<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt"><div><span>Thank you for the pdf Catherine !</span></div><div><br><span></span></div><div><span>Best</span></div><div> </div><div><span style="font-weight:bold;">Marquebielle Benjamin</span><br>PhD student TRACES laboratory - UMR 5608<br>5, rue du pont Guilheméry<br>31000 Toulouse<br>tel : 06 71 33 61 52<br>e-mail : benjamin.marquebielle@yahoo.fr<br><br></div><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><font face="Arial" size="2"><hr size="1"><b><span style="font-weight:bold;">De :</span></b> Katherine M. Moore <kmmoore@sas.upenn.edu><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">À :</span></b> "Mailing list for archaeologists of the research group for the study of object and waste of bone, antler. ivory and
horn." <bonetools@listserv.niif.hu><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Envoyé le :</span></b> Lundi 29 Août 2011 3h24<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Objet :</span></b> Re: [Bonetools] Worked Astraguli from Turkmenistan<br></font><br>Dear Isabelle,<br><br>Here is the pdf of the original article. There are a few observations <br>of the traces but not sufficient detail to meet modern standards. I <br>look forward to hearing more about the distribution of these pieces.<br><br>best wishes,<br><br>Kate Moore<br><br><br>Quoting <a ymailto="mailto:isabelle.sidera@mae.u-paris10.fr" href="mailto:isabelle.sidera@mae.u-paris10.fr">isabelle.sidera@mae.u-paris10.fr</a>:<br><br>> Dear colleague,<br>><br>> I would love to have a pdf and would like more details of their use wear<br>> traces.<br>> These polished astragalus from sheep and goat, dama, red deer, pig and<br>> boar, cattle and aurochs are common in the
Chalcolithic of the Balkans,<br>> but are not used as polishers : no trace of use the flat sides except<br>> manufacturing striations.<br>><br>> Best wishes, Isabelle Sidéra<br>><br>><br>>> Dear colleagues:<br>>><br>>> A few weeks ago we shared an exchange about astraguli (and phalanges)<br>>> that had been worked on one or both edges, and I commented that I was<br>>> familiar with this from work in Bronze Age Turkmenistan. This was<br>>> older work! and it took me a moment to dig out those records. At this<br>>> point, there is no pdf, and I can't even find a computer file for the<br>>> report in which this material appears:<br>>><br>>> 1993 Bone tool technology at Gonur Depe. Information Bulletin<br>>> (Moscow), vol.19: 218-227<br>>><br>>> If there is interest, I could produce a pdf using a hard copy. I am<br>>> attaching a drawing of two
representative pieces. My manuscript notes<br>>> a cache of 8 and a cache of 17 from room fill contexts at the<br>>> southern, later, massive room block at this site. Single examples were<br>>> also found. Worked and unworked bones were packed together, and sheep<br>>> bones occurred together with those of the less common (probably wild)<br>>> pig. Up to 4mm of bone material had been removed from individual faces<br>>> of these bones. I speculated that they had been used on a softer but<br>>> still abrasive material, but I regret that I am not sure if these<br>>> pieces now are in Turkmenistan or in Moscow, and I have no good<br>>> photographs of the pieces after they had been cleaned.<br>>><br>>> for context on the American excavations at Gonur:<br>>><br>>> Moore, K.M., N. Miller, F. Hiebert and R. Meadow 1994 Agriculture and<br>>> herding in the early oasis
settlements of the Oxus Civilization.<br>>> Antiquity 68: 418-427.<br>>><br>>> Hope this provides a further clue to the variability in these pieces.<br>>><br>>> best wishes,<br>>><br>>> Kate Moore<br>>><br>>> Zooarchaeology Laboratory<br>>> University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology<br>>> 3260 South Street<br>>> Philadelphia, PA 19104 USA<br>>><br>>> _______________________________________________<br>>> Bonetools mailing list<br>>> <a ymailto="mailto:Bonetools@listserv.niif.hu" href="mailto:Bonetools@listserv.niif.hu">Bonetools@listserv.niif.hu</a><br>>> <a href="https://listserv.niif.hu/mailman/listinfo/bonetools" target="_blank">https://listserv.niif.hu/mailman/listinfo/bonetools</a><br>>><br>><br>><br>><br>> _______________________________________________<br>> Bonetools mailing list<br>> <a
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