<div dir="ltr"><div>Another type you might consider that would produce wear is clasps for bags.</div><div> </div><div>Alice</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 1:56 PM, Fotis Ifantidis <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:fotisif@gmail.com" target="_blank">fotisif@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><div><div>Mikhail:<br>No specialized use wear analysis was applied, it is more the form of some rings that could be ascribed to archer's thumb rings. There are visible major differences between the upper and bottom of some rings (some are more lustruous) while in one case vertical discolorations may be due to the use of arrow? I really cannot tell, it is too tricky.<br>
<br></div>Isabelle:<br></div>Yes, some of them are quite fragile, but the majority of the antler ones are quite robust. <br>Considering the basket-use, I would expect many more to be found having at least some standarized dimensions. <br>
Aegean bone rings are extremely rare, with Dispilio's assemblage of ca. 70 objects being unique (while all of which appear in the earliest, middle/late neolithic phase and not on the later phases). Though some "types" could be discerned, it seems that each ring is quite different from another: some are easily worn in the index, some could be only for children, that is if <i>all</i> of them were fingerrings, and not simple pendants, hair-adornments or some type of archer's rings.<br>
</div><div>As you say, experimentation and use wear analysis cannot always offer a clear result.</div><div><br></div><div><br>Christian:<br></div>thank you for the article<br><div><div><br></div><div>Some more pics are attached<br>
</div></div></div><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2013/5/13 Christian Küchelmann <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:info@knochenarbeit.de" target="_blank">info@knochenarbeit.de</a>></span><br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" 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">Dear Fotis,<br>
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the only paper I know dealing with archer's rings is from an archery journal:<br>
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Dekker, Peter (2011): Using the Manchu Thumb Ring. – Society for the Promotion of Traditional Archery Newsletter Autumn 2011<br>
online: <a href="http://mandarinmansion.com/articles/Using%20Manchu%20thumbrings%20Peter%20Dekker.pdf" target="_blank">http://mandarinmansion.com/<u></u>articles/Using%20Manchu%<u></u>20thumbrings%20Peter%20Dekker.<u></u>pdf</a><br>
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Am 13.05.2013 um 08:56 schrieb Fotis Ifantidis:<br>
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Though for years I had the feeling that some of the bone/antler finger rings from my study material from Neolithic Dispilio (Greece) could be used as archer’s rings, today I am more that certain…<br>
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Do you know any (published) examples of Neolithic archer’s rings or a general biblio?<br>
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