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        style="font-size:14.0pt;
        font-family:"Times New Roman";letter-spacing:-.15pt">The
        next question is the
        size of beads, mainly their diameter.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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        have some trouble to
        work and search as I would like these days ; among these
        difficulties, both
        librairies of the Sorbonne and the Collège de France are
        removing... 3 hours
        lost/wasted. I went to the Institut du Monde arabe in order to
        find some spacers for
        you. Maybe you can reach <i>Traditional Jewelry of India</i>,
        Thames and Hudson
        ed., several editions. Two very fine examples from Nagaland p.
        66-67, one with
        8 holes, another with 8 and 11.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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        style="font-size:14.0pt;
        font-family:"Times New Roman";letter-spacing:-.15pt">What
        I want to stress is
        that the width of spacers is very commonly the same as the
        diameter of beads ;
        easy to understand : it would be unsuitable to have them on the
        skin protruding
        as rails of railway : it must be as in a level crossing (U. S.
        grade crossing).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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        style="font-size:14.0pt;
        font-family:"Times New Roman";letter-spacing:-.15pt">Then,
        what is the usual
        size/diameter of beads in the concerned/involved cultures, is
        the question.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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        style="font-size:14.0pt;
        font-family:"Times New Roman";letter-spacing:-.15pt">On
        p. 84 of the joint pdf,
        kindly sent by Simon Davis, you have a an example of spacer made
        of vulture
        ulna (why not bearded <i>Gypaetus barbatus</i>, as very usual
        for pastoral
        flutes in recent Greece ?). You could imagine that the beads
        themselves were
        made out of the same kind on bone - the same diameter, I mean -
        but there is
        not enough bones for that in the skeleton.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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        largest side of bone
        wear the carving, the opposite was hidden, laying on the
        skin/body or things
        like that ; there is a rather strong tendancy in islamic/arabic
        tradition
        to/for "osteoglyphy"/"osteography" (writing, carving of
        bones, I don't enter the details).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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        style="font-size:14.0pt;
        font-family:"Times New Roman";letter-spacing:-.15pt">The
        piece is broken both
        on a hole and one of the semi-annular groves (not very young
        people may remember
        the medicinal ampoules of glass and the little saw to open
        them...). You may
        imagine with few risks that it went further at least for another
        hole (half + one). There is
        an idea of symmetry, reasonnably moderated by the lesser
        development/witdth at
        this end.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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        style="font-size:14.0pt;
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        all what a can do
        for today.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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          <th align="RIGHT" nowrap="nowrap" valign="BASELINE">Sujet: </th>
          <td>Re: tiré à part</td>
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          <th align="RIGHT" nowrap="nowrap" valign="BASELINE">Date : </th>
          <td>Fri, 8 Mar 2013 08:07:34 +0000</td>
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          <th align="RIGHT" nowrap="nowrap" valign="BASELINE">De : </th>
          <td>Simon Davis <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:simonjmdavis@gmail.com"><simonjmdavis@gmail.com></a></td>
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          <th align="RIGHT" nowrap="nowrap" valign="BASELINE">Pour : </th>
          <td>François Poplin <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:poplin@mnhn.fr"><poplin@mnhn.fr></a></td>
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    peut-etre c'est ça?
    <div>davis<br>
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          François POPLIN<br>
          <br>
          Directeur honoraire de l’UMR 7209 Archéozoologie,
          Archébotanique : sociétés, pratiques et environnements<br>
          <br>
          Responsable du Séminaire d'Anthropozoologie<br>
          <br>
          Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle<br>
          CP 56<br>
          Ancien Laboratoire d’Anatomie comparée<br>
          55, rue de Buffon<br>
          75005 Paris<br>
          01 40 79 33 11<br>
          fax ------ 33 14<br>
          <br>
          <a moz-do-not-send="true"
            href="http://francoispoplin.blogspot.com" target="_blank">francoispoplin.blogspot.com</a><br>
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      -- <br>
      <font color="#660000">Simon JM Davis, <br>
      </font><font color="#663333">Zooarqueologia, Laboratório de
        Arqueociências,<br>
        IGESPAR,<br>
        Rua da Bica do Marquês, 2 <br>
        1300-087 Lisbon (Portugal) <br>
        <br>
      </font><font color="#006600" face="garamond,serif" size="1">There
        was nothing, then dinosaurs, then<br>
        There were mammals, and finally men,<br>
             Who ruled for a while<br>
             In belligerent style,<br>
        And then there was nothing again <br>
                                  (Gerard Benson)<br>
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