<html><body><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000"><div>In the mean time, I have seen some bones at home of my colleague Patrice Méniel.</div><div> He thinks that the eye has been made,</div><div><br data-mce-bogus="1"></div><div>and if it is man made, it may be flat antler.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><hr id="zwchr" data-marker="__DIVIDER__"><div data-marker="__HEADERS__"><b>De: </b>"François POPLIN" <francois.poplin@mnhn.fr><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>Cc: </b>"arlene" <arlene@acsu.ie><br><b>Envoyé: </b>Jeudi 7 Avril 2022 10:00:17<br><b>Objet: </b>Re: [Bonetools] Antler Axe head<br></div><div><br></div><div data-marker="__QUOTED_TEXT__"><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000"><div>can you make a picture of the opposite side of fig. 1 ? On this fig. 1, I feel a light assymmetry, which could lead to a transversal apophysis rather than to a dorsal one, and the channel could be a trachelian (of the neck) one ; but the vertebraes of the neck o whales are too crashed/flat for that. A last a tiny hope lies in the caudal region, with the ventral ephiphyises of the hemal arc, but I do not see/remember/know their morphology.</div><div>You ca see skeletons on line.</div><br><hr id="zwchr"><div><b>De: </b>"fiona beglane" <fionabeglane@yahoo.com><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>, "arlene" <arlene@acsu.ie><br><b>Envoyé: </b>Mercredi 6 Avril 2022 12:28:15<br><b>Objet: </b>[Bonetools] Antler Axe head<br></div><br><div><div class="ydpf44ce560yahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:16px;"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Hi everyone,</div><div dir="ltr" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">This axe head came up on a burial site of probable medieval date in Ireland. It was found among animal bone and disarticulated human bone, and seems to be made of antler. </div><div dir="ltr" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><br></div><div dir="ltr" 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></div><div dir="ltr" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><br></div><div dir="ltr" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Thank you all, as always</div><div dir="ltr" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Fiona</div><br></div><br><div class="ydpf44ce560signature"><div style="font-family:Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:16px;"><span style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:tahoma, times, serif;"><div style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt;line-height:normal;" class="ydp9203542eMsoNormal"><span style="color:black;font-size:10pt;" lang="EN-US">Fiona Beglane PhD MIAI</span><span style="font-size:10pt;" lang="EN-US"></span></div><div style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt;line-height:normal;" dir="ltr" class="ydp9203542eMsoNormal"><span style="color:black;font-size:10pt;" lang="EN-US">Animal Bone Specialist<br> 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>http://itsligo.academia.edu/fionabeglane<br><br><br></span></div></span></div></div></div></div><div id="ydp8ae283a6yahoo_quoted_9418590626" class="ydp8ae283a6yahoo_quoted"><div style="font-family:'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;color:#26282a;"><div><div id="ydp8ae283a6yiv0622882525"><br>
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