Thank you! <br>s. <br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 20 May 2011 17:32, 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 Selena:<br>
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I am working on early village sites from Bolivia! so there is no direct connection with your pieces. But I have many similar items to the cattle mandible you show here: they form a broad scraper when the ascending ramus is cut off. On the pieces from these Formative sites, the wear traces are coarse and deep, suggesting a hard material; I think they may be for forming and finishing pottery. On the Bolivian tools, the pieces were used with the teeth (in this case, llama teeth) still in the aveolus.<br>
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I hope this may give you some ideas about how people approached this bone.<br>
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best,<br>
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Kate Moore<div><div></div><div class="h5"><br>
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Quoting Selena Vitezovic <<a href="mailto:selenavitezovic@gmail.com" target="_blank">selenavitezovic@gmail.com</a>>:<br>
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Dear colleagues,<br>
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I have two strange artefactst from the site Bubanj in southeastern Serbia,<br>
Chalcolithic period, one made from cattle manible, the other from sheep<br>
manidble. Both pieces show intensive traces of use - cattle mandible looks<br>
like it was used for polishing, sheep manidble has two gouges as if<br>
something was attached and hanging. Unfortunately, both objects are<br>
fragmented. I suppose these are some ad hoc, expedient tools, since I do not<br>
have any other objects made from mandibles, and no traces of shaping<br>
(cutting, grinding) could have been observed. But, perhaps someone has some<br>
ideas about their use and possible analogies?<br>
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Thank you!!!<br>
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best, selena<br>
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