<div dir="ltr">Dear <span style="white-space:pre-wrap">François,</span><div><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> I suppose it will always be impossible to really understand why particular mammal bones are chosen to make one object or another but it is good to think about it nevertheless. Thank you for sending this article!</span></div>
<div><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></div><div><span style="white-space:pre-wrap">Best,</span></div><div><span style="white-space:pre-wrap">Alice</span></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">
On Fri, Jul 18, 2014 at 4:38 PM, François Poplin <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:poplin@mnhn.fr" target="_blank">poplin@mnhn.fr</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<div>Le 16/07/2014 21:15, Rémi BERTHON a
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<div>Dear all,</div>
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<div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:13.3333px;font-family:verdana,helvetica,sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-style:normal">I came across an unusual
find in a Chalcolithic (ca. 4000 BC) assemblage from
Azerbaijan : a tool made of a copper point inserted in a red
fox (Vulpes vulpes) radius. I am aware that one criteria for
the selection of the bone can be the diameter of the
diaphysis. But, considering that it is a pastoral population
(90% sheep and goat in the fauna) not much involved in
hunting, I imagine that they could have found an adequate bone
for the handle in the domestic fauna.</div>
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<div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:13.3333px;font-family:verdana,helvetica,sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-style:normal">I would be glad to know if
any of you is aware of bone tools made from fox bones in the
Caucasus or an adjacent region (Eurasia, Eastern Europe, Near
East, etc ...).</div>
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<div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:13.3333px;font-family:verdana,helvetica,sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-style:normal">Many thanks in advance for
your advices.</div>
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<div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:13.3333px;font-family:verdana,helvetica,sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-style:normal">Best,</div>
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Here you have a file - sorry : a fine - example (fig. 3 p. 115) of
reciprocal adaptation in a canid tibia, rather round in the hand,
rather triangular in the proximal ("upper") region, as the file
itself. Eskimo, musée de l'Homme à Paris (et teh time of the paper,
at least...). A rmember more "dog" than "fox".<div class=""><br>
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