<html><body><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000"><div data-marker="__QUOTED_TEXT__"><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000"><div>I just come on this series of 7 mails : whalbone, scapula? But it's much symmetrical, and I am on countryside, without any bone to compare</div><br><hr id="zwchr"><div><b>De: </b>"Heidi Luik" <heidi.luik@mail.ee><br><b>À: </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><br><b>Envoyé: </b>Mercredi 6 Avril 2022 14:00:55<br><b>Objet: </b>Re: [Bonetools] Antler Axe head<br></div><br><div>Dear Fiona,<br>
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I would suggest Peter Paulsens books:<br>
<span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><span style="color:#00000a">PAULSEN, P., 1939. <i>Axt und Kreuz bei den Nordgermanen. Deutsches Ahnenerbe, Reihe B: Fachwissenschafliche Untersuchungen. Arbeiten zur Ur-, Vor- und Frühgeschichte</i>. Berlin: Ahnenerbe-Stiftung-Verlag.</span></span></span></span><br>
<span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><span style="color:#00000a">PAULSEN, P., 1956. <i>Axt und Kreuz in Nord- und Osteuropa. 2. erweiterte und verbesserte Auflage von Axt und Kreuz bei den Nordgermanen</i>. Bonn: Rudolf Habelt Verlag.</span></span></span></span><br>
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There is a chapter about axes made of bone, and at least one axe mentioned there is made of whalebone (found from Grönland and dated to the 10th-11th centuries). I have pdf of this chapter of the 1956 book, I add it to the letter.<br>
I also add my article about some antler axes found from Estonia.<br>
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Best wishes,<br>
Heidi<br>
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<b>Subject: </b>[Bonetools] Antler Axe head<br>
<b>Date: </b>K, 6 apr 2022, 13:30<br>
<b>From: </b> fiona beglane <a href="mailto:fionabeglane@yahoo.com" target="_blank"><fionabeglane@yahoo.com></a><br>
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<div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; ">I am looking for any parallels that people might know of. And also anyone's thoughts on function, as it would seem to me that it would have little use for woodworking or for butchery - but I am open to correction on this. </div>
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<div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; ">Thank you all, as always</div>
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Licensed Archaeologist<br>
Donegal, Ireland<br>
087 686 3914 (M)<br>
Alternate email address: beglane.fiona@itsligo.ie<br>
Atlantic Technological University, Sligo Campus<br>
<a href="http://itsligo.academia.edu/fionabeglane" target="_blank">http://itsligo.academia.edu/fionabeglane</a></span></span><br>
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