hi Kate and everyone,<br><br>I am working on a dissertation on wear from soft materials on bone and have studied a large collection of ethnographic bone tools. I am working on a paper I presented at the WBRG conference in Wroclaw last September that will come out in the volume from the conference. I will also send you a brief paper describing preliminary results from my ethnographic work. I would be happy to answer any specific questions if I can!<br>
<br>Beth Stone<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 11:34 AM, Katherine M. Moore <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:kmmoore@sas.upenn.edu">kmmoore@sas.upenn.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
Dear Colleagues:<br>
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I am seeking general insights (or perhaps opinions) on trace analysis of bone tools. Various studies describe characteristics of traces left on bone by common materials (plant material, hide, soil, etc.). Is there a recent reference which establishes the characteristics of these traces using sytematic studies of modern bone tools? Even more importantly, are there blind tests of identification of worked material on bone tools such as those conducted by Keeley and Newcomer for stone tools? Those blind tests and others which followed have shown that such identifications of worked material on stone tools are probably not reliable. Do bone tool studies have better foundation?<br>
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Thanks for your help and experience.<br>
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best,<br>
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Kate Moore<br>
Consulting Scholar<br>
University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology<br>
3260 South St.<br>
Philadelphia, PA 19104 USA<br>
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</blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Elisabeth A. Stone<br>Department of Anthropology, Graduate Program in Archaeology<br>MSC01-1040, Anthropology 1<br>University of New Mexico<br>Albuquerque, NM 87131<br><br>
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