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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Dear Miriam,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Thanks you for the extra photos. Yes I think this is cetacean material, not only because of the size but also the open texture and the presence of what appears
to be large osteon structures.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:72.0pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Dr Sonia O'Connor
</span><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">PhD FSA FIIC ACR Honorary Visiting Fellow, University of York</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:72.0pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">University of Bradford<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:72.0pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">tel 01274 23 6498<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> Miriam Luciañez Triviño [mailto:mlucianez@us.es]
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<b>Sent:</b> 19 February 2016 16:46<br>
<b>To:</b> Sonia O'Connor<br>
<b>Subject:</b> identification of osseous raw material<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">Dear Sonia,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Thank you very much for your response. I was rather inclined to think that this artifact is made of some kind of bone, just because of the possible suture you have pointed out. But... if it is bone, from what part of the skeleton? Because the thickness of the
piece is 1.2 cm. In order to get such dense thick piece, the block of raw material should be larger than 1.2 cm...Has the skull of any animal this thickness? I am sorry, I have not enough experience to know it...<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Could be from a cranium of a cetacean (without more analysis I know that could sounds adventurous)? I was thinking on that because other researchers have found pieces made in sperm-whale ivory in a Chalcolithic site in Portugal (<a href="http://tp.revistas.csic.es/index.php/tp/article/view/645/667">http://tp.revistas.csic.es/index.php/tp/article/view/645/667</a>).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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I will not want to bother you but I send to you other photos, maybe they are not too good, but at this moment I have not others. Sorry.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Thanks for your help. <br>
I wish you a good weekend.<br>
Miriam<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<pre><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times","serif";color:#3366FF">Miriam Luciañez Triviño</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><br></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times","serif"">Contrato Predoctoral del Gobierno Vasco<br><br>Departamento de Prehistoria y Arqueología<br>Universidad de Sevilla<br>María de Padilla s/n. 41004. Sevilla. Spain<br>Phone: (34) 954 556906<br>Fax: (34) 954 559920<br><br>E-mail: <a href="mailto:mlucianez@us.es">mlucianez@us.es</a><br><a href="http://www.departamento.us.es/dpreyarq/web">http://www.departamento.us.es/dpreyarq/web</a><br><a href="http://www.grupo.us.es/atlas">http://www.grupo.us.es/atlas</a></span><o:p></o:p></pre>
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