
>  I would be glad to know if any of you is aware of bone tools made from
> fox bones in the Caucasus or an adjacent region (Eurasia, Eastern Europe,
> Near East, etc ...).
>
>  Many thanks in advance for your advices.
>
>  Best,
>
>  Rémi Berthon
>
>  Here you have a file - sorry : a fine - example (fig. 3 p. 115) of
> reciprocal adaptation in a canid tibia, rather round in the hand, rather
> triangular in the proximal ("upper") region, as the file itself. Eskimo,
> musée de l'Homme à Paris (et teh time of the paper, at least...). A rmember
> more "dog" than "fox".
>
>
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