[Bonetools] Bone combs

[Steve Ashby]

Sorry Maja- also

Callmer, J. 2003. Wayland. An Essay on Craft Production in the Early and
High Middle Ages in Scandinavia, in L. Larsson & B. Hårdh (ed.) *Centrality
- Regionality. The Social Structure of Southern Sweden during the Iron Age.
Uppåkrastudier 7. Acta Archaeologica Lundensia Ser. 8 no. 40*: 337–61.
Lund: Almqvist & Wiksell.

Galloway, P. & M. Newcomer. 1981. The craft of comb-making: An experimental
enquiry *University of London Institute of Archaeology Bulletin* 18: 73–90.

Riddler, I.D. 2003. Materials of Manufacture: the Choice of Materials in
the Working of Bone and Antler in Northern and Central Europe during the
First Millennium AD, in. Oxford: British Archaeological Reports
International Series 1193.

Riddler, I.D. & N. Trzaska-Nartowski. 2011. Chanting upon a Dunghill:
Working Skeletal Materials, in M. Clegg Hyer & G.R. Owen-Crocker (ed.) *The
Material Culture of Daily Living in the Anglo-Saxon World*: 116–41. Exeter:
University of Exeter Press.

And for a basic intro to combmaking in the Viking Age, my own:

Ashby, S.P. 2014. *A Viking Way of Life. Combs and Communities in Britain
and Scandinavia, c. AD 800-1100*. Stroud: Amberley.


You will find lots on the web if you search me and Ian Riddler (also on
this list).

Good luck

Steve Ashby





Steve Ashby




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On 16 February 2016 at 11:55, Steve Ashby <steve.ashby at york.ac.uk> wrote:

> Dear Maja,
>
> This is a huge subject with lots of literature on it.  May I recommend:
>
> Ambrosiani, K. 1981. *Viking Age Combs, Comb Making and Comb Makers in
> the Light of Finds from Birka and Ribe. Stockholm Studies in Archaeology 2*.
> Stockholm: Almqvist and Wiksell.
>
> MacGregor, A. 1985. *Bone, Antler, Ivory and Horn: The Technology of
> Skeletal Materials Since the Roman Period*. London: Croom Helm.
>
>
>
> Steve Ashby
>
>
>
>
> Dr Steven P Ashby, FSA
> Senior Lecturer
> Dept of Archaeology
> University of York
> www.york.ac.uk/archaeology
> @uoyarchaeology / @grungeviking
> Awards Officer, Finds Research Group
> www.frg700-1700.org.uk
>
> PLEASE NOTE: I am on research leave.
> Student issues to *David Orton* (david.orton at york.ac.uk
> <gill.chitty at york.ac.uk>).
> BoS issues to *Dr Gill Chitty* (gill.chitty at york.ac.uk).
>
> Please support families and communities in Langtang, Nepal:
> http://www.justgiving.com/langtang-survivors
>
> Please see the University of York's email disclaimer:
> http://www.york.ac.uk/docs/disclaimer/email.htm
>
>
> On 16 February 2016 at 11:45, Maja Grguric <majagrguric at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Dear Bonetoolers,
>>
>> I hope I am writing on the right e-mail address.
>> I was wondering if someone colud help me regarding bone combs
>> manufacturing, preferably in late antiquity and great migration period. Any
>> info about the raw materials used or manufacturing itself would be helpful.
>>
>> Thank you,
>>
>> Maja Grgurić
>>
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