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

[Renáta Přichystalová]

Dear Christian,

thank you for an useful advice.

Best

Renáta

Dne 2022-04-15 15:34, Hans Christian Küchelmann napsal:
> 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 Isles and Northern Europe, Unpublished Datasheet of the ICAZ Worked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.
>> 
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>> Department of Archaeology and Museology
>> Faculty of Arts, Masaryk University
>> Arna Nováka 1
>> CZ-602 00 Brno
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Faculty of Arts, Masaryk University
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