<div dir="ltr">Dear Gloria,<div> Two points one of which is a reminder to other people on the list). If you saw Manuel's letter then you must be on the list but at a different e-mail address. Remember - if you have several addresses then you might want to register otherwise your letters will not get through or must allow them through separately. </div><div> Secondly - I have seen these cattle scapula from the Late Bronze Age levels at Tell Dor in Israel and I have even seen similar objects from the Early Bronze Age in Arslantepe in central-eastern Turkey. Nevertheless there are so many notched tools that can have so many different uses - these LBA-Iron Age scapula are well worn with a high use polish . Manuel's small split caprine metatarsals seem to have much sharper edges so I really doubt the function could have been similar. </div><div> Thank you for these two articles - I was unaware of them and it is nice to see the distribution area of this type begin to emerge.</div><div><br></div><div>Best,</div><div>Alice</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Jan 23, 2016 at 9:03 PM, Brown, Gloria Howat <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:gloriabrown@saclink.csus.edu" target="_blank">gloriabrown@saclink.csus.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hello Manuel,<br>
I'm studying scapular tools that are from western North America. In my background research, I came across notched scapulae from the Mediterranean/Middle East that look similar to your photo.<br>
Zukerman et al. 2007 has good images of a couple of them. Reese 2002 has a good lit review, if I remember correctly.<br>
Wishing you the best,<br>
Gloria Howat Brown<br>
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Subject: [Bonetools] Marks on a bone tool<br>
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Dear colleagues, I am studying a small bone assemblage from a Neolithic<br>
cave site from Granada, in southern Spain. I´ve seen some sort of small<br>
parallel groves over the edges of a point tool. Do you have any<br>
suggestion about their origin? Function?<br>
Any suggestion is welcome!<br>
Thank you in advance!<br>
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Manuel Altamirano García<br>
Investigador Postdoctoral<br>
Dpto. Prehistoria y Arqueología<br>
Facultad de Filosofía y Letras<br>
Campus de Cartuja s/n 18071<br>
Universidad de Granada (España)<br>
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