<html><head></head><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue-Light, Helvetica Neue Light, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:13px"><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1453820453316_88585" dir="ltr">Thanks everyone. Two people have suggested it could be shell based on the microstructure. Are there varieties of shell that have such a yellowish and bonish aspect at a macro-level of observation?<br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1453820453316_88557"><span></span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1453820453316_88586"> </div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1453820453316_88558" class="signature"><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1429623001091_14059" dir="ltr"><b id="yui_3_16_0_1_1429623001091_14084">Christian Gates St-Pierre</b>, PhD<br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1429623001091_14070" dir="ltr">Chercheur invité / Invited Researcher<br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1429623001091_14071" dir="ltr">Département d'anthropologie</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1429623001091_14072" dir="ltr">Université de Montréal</div>christian.gates-st-pierre@umontreal.ca</div><br> <div class="qtdSeparateBR"><br><br></div><div style="display: block;" class="yahoo_quoted"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light, Helvetica Neue Light, 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 dir="ltr"> <font face="Arial" size="2"> <hr size="1"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">De :</span></b> Sonia O'Connor <S.Oconnor@bradford.ac.uk><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">À :</span></b> "Mailing list for archaeologists of the research group for the study of object and waste of bone, antler. ivory and horn." <bonetools@listserv.niif.hu>; Christian Gates St-Pierre <cgates70@yahoo.fr> <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Envoyé le :</span></b> mardi 26 janvier 2016 18h52<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Objet :</span></b> Re: [Bonetools] A possible ivory pendant<br> </font> </div> <div class="y_msg_container"><br><div id="yiv1903094493"><style type="text/css">#yiv1903094493 #yiv1903094493 -- P {margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;}#yiv1903094493 </style><div dir="ltr">
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<div>Dear Christian,</div>
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<div>This is definitely not an ivory but the structure could well be that of shell.</div>
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<div dir="ltr" id="yiv1903094493divRplyFwdMsg"><font style="font-size:11pt;" face="Calibri, sans-serif" color="#000000"><b>From:</b> Bonetools <bonetools-bounces@listserv.niif.hu> on behalf of Christian Gates St-Pierre <cgates70@yahoo.fr><br clear="none">
<b>Sent:</b> 26 January 2016 19:08<br clear="none">
<b>To:</b> Mailing list for archaeologists of the research group for the study of object and waste of bone, antler. ivory and horn.<br clear="none">
<b>Subject:</b> [Bonetools] A possible ivory pendant</font>
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<div id="yiv1903094493yui_3_16_0_1_1453820453316_47210"><span id="yiv1903094493yui_3_16_0_1_1453820453316_47255">Hi folks,</span></div>
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<div dir="ltr" id="yiv1903094493yui_3_16_0_1_1453820453316_47330"><span id="yiv1903094493yui_3_16_0_1_1453820453316_47255">I have a colleague who found an artifact on an Iroquoian site in Ontario and has two questions about it:</span></div>
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<div dir="ltr" id="yiv1903094493yui_3_16_0_1_1453820453316_47546"><span id="yiv1903094493yui_3_16_0_1_1453820453316_47255">1) Could it be ivory?</span></div>
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<div dir="ltr" id="yiv1903094493yui_3_16_0_1_1453820453316_47331"><span id="yiv1903094493yui_3_16_0_1_1453820453316_47255">2) What function could it have? A pendant is the best interpretation I could think of considering the two (partial) perforations, but I wonder if there could be
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