[Bonetools] new publication

[Nejma Goutas MAE]

Dear list members,

 

We would like to share with you the publication of a collective book about
Fracturing of osseous materials : « à coup d’éclats ! » La fracturation des
matières osseuses en préhistoire : discussion autour d’une modalité
d’exploitation en apparence simple et pourtant mal connue.

 

http://www.prehistoire.org/515_p_53043/acces-libre-sEance-13-a-coup-d-eclats
-la-fracturation-des-matieres-osseuses-en-prehistoire-discussion-autour-d-un
e-modalite-d-exploitation-en-apparence-simple-et-pourtant-mal-connue.html

 

http://www.prehistoire.org/offres/file_inline_src/515/515_P_46139_5c40817875
c8f_22.pdf

 

The book is online and in total free access (all articles can be
downloaded). It mainly contains articles in French, but also in English or
bilingual - French / English.

Our best wishes for the new year! 

Marianne & Nejma

 

Abstract : « Fracturing lato sensu of osseous materials can have different
meanings depending on the field involved (zooarchaeology, technology,
anthropology) as well as according to the historical and scientific context
in which this concept is used, the raw materials to which it is applied, or
the objectives that were pursued. These various points of view led to the
development of methodological, terminological or scientific inconsistencies.
It therefore became essential to take a critical look at the polysemous
concept of the fracturing of osseous materials, because its consequences
extend well beyond the epistemological sphere and sometimes directly impact
interpretative models of prehistoric social realities. This volume pursues a
twofold objective: a historiographical one—through state-of-the-art of
research carried out on the transformation of osseous materials by
fracturing and the fracturing techniques used; and a methodological
one—through the revision of distinct analytical criteria and diagnostics
used to differentiate between the modalities of transformation related to
hard animal materials by using percussion. Lastly, this volume groups
together a dozen contributions dealing with the exploitation of cervid
antler, bone, ivory, shells, and wood based on case studies from a variety
of contexts such as the Palaeolithic and Mesolithic in western and eastern
Europe or the Holocene period in the southern tip of South America. »


Nejma GOUTAS

Chargée de recherche 

Equipe Ethnologie Préhistorique – UMR 7041 (ArScan, Nanterre)

 

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