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<FONT FACE="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:11pt'>There is a lot of seal in Greenland and other Arctic sites, but not all that much of it is worked. That said, the combs do look like some sort of sea mammal bone rather than antler. <BR>
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Alice, I have some nice bone tools – would you like me to post them to the list, or send them directly to you?<BR>
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On 10/27/09 9:15 AM, "Vicki Szabo" <<a href="szabo@email.wcu.edu">szabo@email.wcu.edu</a>> wrote:<BR>
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</SPAN></FONT><BLOCKQUOTE><FONT FACE="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:11pt'>Hi Anne and all - so much seal in Greenland sites, but I'm not sure who has analyzed it, and I think - just first impression - that it's mostly waste rather than worked. But, still worth a look.<BR>
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From: <a href="bonetools-bounces@listserv.niif.hu">bonetools-bounces@listserv.niif.hu</a> [<a href="bonetools-bounces@listserv.niif.hu">bonetools-bounces@listserv.niif.hu</a>] On Behalf Of Anne Brundle [<a href="Anne.brundle@orkney.gov.uk">Anne.brundle@orkney.gov.uk</a>]<BR>
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Subject: Re: [Bonetools] bone tool of the month<BR>
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Hi Alice,<BR>
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I’d be delighted for our picture to be an ‘object of the month’! Thank you.<BR>
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We don’t get many artefacts identified as seal bone at all, but is there a tendency to see what we’re looking for? The most famous published ‘seal’ artefact from Orkney is the Futhark pendant from the Brough of Birsay (Curle 1982) - except it was re-identified at the National Museum in the 1990s as a bear tooth. : )<BR>
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There isn’t much seal bone in the zooarchaeological record either. A quick glance through the books on my desk shows that the massive excavation of the Iron Age settlement at Howe produced only five identified seal bones, all from young animals. The Brough Road excavations in Birsay had seal bone through all the phases ‘but in small numbers only’ and the Beachview excavations, also in Birsay, had only very occasional seal.<BR>
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A review of the bones used for artefacts would be an interesting project for someone – Vicki Szabo mentioned in her book that small artefacts of cortical whalebone may be classified as general mammal, and thus under-represented in the literature. I look forward to the research requests – but, sorry, we have no money!<BR>
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From: <a href="bonetools-bounces@listserv.niif.hu">bonetools-bounces@listserv.niif.hu</a> [<a href="mailto:bonetools-bounces@listserv.niif.hu">mailto:bonetools-bounces@listserv.niif.hu</a>] On Behalf Of Alice Choyke<BR>
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Subject: Re: [Bonetools] bone tool of the month<BR>
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Anne -Clearly it would be very worthwhile trying to identify species and skeletal element for these combs more closely. How much seal bone is used in the Orkneys anyway?<BR>
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Alice<BR>
On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 9:19 AM, <a href="aesr05@ukgateway.net<mailto:aesr05">aesr05@ukgateway.net<mailto:aesr05</a>@ukgateway.net> <<a href="aesr05@ukgateway.net<mailto:aesr05">aesr05@ukgateway.net<mailto:aesr05</a>@ukgateway.net>> wrote:<BR>
I hesitate to extend this discussion, but wonder could it be seal bone??? Colour, texture looks good for that. Colleen<BR>
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The Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum and Arctic Studies Center<BR>
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