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Dear Alice and others,<br>
<br>
I apologise not to have time enough and not to may use french for writing
here in order to express precisely and all what I have to say, but at
least :<br>
<br>
- the making of holes in series/lines refers me to my oldest studies,
when I was about 4-5 years old. With a half of walnut shell and a piece
or hard paper, and a needle stucked in a wood handle, the
"mistress" used to let us make turtles. She had a stamp/seal in
the shape of the body of the turtle (as it were reduced to a "lion
skin"), and printes it with blue ink on the paper - a print for each
of us. Before gluing the half shell on the back, we had to cut along the
line/contour of this boby by picking/making holes with the
handled/shafted needle, the paper lying on a piece of carpet. It's the
same principle than fort post-marks, and I often thing to my little
nut-turtle (as a kind of "Rosebud" for me - you see what I mean
?) when I put a post-mark on a post-card, etc.<br>
<br>
- I am acquainted with the making of fishing-hooks too (for instance
with<br>
<font face="Times, Times">AYROLLES P., CLEYET-MERLE J.-J., POPLIN F. et
TSCHERTER E., 1991 - L'hameçon de la grotte du Déroc. <i>Ardèche
Archéologie,</i> 8, 35-39 et 3° de couverture, 4 figs., 1 pl).<br>
<br>
One hole is often enough to start the cuting of the inner part of the
hook ; they are lots of them in the neolithic settlements of suiss
lakes.<br>
<br>
</font>- at our ASWA meetinq in Tubingen, I spoke both of ostrich eggs
and boar tusks, because of the of the structural similarity of tusk-wall
at the base and the shell (it's "varnisn" is similar to the
enamel, etc.). I kept only the eggs in the paper, but I felt that it was
important to think the two together. Butr the egg shell is vragile ; the
story has to go on with true shell, elaborated by molluscs...<br>
<br>
So you may imagine how much your views make my tender inside...<br>
<br>
<br>
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A 08:51 08/01/2009 +0100, h13017cho@helka.iif.hu a écrit :<br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite>Dear Sonia, Francois and
Clive,<br>
Of course, now that you mention it there is also a
technique from end of <br>
the Neolithic in Hungary (and I am sure elsewhere in the region) for
<br>
producing fishhooks from boar tusk that involves drilling holes in a
rough <br>
hook outline which is then refined (see attachment). It is nice that this
is a <br>
technique used on more brittle materials but that two of you have
empirically <br>
'invented' the technique.<br>
<br>
Alice<br>
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