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<p class="MsoNormal"
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style="font-size:14.0pt;
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<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<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;
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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">The
play with the knight
was to consider the series of ocelli : these on the flanks are
deeply polished
out, whereas the one behing is fresh. This shows that the piece
was grasped
between thumb and fingers 1 an 2 (fr. 2 et 3), as a salt
pinch/sprinkle. If it
were possible to distinguish the touches of thumb and following
digits, it
could be possible to determine, owing to the reasonable view
that the head was
hold in front, that the players were often right handed, for
example. The
principal thing at the moment is that polishing by fingers/hand
is readible
thanks to the ocelli - as on the dice.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<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;
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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">This
is the same on fig. 4
of Idola Grau-Sologestoa, and more visible on the attached
picture she provided
me [can you open ?]. The series of interdental impacts of the
chisel are obliterated by
polishing : they are not fresh, not wound like, even not
cicatrice remembering,
but rather <i>vibices</i>. This polish has been brought by the
second use,
which ended with the rupture of the bone. The break cuts at
least a series of
impacts, showing that these has been done formerly. The sickel
toothing could
have been done intercurrently, occasionnaly, at once (*), not
primarily, and
has been chronogicaly overlapped by the second use. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<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;
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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">Before
going any further
(there are lots to say), I would like to make clear that point,
which is
decisive : it seems that the little round boring went through
the whole bone (look the break between the interrupted series of
impacts ant the longitunal crack),
and the same is suggested for the big elliptic one on fig. 4 -
and by the fact
that the series of impacts are interrupted at its level in/on
the length of
bone.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<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"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<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">One
must add the fact the
distal end has been removed, etc. : that bone is definitely
different of those
to which I want to come since weeks and months.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<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"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<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">(*)
The way the series of
impacts are not in regular rows supports this. Their total
length on the
fragment is about 20 cm ; it is dangerous to multiply by 2,
because this
fragment is less than a half (the big elliptic hole is not in
the middle of the
shaft, but a little big more proximal). Therefore, a reasonable
estimate is
about 30 cm, which points on a unique sickle.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<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;
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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">--------------------------------------------<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<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;
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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">Preliminarily
:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<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"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<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">cord,
rope, string ? I'll
use <i>cord</i> because of the vicinity with both french <i>corde</i>
and
spanish <i>cordon</i>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<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"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<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">auger,
bit, drill, trepan
? I'll use <i>bit</i> because I need to point/specify the
metallic rotating and
active part/piece/axis/axle biting into the material (spanish <i>broca</i>).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<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;
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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"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<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">And
now :<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<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"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<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">suppose
you are going to
drill a hole, with the bit put on the material in left hand. The
right hand
coils up the cord clockwise, so as it is tangent/tangential at 3
h. You cover
the bit with left hand and pull the cord. The drill turns
clockwise. If you
want to protect your left hand, you put a "bit-cap"/"bit-cover",
and if you have to act in force, you call a second pair of man's
hands grasping
a cross-rung/cross-beam as bit-cap (1), giving a double handle
as on a
pneumatic tool/drill ; so as to "take the bull by the horns"
(fr.
tenir le taureau par les cornes, spanish : <I would like to
know>).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<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"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<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">The
cord is pulled towards
6 h. If it were attached with a knot around the bit, it would
pull the bit
directly and entirely in that direction. As the action is
tangential (which
gives the rotating movement), this pulling towards 6 is only
partial, and the
turning action gives a certain pulling effect towards the left ;
the resultant
being a pulling towards "down left on the watch", let us say
towards
7 h for example. That drifft/lee-way will ovalize in that way
the bit housing -
and now, you print and see trough from the back the page 89 of
the paper send by Simon Davis,
and you get it.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<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"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<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">You
have it elementarily
with the distal hole fig. 36, and it goes on with the
intermediate, where a
symmetric effect brings the complement : that bone is
technically reversible,
both ends being roughly interchangeable in form. It was used
equally with
distal part or proximal part on the left, and when you turn the
page upset
down, the figure of holes does not change. (2)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<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"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<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">When
you have to cover the
bit quickly (this work is long and time is money), it is useful
to have not
only a single hole/housing, but rather several, not to have to
grope too much ;
and to have not to choose "distal or proximal". With a certain
acquaintance of the tool, you find your marks, and no matter the
orientation of
bone itself, the pertinent/relevan being to have it with a
symmetric/reversible
arrangement/adjustment. And the most visited and ovalized holes
will be the
closest to the grasping (left) hand, on the left, with the
result that were
(more) solicited distal and intermediate holes of the bone when
grasped by
distal end, and proximal and intermediate holes when grasped by
the proximal
end.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<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"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<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">Or
you prefer a single
hole, and you get fig. 37, where the reversibilty
distal/proximal gives thes
same (cumulative) image than on the intermediate hole of fig.
36.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<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"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<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">I
that conception, either
the cord was recoiled each time, or the left part of the
cord left in the left hand was used for return back the cord for
a new action
clockwise. And we get here in touch with a considerable point of
technical
progress/history of technics : nowadays, all our bits are
clockwise
acting/working (or : would it be the contrary elsewere, as for
car driving ?).
Maybe theses bones show the invention/revolution of the "one way
drilling" - at a time before brace, and waiting for it.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<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"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<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">It
would be for me the
third occurrence of "bone<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>bearing
witness
for iron".<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<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"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<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">(1)
with a seating/housing/recess/socket
for the head/upper end of the bit ; I did not want to make my
sentence heavier.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<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"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<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">(2)
This may be
surprising. But listen and watch : when you have a
cord/rope/string with a
certain twisting (S, for example, which is contrary of Z
twisting), and when
you make a looping/bight/hair pin with it, the two parallel
parts show the same
twisting.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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mso-line-height-alt:12.0pt;mso-hyphenate:none"><span
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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">Paris,
the first of April
2013.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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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
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