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From: Alice Choyke <choyke@gmail.com><br>
To: 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><br>
Sent: Fri, Sep 20, 2019 3:10 am<br>
Subject: Re: [Bonetools] "Glissen", skates?<br>
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<div>Dear Natalie,
<div> This is a way understudied subject in my opinion. Furthermore, it is my imptession thst there are tools whose use creates macrowear which is VERY similar to the polish wear created as skates glide over ice with small particles on the surface. While it is not necessary to have either double skates or skates with binding holes (in Hungary there is recent ethnographic reporting from .ca 50 years ago of single skates used on the ice something like skate boards as well as sled runners, generally from horse metapodials). On the other hand there are plenty of examples of long bones with flat faceted surfaces which clearly have nothing to do with skating. In Hunargy I can think of examples from our the middle to late Bronze Age as well as much later Sarmation examples. Hungary is hardly alone in thiss phenomenon - and in having archaeologist who persist in calling any faceted mammalian long bone a skate!</div>
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<div class="yiv9567499051gmail_attr" dir="ltr">On Fri, Sep 20, 2019, 11:49 nathalie pil <<a rel="noopener noreferrer" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:nathalie_pil@hotmail.com" target="_blank" href="mailto:nathalie_pil@hotmail.com">nathalie_pil@hotmail.com</a>> wrote:<br clear="none"></div>
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<div class="yiv9567499051MsoNormal">Dear colleagues,</div>
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<div class="yiv9567499051MsoNormal">In the early medieval archaeozoological collection of Domburg (coastal site in the Netherlands) are different types of skates (glissen).</div>
<div class="yiv9567499051MsoNormal">Skates are frequently made out of horse or cattle bone. But in Domburg, 90% of the skates are made out of sheep/goat radii or metacarpi. These bones sometimes belong to immature animals.
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<div class="yiv9567499051MsoNormal">The site knows a presence of 60% sheep, 31% cattle and 9% pig. The presence of sheep is probably caused by the landscape (they grazed on salt pastures) on one hand, and the wool/skin trade on the other hand.
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<div class="yiv9567499051MsoNormal">Usewear shows that the bone surface changed by friction (see document in attachment).</div>
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<div class="yiv9567499051MsoNormal">Holes to fasten the skates to shoes are not present. Are these sheep/goat bones also skates? Can this wear be caused by an other activity?</div>
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<div class="yiv9567499051MsoNormal">Kinds regards,</div>
<div class="yiv9567499051MsoNormal">Nathalie Pil</div>
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