[Bonetools] a query for an analogous finding of the comb

Alice Choyke choyke at gmail.com
Fri Apr 15 15:50:11 CEST 2022


And , also, for something closer to home, the work of Heidi Luik. Steve qnd
Heidi can both be approached directly as well!

Best,
Alice

On Fri, Apr 15, 2022, 09:34 Hans Christian Küchelmann <info at knochenarbeit.de>
wrote:

> Dear Renáta,
>
> I would suggest to start with the publications of Steve Ashby and Kristina
> Ambrosiani about the typology of medieval combs (see below). Otherwise
> there are a lot of references about comb finds in the  reference database
> on the WBRG-website. Go to https://www.wbrg.net/references , chose the
> keyword search and tick „comb“ and whatever else you regard as appropriate
> keywords.
>
> Best
>
> Christian
>
> # Ambrosiani, Kristina (1981): Viking Age combs, Comb Making and Comb
> Makers in the Light of Finds from Birka and Ribe, Stockholm Studies in
> Archaeology 2, Stockholm
>
> # Ashby, Steven P. (2011): An Atlas of Medieval Combs from Northern
> Europe. – Internet Archaeology 30
> >>> online: http://intarch.ac.uk/journal/issue30/ashby_index.html
>
> # Ashby, Steven P. (2011): The Language of the Combmaker: interpreting
> complexity in Viking-Age Industry. in: Baron, Justyna & Kufel-Diakowska,
> Bernadeta (eds.): Written in Bones. Studies on technological and social
> contexts of past faunal skeletal remains, 9-23, Wroclaw
>
> # Ashby, Steven P. (2010): A Typological Guide for the Spot-Identification
> of Medieval Bone/Antler Combs from the British Isles and Northern Europe,
> Unpublished Datasheet of the ICAZ Worked Bone Research Group
> >>> download:
> http://www.wbrg.net/images/stories/typology/ashby_comb_typology_2010.pdf
>
> # Ashby, Steven P. (2007): Bone and antler combs. – Finds Research Group
> AD700-1700 40, 1-8
>
> # Ashby, Steven P. (2005): Bone and antler combs: Towards a methodolgy for
> the understanding of trade and identity in Viking Age England and Scotland.
> in: Luik, Heidi / Choyke, Alice M. / Batey, Colleen / Lougas, Lembi (eds.):
> From Hooves to Horns, from Mollusc to Mammoth – Manufacture and Use of Bone
> Artefacts from Prehistoric Times to the Present – Proceedings of the 4th
> Meeting of the ICAZ Worked Bone Research Group at Tallinn, 26th–31st of
> August 2003, Muinasaja teadus 15, 255-262, Tallinn
>
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>
> > Am 11.04.2022 um 17:33 schrieb Renáta Přichystalová <
> svecova at phil.muni.cz>:
> >
> > Dear all,
> >
> > I would like to ask you for help with my searching of analogy to the
> antler comb from site Pohansko near Břeclav (CZ).
> > This is early medieval stronghold (9th - first half of 10th cen.). The
> comb was found in 3 pieces above the remains of christian church - a
> rotunda.
> > There is an article about this rotunda is there: in journal Památky
> archeologické from 2014:
> >
> https://www.academia.edu/9675500/Velkomoravsk%C3%A1_rotunda_z_Pohanska_u_B%C5%99eclavi_THE_GREAT_MORAVIAN_ROTUNDA_AT_POHANSKO_NEAR_B%C5%98ECLAV
> >
> > According my investigation: the comb we can assign to the group IB, type
> VII (variety 9a or 9c) or type VIII (variety 4) - classification according
> to Eugeniusz Cnotliwy 1973: Rzemioslo rogownicze na Pomorzu
> wcześniośredniowiecznym. This king of a comb is dated in the turn of the
> 9th and 10th century AD.
> > According to fig. 28 in the monograph of A. Chmielowska (1971) - it
> could be the comb of group IB, type 9, variety e - dated since 11th to 13th
> century AD.
> > (titel: Grzebiene starozytne i średniowieczne z ziem polskich).
> >
> > Please, does anybody know about some similar finding?
> >
> > I will be thankful for any information.
> >
> > Thank you in advance.
> >
> > Renáta P.
> >
> > --
> > Mgr. Renáta Přichystalová, Ph.D.
> > Department of Archaeology and Museology
> > Faculty of Arts, Masaryk University
> > Arna Nováka 1
> > CZ-602 00 Brno
> > Tel. No. 00420 54949
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