<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:13px"><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1419005318515_3288" dir="ltr">I know about Osgood's book, and some other ethographic works of the same kind that contains descriptions and illustrations of beaver incisors used as chisels or side-scrapers. But what I am more precisely looking for are use-wear analyses conducted on beaver incisors: those are not as common...</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1419005318515_3553" dir="ltr"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1419005318515_3291" dir="ltr">Thanks for all the hints you provide, I appreciate it. I've also got some interesting suggestions/references by other folks that I will try to find: if they happen to contain the information I'm looking for I will let you know and transmit those references to you as well. I must also say that I will conduct some experiments myself on beaver incisors (among other bone tools) next semester, so hopefully this may contribute to fill the lacunae for this matter.<br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1419005318515_3555" dir="ltr"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1419005318515_3292" dir="ltr">Best,</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1419005318515_3556" dir="ltr"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1419005318515_3557" dir="ltr">Christian<br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1419005318515_3283"><span></span></div><br> <div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1419005318515_3287" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"> <div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1419005318515_3286" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, linéale; font-size: 16px;"> <div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1419005318515_3285" dir="ltr"> <hr id="yui_3_16_0_1_1419005318515_3284" size="1"> <font id="yui_3_16_0_1_1419005318515_3563" face="Arial" size="2"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">De :</span></b> Alice Choyke <Choyke@ceu.hu><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">À :</span></b> antler. ivory and horn. Mailing list for archaeologists of the research group for the study ofobject and waste of bone <bonetools@listserv.niif.hu> <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Envoyé le :</span></b> vendredi 19 décembre 2014 7h15<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Objet :</span></b> Re: [Bonetools] Three questions<br> </font> </div> <div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1419005318515_3564" class="y_msg_container"><br><div id="yiv0386926092"><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1419005318515_3566">
<div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1419005318515_3565">Dear Christian,</div>
<div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1419005318515_3567"> I recommend you try and find a copy on Abe's list etc. of Ingalik Material Culture by Cornelius Osgood (1940), Yale University Publication in Anthropology #22, New Haven.</div>
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<div>Pages 83-90 deal exclusively with beaver jaw and tooth tools. </div>
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<div>I have no doubt there are other North American ethnographies that contain equally detailed info. but this one I have in my hand and it has proved unbelievably useful.<br clear="none"><br clear="none"></div>
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<div class="yiv0386926092yqt3760330042" id="yiv0386926092yqt13378"><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.
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<div class="yiv0386926092gmail_quote">On Thu, Dec 18, 2014 at 5:49 PM, Margaris, Amy V. <span dir="ltr"><<a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:amy.margaris@oberlin.edu" target="_blank" href="mailto:amy.margaris@oberlin.edu">amy.margaris@oberlin.edu</a>></span> wrote:
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<div>Hi Christian,<br clear="none">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 clear="none"><br clear="none">For more info, you can go to this website and do a page search for the word "incisor."<br clear="none"><a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" target="_blank" href="http://www.afognak.org/heritage/history/history-intro.php?src=ancient-afognak">http://www.afognak.org/heritage/history/history-intro.php?src=ancient-afognak</a><br clear="none"><br clear="none">And here's the reference for Bob Kopperl's dissertation that talks about marmot incisor tools as the Rice Ridge site, specifically:<br clear="none">Kopperl, Robert E.<br clear="none">2003 Cultural Complexity and Resource Intensification on Kodiak Island, Alaska. Ph.D. dissertation, University of Washington. University Microfilms, Ann Arbor.<br clear="none"><br clear="none"></div>Hope this helps!<br clear="none"></div>Amy<br clear="none"></div>
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<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>
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<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>
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<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 clear="none"><br clear="none">Any help regarding anyone of these queries would be greatly appreciated!<br clear="none"><br clear="none">Thanks in advance and Happy Holidays to all!<br clear="none"><br clear="none">Christian<br clear="none"><br clear="none"><br clear="none"><b>Christian Gates St-Pierre</b>, PhD<br clear="none">Invited Researcher<br clear="none">Département d'anthropologie<br clear="none">Université de Montréal<br clear="none"><a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:christian.gates-st-pierre@umontreal.ca" target="_blank" href="mailto:christian.gates-st-pierre@umontreal.ca">christian.gates-st-pierre@umontreal.ca</a></div>
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