<div>Dear Beth,</div><div> I am sure that Sandra Olsen dealt with this subject many years ago but whether she looked at use wear traces back then for her dissertation I do not remember. I do know she has commented that hairpins tend to have a round cross-section by the active end for obvious reasons. I am also curious if anyone has looked at the sear from human hair at high magnifications.</div>
<div> </div><div>Alice<br><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 6:02 PM, Elisabeth Ann Stone <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:elisabethastone@gmail.com" target="_blank">elisabethastone@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;padding-left:1ex;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid" class="gmail_quote">hi everyone,<br><br>I'm working on a collection of tools from a pithouse in New Mexico and looking at some things commonly identified as hairpins. I don't have any comparative standards for usewear from use in human hair and I'd like to see whether that really is the best interpretation. But it would be helpful to have an idea of whether there is anything distinctive about that kind of wear. Does anyone else have any or suggestions on where to look? (Maybe a new hairstyle is in my future!)<br>
<br>Thanks in advance!<br><br>Beth<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Elisabeth A. Stone, PhD<br>Adjunct Faculty<br>Department of Anthropology<br>MSC01-1040, Anthropology 1<br>University of New Mexico<br>
Albuquerque, NM 87131<br><br>
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