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

[Sonia O'Connor]

Dear Miriam,

This is definitely bone. You have worked and unworked surfaces, including what I think is a suture.  I would like to see close up photographs of all the edges.  It might be possible to take the identification further.

We are still working to get our web resource, Visualising Animal Hard Tissues, up and running. It is very frustrating to me that this is not yet available to you all.

All the best,

Sonia

Dr Sonia O'Connor PhD FSA FIIC ACR Honorary Visiting Fellow, University of York
Post-doctoral Researcher
Archaeological Sciences
Division of AGES,
University of Bradford
Bradford, West Yorkshire, BD7 1DP, UK

tel 01274 23 6498

From: Bonetools [mailto:bonetools-bounces at listserv.niif.hu] On Behalf Of Miriam Luciañez Triviño
Sent: 17 February 2016 11:43
To: Bonetools at listserv.niif.hu
Subject: [Bonetools] Help to identify the raw material of an artefact


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 Triviño
Contrato Predoctoral del Gobierno Vasco

Departamento de Prehistoria y Arqueología
Universidad de Sevilla
María de Padilla s/n. 41004. Sevilla. Spain
Phone: (34) 954 556906
Fax: (34) 954 559920

E-mail: mlucianez at us.es<mailto:mlucianez at us.es>
http://www.departamento.us.es/dpreyarq/web
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