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<p style="margin:0px;font-size:14px;line-height:normal;font-family:helvetica">This is my first post to the BoneTool list*, since my regular research doesn't lead me often to worked bone. However, I'm now analyzing a faunal assemblage from the old moorish parish of Lisbon (Portugal) in which one of the contexts includes some interesting worked bone materials. I'm attaching some photos for you see and, eventually, if possible, help me find some parallel works and/or materials.</p><p style="margin:0px;font-size:14px;line-height:normal;font-family:helvetica"><br></p><p style="margin:0px;font-size:14px;line-height:normal;font-family:helvetica">(*thank you Marta Moreno-García for the suggestion and Alice Choyke for the nice welcome)</p>
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<p style="margin:0px;font-size:14px;line-height:normal;font-family:helvetica">Here some data on the archaeological context in question:</p>
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<p style="margin:0px;font-size:14px;line-height:normal;font-family:helvetica">Chronology. Although located in a site that has context units dating from the 14th to the 20th century, my colleague who did the field work just confirmed to me that he's not sure on the chronology of this specific unit: it could be sometime from the 15th to 20th century (alas!).</p>
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<p style="margin:0px;font-size:14px;line-height:normal;font-family:helvetica">Materials. The unit itself was relatively homogeneous and the worked bone collection (see photo 1 for part of it) included mostly: </p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-size:14px;line-height:normal;font-family:helvetica">(1) Cattle metapodial distal ends, many cut on the distal end of the diaphysis (perpendicular to the axis of the bone) (photo 2).</p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-size:14px;line-height:normal;font-family:helvetica">(2) Many metapodials have the edges (lateral and medial) of the trochleas cut (parallel to the axis of the bone) (photos 3 & 4).</p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-size:14px;line-height:normal;font-family:helvetica">(3) The context also yielded several elongated bone blocs (multifaceted shaft fragments, photo 5), probably to produce tools like needles (one was recovered; I don't have a picture of it at the moment).</p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-size:14px;line-height:normal;font-family:helvetica">(4) In all I have a collection of 90+ metapodials plus 60+ multifaceted shaft fragments. The first ones are in different stages of process (or can be divided in different “subtype” classes; see preliminary sketch included in Draft Scheme image).</p>
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<p style="margin:0px;font-size:14px;line-height:normal;font-family:helvetica">I’d be very grateful for any help that goes on the lines of:</p>
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<p style="margin:0px;font-size:14px;line-height:normal;font-family:helvetica">1) Similar objects and their function. That might be very helpful to limit the chronological frame and their usage. I’m mostly wondering about usage of the trochleas lateral and medial cut extremities like shown in photos 3 & 4.</p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-size:14px;line-height:normal;font-family:helvetica">2) Recommendations for their full study, i.e. methodology references on how to study this kind of materials, other than typological and basic descriptive analyses.</p><p style="margin:0px;font-size:14px;line-height:normal;font-family:helvetica"><br></p><p style="margin:0px;font-size:14px;line-height:normal;font-family:helvetica">My best regards to all,</p><p style="margin:0px;font-size:14px;line-height:normal;font-family:helvetica"><br></p><p style="margin:0px;font-size:14px;line-height:normal;font-family:helvetica">-- MJ</p><p style="margin:0px;font-size:14px;line-height:normal;font-family:helvetica"><br></p><p style="margin:0px;font-size:14px;line-height:normal;font-family:helvetica"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><b>Maria João Valente</b></span></p><p style="margin:0px;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:helvetica"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Professora Auxiliar</span></p><p style="margin:0px;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:helvetica;min-height:14px"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"></span><br></p><p style="margin:0px;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:helvetica"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Universidade do Algarve</span></p><p style="margin:0px;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:helvetica"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Faculdade de Ciências Humanas e Sociais</span></p><p style="margin:0px;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:helvetica"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Campus de Gambelas</span></p><p style="margin:0px;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:helvetica"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">8000-117 Faro – Portugal</span></p><p style="margin:0px;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:helvetica;color:rgb(71,135,255)"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">Email: <a href="mailto:mvalente@ualg.pt"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">mvalente@ualg.pt</span></a></span></p><p style="margin:0px;font-size:14px;line-height:normal;font-family:helvetica">
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