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<p>Dear bonetoolers,</p>
<p>F. Poplin has had problems to send his latest emails to the mailing list, and he asked me to forward them.</p>
<p>Here his answer to my question about <span>taphonomy on ivory objects:</span></p>
<div><span style="color: #333399;">Something like that ?</span></div>
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<div><span style="color: #333399;">281 POPLIN F., 2007 – Note sur la dégradation de l'ivoire. À propos du fragment de plaque cat. 358 et des pyxides cat. 72 et 75, <em>in</em> : J. Gachet-Bizollon, Les ivoires d'Ougarit, <em>Ras Shamra-Ougarit </em>XVI, Paris, éd. Recherche sur les Civilisations, 26-30, fig. 7 (5) et 8, Pl. 42, 70 et 105</span></div>
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<div>and here his last email with some questions regarding the narwhal:</div>
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<div><span style="color: #333399;">Dear colleagues,</span></div>
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<div><span style="color: #333399;">1°) I would like very much see the right vestigial tooth of narval (extracted from the jaw)</span></div>
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<div><span style="color: #333399;">2°) Did somebody see a narval with it's long tusk on the right ?</span></div>
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<div><span style="color: #333399;">3°) I join an example of two-tusked one.</span></div>
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<div><span style="color: #333399;">Your's.</span></div>
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<pre><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #3366ff; font-family: andale mono,times;">Miriam Luciañez Triviño</span><br /><span style="font-family: andale mono,times;">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: mlucianez@us.es<br />http://www.departamento.us.es/dpreyarq/web<br />http://www.grupo.us.es/atlas</span></span></pre>
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