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mso-line-height-alt:12.0pt;mso-hyphenate:none"><span
style="font-size:14.0pt;
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would like to come today
to the theme "a piece, two objects".</span><!--[if supportFields]><span
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style='mso-element:field-begin'></span>PRIVATE </span><![endif]--><!--[if supportFields]><span
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Roman";letter-spacing:-.15pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"
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mso-line-height-alt:12.0pt;mso-hyphenate:none"><span
style="font-size:14.0pt;
font-family:"Times New Roman";letter-spacing:-.15pt">The
piece proposed by Erik Farrell
does not fit very well for me with what I have to express,
mainly because of
the wear of the formerly broken end ; it puzzles me to much, and
even the break
it covers is not that clear in my mind. I'll take a better
example/case.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"
style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;
mso-line-height-alt:12.0pt;mso-hyphenate:none"><span
style="font-size:14.0pt;
font-family:"Times New Roman";letter-spacing:-.15pt">Some
words before : there
are cases were the function is not changed, where the object is
the same.
For example, it may occur that a hole pierced through the tip of
the root (<i>apex
dentis</i>) of a carnivore canine breaks, and that a
new/second hole is pierced
a little bit further, providing an image of "one and a half"
pierced
pendant. This is reparing, there is continuation, the function
is the same (fr.
"reprise" opposite to "remploi", where the function is
another one).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"
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mso-line-height-alt:12.0pt;mso-hyphenate:none"><span
style="font-size:14.0pt;
font-family:"Times New Roman";letter-spacing:-.15pt">A
new function is
precisely the case in fig. 4 in the paper of Idola
Grau-Sologestoa (*), to whom I
write my remarks and who answers very kindly, so as we starded
an harmonious
fruitfull dialogue in which I feel free to express my thoughts,
even without
linguistic limitation, as/because I may write my mother tongue.
With help of a
dictionary, I dare to say that I feel crippled in Shakespeare's
language, and
feel more how much I maim it.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"
style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;
mso-line-height-alt:12.0pt;mso-hyphenate:none"><span
style="font-size:14.0pt;
font-family:"Times New Roman";letter-spacing:-.15pt">On
that bone, the
previously unclear wear (on the die, above) becomes a marvelous
source of light, and the
break is evident in its causality/etiology : it is the end and
conclusion of an
in force use, in which the main hole grew till the remnant
vanishing part of
the bone wall could not resist any longer. This long and mighty
use produced a
wear done by human hand, and even by both hands of a man ; a
wear for which
it's difficult to find a suitable name, at least in french (**).
It's a kind of
polish. I do not want to enter this terminological problem here,
I prefer to
stress this : they are two things to be considered, fr. <i>poli
à la main</i>
and <i>poli par la main</i>, polish done with hand (holdind a
polisher) and
left by the hand (itself). We have to consider the later more
than nowadays.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"
style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;
mso-line-height-alt:12.0pt;mso-hyphenate:none"><span
style="font-size:14.0pt;
font-family:"Times New Roman";letter-spacing:-.15pt">Have
a look to the
beautiful die from Meulan, make zoom on the 6 faces and 21 eyes.
You will see
soon that faces of 3 and 4 are transversal (annuli become clear
with some
magnification), facing extremities (distal or proximal, is
indistinct), and
that their eyes are not seriously damaged by the wear/polishing.
The 6, on the
outer/periostical face, and the one, of the inner/medullary
face, are deeply
damaged. The one-eye has lost its circle (it has been re-carved
roughly with a
pin), its central point/<i>fovea</i> ("pupil", let us say)
remains alone and few, as on the 6. The 2 an the 5, on radial
sections, have suffer something
inbetween. You may imagine an ellipsoid of bone hardness, as in
wood (where
it's so difficult to plane on the transverse sections), and we
must
congratulate the dice maker to have carved these eyes which open
ours on the
phenomenon of wear/polishing of the surfaces by hands.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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style="font-size:14.0pt;
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now week-end. I leave
you with that piece of chess for playing.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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style="font-size:14.0pt;
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sincerely<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Roman"; letter-spacing: -0.15pt;"><o:p>(*) </o:p></span><a
href="http://www.aranzadi-zientziak.org/fileadmin/docs/Munibe/2012305319AA.pdf">http://www.aranzadi-zientziak.org/fileadmin/docs/Munibe/2012305319AA.pdf</a></p>
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style="font-size:14.0pt;
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this is not, despite
common/faulse uses, fr. <i>patine</i>, engl. <i>patina</i>,
which is an added
coloration (cf. verdigris) ; it is rather close to italian
adjective <i>frusto</i> ; german <i>Schliff </i>is the most
appropriate term that I know.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">--
François POPLIN
Directeur honoraire de l’UMR 7209 Archéozoologie, Archébotanique : sociétés, pratiques et environnements
Responsable du Séminaire d'Anthropozoologie
Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle
CP 56
Ancien Laboratoire d’Anatomie comparée
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75005 Paris
01 40 79 33 11
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