[Bonetools] Dama International

[Selena Vitezović]

Dear Ian,
Thank you very much!
best, Selena

On 15 March 2015 at 11:53, Ian Riddler <trzaska at lineone.net> wrote:

>   Hello Selena,
>
> I would certainly agree that identifying some elements of fallow deer is
> difficult, particularly the burr area. The person to contact about fallow
> deer is undoubtedly Naomi Sykes at the University of Nottingham (
> naomi.sykes at nottingham.ac.uk) who is currently running a project on the
> dissemination of fallow deer across Europe, cunningly titled Dama
> International (which will mean nothing to you if you don’t watch the
> Eurovision Song Contest !). We are currently collaborating on a paper
> dealing with worked fallow deer antler. I have published two texts on
> worked fallow deer antler so far, one dealing with a single piece of
> 8th-century AD date from Hamwic (text enclosed) and the other concerning a
> late medieval assemblage from Oxford (also enclosed: should be in print
> over the next few months). There is also a deposit of 12th-century fallow
> deer antler from recent work at Northampton, which is mentioned on the MoLA
> website. But in general there is little evidence for the working of fallow
> deer antler in England.
>
> There is good evidence for fallow deer in Roman Britain (several papers on
> that now) but Naomi is the person to contact for antler morphology etc.
>
> Hope this helps,
>
> Ian Riddler
>
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Selena Vitezović
Arheološki institut
www.ai.ac.rs
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