[Bonetools] [Magdatis project] Direct 14C dating of antler artifacts:3 short films in French

[Jean-Marc Petillon]

Dear Alice,

Curators who like to glue objects together might delighted to know that
punching holes in them creates new opportunities to glue them back after
that -

The point in the third film is not a split-based point, it's a
fork-based point: this is also a two-pronged base but the manufacturing
technique is different (and the hafting probably as well) and the date
is much later. We got ca. 16,500 cal BP one this one and that was
actually slightly earlier than what we expected (I'd have said 16,000).

Cheers,

Jean-Marc



Le 21/08/15 14:59, Alice Choyke a écrit :
> Dear Jean-Marc, These films are pretty impressive although the
> curators too stupid to understand that knowledge and temporal context
> can sometimes be more important than 1. gluing objects together that
> are never meant for display anyway much less punching small holes in
> them will not be convinced now. Coming from Central Europe I was
> surprised at the late date of the split based points.
>
> Cheers! Alice
>
> On Fri, Aug 21, 2015 at 1:59 PM, Jean-Marc Petillon
> <petillon at univ-tlse2.fr <mailto:petillon at univ-tlse2.fr>> wrote:
>
> Dear all,
>
> within the Magdatis project
> (https://univ-tlse2.academia.edu/Magdatisproject) we have made 3
> short films of 2 minutes each to publicize the radiocarbon dating
> work done on the Paleolithic collections from the Musée d'archéologie
> nationale (Saint-Germain-en-Laye) and the musée d'Aquitaine
> (Bordeaux). Each film revolves around the direct dating of an antler
> object selected among the iconic artifact types of the Late Upper
> Paleolithic. The films can be viewed on the websites of the Traces
> and Pacea laboratories:
>
> - Traces:
> http://traces.univ-tlse2.fr/accueil-traces/pressbook/a-voir-et-a-revoir-trois-films-pour-l-anr-magdatis--368719.kjsp?RH=1267700555035
>
>  - Pacea youtube account (films 7, 8 and 9):
> https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLzdBysfB5PDb_eXkSaZfrSE49AZoqaT1M
>
>  These films were produced by the Get In Situ company
> (http://www.getinsitu.com/) thanks to ANR funding
> (http://www.agence-nationale-recherche.fr/) and the work of CNRS
> researchers from Traces and Pacea. They are intended for display in
> museums and universities. They were also made to help convincing
> museum curators that punching (small) holes in precious prehistoric
> artifacts to get an AMS date is sometimes worth doing...
>
> The films have been available since late May, I did some advertising
> about them but I somehow forgot the Bonetools list. Apologies for
> this and for any cross-posting.
>
> Best,
>
> Jean-Marc



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