<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 </div>
<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> wrote:<br>
<blockquote style="BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; PADDING-LEFT: 1ex" 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 mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Bonetools@listserv.niif.hu">Bonetools@listserv.niif.hu</a><br>
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