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Bone, antler, ivory & horn : the technology of skeletal materials since the Roman period
\"Artefacts made from skeletal materials since the Roman period were, before this book, neglected as a serious area of study. This ... account, which reviews over fifty categories of artefact, ... starts with a consideration of the formation, morphology, and mechanical properties of the materials and illuminates characteristics concerning working with them. Following chapters discuss the organisation of the industry and trade in such items, including the changing status of the industry over time\"--Amazon.com.
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Bones at a Crossroads
Bone tool studies are at a crossroads. A current path is to go beyond the concatenation of methods or concepts borrowed from other disciplines and aim instead at a truly integrated approach that is more in line with the objectives of interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary research. The papers in this volume follow this direction by adopting various forms of dialogue and integration between old and new methods and approaches, including technological analysis, usewear analysis, typology, zooarchaeology, stable isotope analysis, experimental archaeology or spatial analysis. They represent a mixture of methodological issues, case studies, and discussions of larger cultural and historical phenomena that span thousands of years and many parts of the World, from South Asia to the Near East and Europe, and from North to South America. The synergies deriving from these multi-perspective approaches lead to the repeated identification of diverse social aspects of past societies, including the identification of general social contexts of bone tool production and use, transmission of knowledge, the symbolic dimensions of artifacts, and intergroup relations as well as warfare and state formation processes.All these papers grew out of communications presented at the 13th meeting of the Worked Bone Research Group (WBRG) on October 7th-13th, 2019, at the Département d'anthropologie, Université de Montréal, Canada. The WBRG is an official working group of the International Council for Archaeozoology (ICAZ) dealing with the study of worked faunal remains from archaeological sites.
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Ivory Carving in Yakutia
Within Russia, the major centers of bone carving art are the village of Kholmogory in the Arkhangelsk region, the town of Tobolsk in the Tyumen region (which was considered the center of Siberia in the seventeenth century), Chukotka, and the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia). Geographically, they are connected by their proximity to the northern seas, which explains the main materials used by carvers: walrus tusk and sperm whale tooth. The exception is Sakha (Yakutia), the ancient motherland of mammoths. This article discusses the origin and history of the development of Sakha mammoth tusk carving, the role of ethnocultural contacts at different stages of its development, and the preservation of its authenticity.
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The Lalibela Rock Hewn Site and its Landscape (Ethiopia): An Archaeological Analysis
This article presents the methods employed at the site of Lalibela, Ethiopia during the 2009, 2010, 2011 and part of the 2012 campaigns, as well as the first results obtained. This site consists of a group of rock-cut churches attributed to the sovereign of the same name, King Lalibela, who we know to have reigned in the late 12th century and in the first third of the 13th century. Cut out of solid rock, Lalibela is an exceptional archaeological site since most of the traces of its early phases were eliminated in the process of its transformation. The site thus presents a significant challenge for historians and archaeologists. How is it possible to write its history without excavation? Geomorphological observations of the region offer new keys for understanding Lalibela; identification of the spoil heap, in which we discovered a clear stratigraphy confirming the existence of different cutting phases; the topographic and taphonomic analysis of the remains, and investigations in the cemetery of Qedemt, revealed that the site was formed in multiple phases, probably reflecting a long occupation sequence spanning at least eleven centuries (from the 10th to the 21st century).
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Monument 3 from La Blanca, Guatemala: a Middle Preclassic earthen sculpture and its ritual associations
Beside one of the earliest Preclassic pyramids in Guatemala the authors discovered a large basin fashioned in clay and shaped like a quatrefoil. The use of the quatrefoil theme on other carvings reveals its association with water and its symbolic role as the mouth of an underworld. Excavations in an adjacent mound exposed an affluent community, rich in figurines. This juxtaposition of monuments and residence at La Blanca shows a society of 900-600 BC in which ritual and the secular power were well integrated.
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Scrimshaw
Scrimshaw was the art of the whaleman, done either on shipboard or in closely associated maritime communities, based on materials obtained in the hunt. The art form flourished across several whaling cultures between the mid-1820s and the late 20th centuries. Vaguely analogous to ethnographic creations of tools and cultural objects dating back thousands of years, the American and British commercial whale fishery of the 19th century saw the greatest production of carved, engraved, sculpted, and built objects, both practical and artistic. Most of these objects were made from sperm whale ivory, sperm whale skeletal bone, mysticete baleen, and a host of materials obtained in the fishery including shell, wood, and animal parts like tortoise shell.
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Swift Creek Paddle Designs as Tattoos
Swift Creek complicated stamped pottery is one of the most elaborately decorated forms of pottery in eastern North America (Figure 3.1). Found primarily in Georgia and adjacent states at sites dating to the Middle and late woodland period (ca. AD 100–850), this pottery is distinguished by complex naturalistic and geometric designs that were applied to pots with carved wooden paddles (Broyles 1968; snow 1998; Wallis 2011; Williams and Elliott 1998). In recent years, great progress has been made in interpreting the meaning of the designs stamped on swift Creek pots (Saunders 1998; snow 1998; Wallis 2007), in delineating the
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A Mammoth-Ivory Semifabricate from Blackwater Locality No. 1, New Mexico
A carved segment of mammoth ivory recently recognized in a faunal collection from the Clovis type site at Blackwater Draw, New Mexico, reveals for the first time techniques employed by Clovis Paleoindians for working ivory and adds a new trait element shared between the archaeological cultures of the Eurasian Upper Paleolithic and the late Pleistocene Clovis complex of North America.
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