<div dir="ltr">Dear Sonia,<div> I cannot think of anyone who has carried out such research - it looks like a strong MA thesis to me! Actually - I wonder if we are missing comparable archaeological examples because these are singular items where the coloration is likely not going to be preserved. </div><div><br></div><div>Alice</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jul 22, 2015 at 1:26 PM, Sonia O'Connor <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:S.Oconnor@bradford.ac.uk" target="_blank">S.Oconnor@bradford.ac.uk</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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<font face="Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-size:12pt">I have attached a photo I took in Hull Maritime Museum - a cetacean auditory bulla painted to form a face.</span></font><font face="Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-size:12pt"> I
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Pat Hadley on Twitter: "New favourite artefact! @YorkCastle has a whole set of these horse vertebrae figures! <a href="http://t.co/Vbbae7lU6l" target="_blank">http://t.co/Vbbae7lU6l</a> <a href="http://t.co/H3Ch5yle21" target="_blank">http://t.co/H3Ch5yle21</a>"</div>
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“New favourite artefact! @YorkCastle has a whole set of these horse vertebrae figures! <a href="http://t.co/Vbbae7lU6l" target="_blank">http://t.co/Vbbae7lU6l</a>”</div>
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</font><font face="Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-size:12pt">Both these objects </span></font><font face="Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-size:12pt">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" title="http://www.archaeologyreportsonline.com/PDF/ARO12_Painted_Pebbles.pdf
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instance</span></font><font face="Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-size:12pt">. </span></font><font face="Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-size:12pt">Even
if the paint is lost sometimes the bone </span></font><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">many have been</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"> modified a little </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">to
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<span style="font-size:12pt">Unlike gaming pieces, t</span><span style="font-size:12pt">hese objects are not necessarily </span><span style="font-size:12pt">functional </span><span style="font-size:12pt"> but might still have been significant to their owners
in other ways. </span><span style="font-size:12pt">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">ossibly</span><span style="font-size:12pt"> some bones were kept as lucky charms? </span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12pt">The evidence might be quite slight but I think this would be a fascinating area to investigate. Is anyone doing this?</span></p>
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<div>Division of AGES</div>
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