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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Hello Alica,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>And thanks for sharing this wonderful article! As I
read, I came upon the mentioning of ritualistic horse burials without a horse,
from the migration period. I am presently writing about horses, so I wonder if
you possibly could contribute with some more specifics on those graves? The
reference in your article page 207 is made to Nagy 2005, pp 103-104. Do you have
this book? Is there a chance you could copy those two pages and send me? I would
greatly appreciate it.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>And so you know it, I <EM>will </EM>use your
article as part of my references. </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Best greetings,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>**Gun-Britt Blomdahl,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Linnaeus University, Kalmar, Sweden</FONT></DIV>
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<A title=h13017cho@iif.hu href="mailto:h13017cho@iif.hu">Alice Choyke</A>
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the research group for the study ofobject and waste of bone,antler. ivory and
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Thursday, March 31, 2011 9:31
AM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [Bonetools] astragali</DIV>
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<DIV>Dear Barbara,</DIV>
<DIV> Thanks for the PDFs concerning this endlessly
interesting skeletal element! Perhaps this is also the time to remind
people that in addition to the 'classic' caprine astragalus finds there are
amulets made from a variety of astragalii from a number of species such as
beaver, dog and hare (sometimes chained to carnivore canines), from large
swathes of Northern Europe into Eurasia. I am attaching an article on
amulets I published last year. Heidi Luik also has a wonderful
publication on the Iron Age beaver astragalus amulets from Estonia
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<DIV>(Luik, H. 2010. Beaver in the economy and social communication of the
inhabitants of of south Estonia in the Viking Age (800-1050 AD). In: A.
Pluskowski, K. Kunst,M. Kurcera,M. Bietak and I. Hein, <EM>Bestial Mirrors:
Animals as Material Culture in the Middle Ages</EM> - 3. Vienna:
VIAVIAS,46-54. </DIV>
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<DIV>and Olivier Putelet has an article that includes a Merovigian beaver
amulet grave find.</DIV>
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<DIV style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify; MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"
class=MsoNormal><SPAN>Putelat, O. (pub year?). Les offrandes animales. <I
style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">In</I> Billoin, D. <I
style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">et al</I>. <I
style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">La nécropole mérovingienne à tumuli
d’Hégenheim (Haut-Rhin)</I>. Actes des XXVIe Journées internationales
d’archéologie mérovingienne de l’AFAM. Nancy.)</SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify; MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN>If
there are more published articles on non-caprine modified astraglii I would be
very interested to hear about it.</SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV>Alice<BR><BR></DIV>
<DIV class=gmail_quote>On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 6:18 AM, <SPAN dir=ltr><<A
href="mailto:barbara.care@unito.it">barbara.care@unito.it</A>></SPAN>
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class=gmail_quote>Good morning everybody!<BR>My name is Barbara Caré, and I
am just entering this<BR>mailing list.<BR>I'm very pleased that the first
discussion whom I've<BR>attended concerned the "astragali", subjects of
my<BR>researches; especially I'm engaged in the study of their<BR>presence
in the funeral contexts of the greek world and<BR>I'm also studying their
modifications (in particular I've<BR>analysed the finds of the necropolis of
Locri Epizefiri<BR>and I'm now analysing other finds coming from
other<BR>funeral contexts of Magna Grecia.<BR>I shall be very happy to point
out to you some of my works<BR>and in the meanwhile to receive some advices
and other<BR>information from your part.<BR><BR><BR>Thank
you<BR><BR>Barbara<BR><BR>_______________________________________________<BR>Bonetools
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