<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>Dear Therese Ekholm,</div><div><br></div>Would it be possible that your fragments are related to a deposit made by animals (hyena, prey birds...) ?<div>Some animals eat the bones and reject them in the form of tiny perforated pieces, just like yours as from the pictures you send.</div><div>Firmly regular perforations issued then from chemical process of gastric juce contained in stomach that dissolves bone.</div><div>Even large mammal bone/antler can be modified such a way, while these animals usually breaking the bones before eating them.</div><div><br></div><div>Some references :</div><div>-Peter Andrews (1990) <i>Owls, caves and fossiles</i>. Edmundsbury Press LtD.</div><div>-Isabelle Robert and Jean-Denis Vigne (2002) The bearbed Vulture (Gypaetus barbatus) as an accumulator of archaeological bones. Late glacial assemblages and present-day reference datta in Corsica (western mediterranean). <i>Journal of Archaeological Sciences</i> 29.</div><div>-Francesco d'Errico and Paola Villa (1997) Holes and grooves : the contribution of microscopy and taphonomy to the problem of art origins. <i>Journal of human evolution</i> 33.</div><div><br></div><div>Hope you will find throughout theses publications method thank to which you can make evidences clear.</div><div>With all my best regards,</div><div>éva david</div><div><div><br></div><div><br><div><div>Le 29 sept. 2013 à 18:42, Therese Ekholm a écrit :</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><span><Löpnr 3.jpg></span></span></blockquote></div><br><div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Dr. Éva DAVID<br>CNRS, UMR 7055
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