[Bonetools] Marks on a bone tool

[Alice Choyke]

Dear Gloria,
     Two points one of which is a reminder to other people on the list). If
you saw Manuel's letter then you must be on the list but at a different
e-mail address. Remember - if you have several addresses then you might
want to register otherwise your letters will not get through or  must allow
them through separately.
    Secondly - I have seen these cattle scapula  from the Late Bronze Age
levels at Tell Dor in Israel and I have even seen similar objects from the
Early Bronze Age in Arslantepe in central-eastern Turkey. Nevertheless
there are so many notched tools that can have so many different uses -
these LBA-Iron Age scapula are well worn with a high use polish . Manuel's
small split caprine metatarsals seem to have much sharper edges so I really
doubt the function could have been similar.
       Thank you for these two articles  - I was unaware of them and it is
nice to see the distribution area of this type begin to emerge.

Best,
Alice

On Sat, Jan 23, 2016 at 9:03 PM, Brown, Gloria Howat <
gloriabrown at saclink.csus.edu> wrote:

> Hello Manuel,
> I'm studying scapular tools that are from western North America. In my
> background research, I came across notched scapulae from the
> Mediterranean/Middle East that look similar to your photo.
> Zukerman et al. 2007 has good images of a couple of them. Reese 2002 has a
> good lit review, if I remember correctly.
> Wishing you the best,
> Gloria Howat Brown
>
>
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> Dear colleagues, I am studying a small bone assemblage from a Neolithic
> cave site from Granada, in southern Spain. I´ve seen some sort of small
> parallel groves over the edges of a point tool. Do you have any
> suggestion about their origin? Function?
> Any suggestion is welcome!
> Thank you in advance!
>
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