<div dir="ltr">And I believe there are several 19th c. <font color="#000000"><font face="normal arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12px">ethnographies </span></font> t</font>hat describe the same thing. I will check my references tomorrow and let you know - thanks for the reminder.<div><br></div><div>Alice</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Dec 18, 2014 at 5:49 PM, Margaris, Amy V. <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:amy.margaris@oberlin.edu" target="_blank">amy.margaris@oberlin.edu</a>></span> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><div>Hi Christian,<br>In response to your first question: there's evidence of indigenous Alutiiq peoples of Alaska using beaver and marmot incisors as carving bits. I don't know if actual use-wear analysis has been done on them though.<br><br>For more info, you can go to this website and do a page search for the word "incisor."<br><a href="http://www.afognak.org/heritage/history/history-intro.php?src=ancient-afognak" target="_blank">http://www.afognak.org/heritage/history/history-intro.php?src=ancient-afognak</a><br><br>And here's the reference for Bob Kopperl's dissertation that talks about marmot incisor tools as the Rice Ridge site, specifically:<br>Kopperl, Robert E.<br>2003 Cultural Complexity and Resource Intensification on Kodiak Island, Alaska. Ph.D. dissertation, University of Washington. University Microfilms, Ann Arbor.<br><br></div>Hope this helps!<br></div>Amy<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div class="h5">On Wed, Dec 17, 2014 at 4:34 PM, Christian Gates St-Pierre <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:cgates70@yahoo.fr" target="_blank">cgates70@yahoo.fr</a>></span> wrote:</div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div class="h5"><div><div style="color:#000;background-color:#fff;font-family:HelveticaNeue,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><div dir="ltr">Hello everyone,</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">I have three questions for the price of one!</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">First: does anyone know about some use-wear analysis on bone tools made out of beaver incisors? (beside Parmigiani & Alvarez-Soncini [2014], of which I already have a copy).</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Second: does anyone have a pdf copy of the following (it is not available through our network of North American university libraries, and I can't find it on the web): <b>Pétrequin & Rachez (1997), «Un biseau naturel: l'incisive de castor», in <i>Les sites littoraux néolithqiues de Clarivaux et de Chalain (Jura), III, Chalain station 3, 3200-2900 av. J.C.</i></b> (published by the Maison des sciences de l'Homme, in Paris)?</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Third: does anyone know about some recent publications dealing with the use of heat (fire) as a technique of hardening (and darkening) bone materials/bone tools, especially in opposition to the total carbonisation of bones which will have the opposing effect (i.e. weakening the bone structure and triggering it's fragmentation)? I know of some «old» references (pre-year 2000), but I was wondering if there was some more recent publications on this precise subject?<br><br>Any help regarding anyone of these queries would be greatly appreciated!<br><br>Thanks in advance and Happy Holidays to all!<br><br>Christian<br><br><br><b>Christian Gates St-Pierre</b>, PhD<br>Invited Researcher<br>Département d'anthropologie<br>Université de Montréal<br><a href="mailto:christian.gates-st-pierre@umontreal.ca" target="_blank">christian.gates-st-pierre@umontreal.ca</a></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div style="font-family:HelveticaNeue,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><div style="font-family:HelveticaNeue,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,linéale;font-size:16px"> </div> </div> </div></div><br></div></div><span class="">_______________________________________________<br>
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