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<br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 22 Jul 2015, at 13:26, Sonia O'Connor <<a href="mailto:S.Oconnor@bradford.ac.uk" class="">S.Oconnor@bradford.ac.uk</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div id="divtagdefaultwrapper" style="font-family: Times-Roman; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" class=""><span id="cid:2c666577-064f-426b-b79b-9d0c0dbdfdaa"><HULLMKINCM2005.2422bullacet (1).JPG></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" class="">Dear All,</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" class=""><font face="Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt;" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" class=""><font face="Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt;" class="">I have attached a photo I took in Hull Maritime Museum - a cetacean auditory bulla painted to form a face.</font><font face="Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt;" class=""> I was reminded of this when I received this Tweet this morning </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" class=""><font face="Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt;" class=""></span><a href="https://twitter.com/PatHadley/status/622016063690121218" id="LPlnk243382" class="">https://twitter.com/PatHadley/status/622016063690121218</a> </font><br class=""></div><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""></span></p><div id="LPBorder_GT_14375630774510.059221873292699456" style="margin-top: 20px; margin-bottom: 20px; overflow: auto; width: 913px;" class=""><table id="LPContainer_14375630774490.24735672562383115" style="border-top-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-top-width: 1px; border-top-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); width: 730px; position: relative; overflow: auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><tbody class=""><tr valign="top" class=""><td id="ImageCell_14375630774500.6967921264003962" colspan="1" style="width: 140px; position: relative; display: table-cell; padding: 0px;" class=""><div id="LPImageContainer_14375630774500.9635596559382975" style="margin-top: 12px; height: auto; width: 140px; position: relative; display: table; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><a id="LPImageAnchor_14375630774500.9396508897189051" href="https://twitter.com/PatHadley/status/622016063690121218" target="_blank" style="display: table-cell; text-align: center;" class=""><img aria-label="Preview image with link selected. Double-tap to open the link." width="121" height="140" src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CKHX5l6VEAAQaOv.jpg:large" style="display: inline-block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: 140px; max-height: 140px; height: 140px; width: 121px; border-width: 0px;" class=""></a></div></td><td class=""><div id="LPTitle_14375630774510.906324980314821" style="top: 0px; margin-top: 8px; font-size: 21px; font-family: wf_segoe-ui_semilight, 'Segoe UI Semilight', 'Segoe WP Semilight', 'Segoe UI', 'Segoe WP', Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); margin-left: 14px; margin-right: 14px;" class="">Pat Hadley on Twitter: "New favourite artefact! @YorkCastle has a whole set of these horse vertebrae figures!<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://t.co/Vbbae7lU6l" class="">http://t.co/Vbbae7lU6l</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://t.co/H3Ch5yle21" class="">http://t.co/H3Ch5yle21</a>"</div><div id="LPDescription_14375630774510.04647640185430646" style="margin-top: 8px; font-size: 13px; font-family: wf_segoe-ui_normal, 'Segoe UI', 'Segoe WP', Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); margin-left: 14px; margin-right: 14px;" class="">“New favourite artefact! @YorkCastle has a whole set of these horse vertebrae figures!<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://t.co/Vbbae7lU6l" class="">http://t.co/Vbbae7lU6l</a>”</div><div id="LPUrlContainer_14375630774510.6664982445072383" style="margin: 8px 14px 10px; height: 18px; text-overflow: ellipsis; overflow: hidden; white-space: nowrap;" class=""><a id="LPUrlAnchor_14375630774510.9774745954200625" href="https://twitter.com/PatHadley/status/622016063690121218" target="_blank" style="font-size: 11px; font-family: wf_segoe-ui_normal, 'Segoe UI', 'Segoe WP', Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif; text-decoration: none;" class="">Read more...</a></div></td></tr></tbody></table></div><font face="Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" class="">I think these objects </font><span style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" class="">qualify as 'worked'. </span><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class=""></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt;" class=""></span><font face="Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" class=""><br class=""></font><font face="Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt;" class="">Both these objects </font><font face="Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt;" class="">are relatively recent survivals (the preacher is possibly 18th C and the face 19th or even 20th C). Can anyone post other/earlier examples? What other species/skeletal elements were used and what were the subjects that these natural shapes inspired? I wonder how far back this traditions goes? There are now many records of painted pebbles from sites, such as those from Shetland </span><a href="http://www.archaeologyreportsonline.com/PDF/ARO12_Painted_Pebbles.pdf" id="LPlnk536781" title="http://www.archaeologyreportsonline.com/PDF/ARO12_Painted_Pebbles.pdf
Ctrl+Click or tap to follow the link" class="">http://www.archaeologyreportsonline.com/PDF/ARO12_Painted_Pebbles.pdf</a><span style="font-size: 12pt;" class=""> for instance</span></font><font face="Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt;" class="">. </font><font face="Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt;" class="">Even if the paint is lost sometimes the bone<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></font><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">many have been</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>modified a little </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">to enhance the shape or add detail.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""> </span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt;" class="">Unlike gaming pieces, t</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;" class="">hese objects are not necessarily </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;" class="">functional </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;" class=""> but might still have been significant to their owners in other ways. </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;" class="">Perhaps just the pleasing shape of some bones led to them being retained and handled (in the way that some fossils clearly were and still are by the finder). Humour is something that is difficult to detect through the study of bone finds but these two examples appear to me to be comical. P</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;" class="">ossibly</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;" class=""><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>some bones were kept as lucky charms? </span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt;" class="">The evidence might be quite slight but I think this would be a fascinating area to investigate. Is anyone doing this?</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" class="">Sonia</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" class=""><br class=""></div><br class=""><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" class=""><br class=""></div><div id="Signature" style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" class=""><div name="divtagdefaultwrapper" style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 0px;" class="">Dr Sonia O'Connor<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><font size="1" class="">PhD FSA FIIC ACR Honorary Visiting Fellow, University of York</font><div class="">Post-doctoral Researcher</div><div class="">Archaeological Sciences</div><div class="">Division of AGES</div><div class="">University of Bradford</div><div class="">Bradford, West Yorkshire, BD7 1DP</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Tel 01274 236498</div></div></div></div><span style="font-family: Times-Roman; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">_______________________________________________</span><br style="font-family: Times-Roman; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: Times-Roman; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">Bonetools mailing list</span><br style="font-family: Times-Roman; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class=""><a href="mailto:Bonetools@listserv.niif.hu" style="font-family: Times-Roman; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class="">Bonetools@listserv.niif.hu</a><br style="font-family: Times-Roman; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class=""><a href="https://listserv.niif.hu/mailman/listinfo/bonetools" style="font-family: Times-Roman; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class="">https://listserv.niif.hu/mailman/listinfo/bonetools</a></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></body></html>