[Bonetools] Help to identify the raw material of an artefact

[Alice Choyke]

One excellent place to start is Sabine Deschler-Erbs monograph on Augusta Raurica  with her discussion of raw material identification there. The PDF is available at:

https://ipna.unibas.ch/archbiol/pdf/1998_DeschlerErb_BeinartefakteAugustaRaurica_Kap1-2.pdf

Sonia O'Connor is the go-to person for ivory and an array of other raw materials identification. Finally, for really tricky pieces where you would want the species at least there are a host of techniques with the most promising to my mind the ZoOMS technique which identifies the differing proteins in collagen between species. For a start you can check these out on Google.
    Your images look quite antlerish to me but it is tremendously difficult to identify raw materials unless there is a really healthy surface at sufficiently high magnification.

Best,
Alice



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>>> Miriam Luciañez Triviño<mlucianez at us.es> 2/17/2016 12:42 PM >>>

Dear all,
I hope I am writing on the right e-mail address.
First of all I want to introduce myself: I am a PhD researcher at the University of Seville. My research is focused on the manufacture, use and exchange of ivory objects in Iberian Chalcolithic period. Currently, I am studying a set of artefacts from the Chalcolithic  settlement of Valencina de la Concepción.
I would like to make you two querys:
- Is there any publication (article or monograph) in which a synthesis of the macroscopic features of different osseous materials is made? (those characteristics of the raw material we could see between 10 and 100X)
- Could anybody help me to identify the raw material of the piece attached in the files? I am a little bit lost with it, because I am not able to identify the "most characteristic" features of some of the osseous tissues and I see others that I cannot explain very well...
Thank you in advance.
Bests,
Miriam
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Miriam Luciañez TriviñoContrato Predoctoral del Gobierno VascoDepartamento de Prehistoria y ArqueologíaUniversidad de SevillaMaría de Padilla s/n. 41004. Sevilla. SpainPhone: (34) 954 556906Fax: (34) 954 559920E-mail: mlucianez at us.eshttp://www.departamento.us.es/dpreyarq/webhttp://www.grupo.us.es/atlas
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