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Many everyday items were, and still are, made from animal bones, antlers and horns. Anything from buttons, hair combs, hair sticks, drinking vessels, and so on.
I would like to make a few horn hair
combs, horn buttons, bone Tablet Weaving 'cards', and maybe a drinking vessel from horn.
"Antlers, on members of the deer family, are grown as an extension of the animal's skull. They are true bone and are a single structure, and in most species only occur on males, reindeer being an exception. In many temperate zone species, antlers are shed and regrown each year. Although they have other functions, their main one is in sexual selection, whether for display to females or in fighting with other males." Wiki: Antler
"Horn, a hard, flexible, translucent material that is formed from cells of the outer layer of skin, or epidermis. Projections of bone covered with horn, which grow on the heads of cattle, sheep, goats, bison, buffalo, and antelopes, are called horns. Deer antlers are sometimes called horns, but they are of solid bone without a horny covering. The horns on the nose of the rhinoceros are made up of solid masses of modified hair without a core of bone. Fingernails, toenails, claws, and hoofs are made of horn. Other horny growths include the scales of reptiles; whalebone, from the mouths of baleen whales; and the horny covering of birds' beaks and the bony shells of most turtles. The chemical basis of horn is keratin, a fibrous protein that accumulates in the epidermal cells." Animal Planet
Horn (anatomy)
on Wiki
What are antlers and why do deer have them?
on QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS: Deer
Horns and Antlers
on
ADW: Horns and Antlers
Bone
Written in Bones: Studies on technological and social contexts of past faunal skeletal remains (326-page, PDF, 146Mb)
Editors:
Justyna Baron and Bernadeta Kufel-Diakowska
Reviewers: Arkadiusz Marciniak, Jarosław Wilczyński
© Institute of Archaeology, University of Wrocław and individual authors 2011
ISBN 978-83-61416-64-7
- 2 individual articles are listed below as PDF files
Bone and Antler Working
by Ben Levick and Roland Williamson
Hair Combs
Viking Age Combs, Comb Making and Comb Makers: In the Light of Finds from Birka and Ribe (182-page PDF)
by Ambrosiani, Kristina
Faculty of Humanities, Stockholm University
Doctoral thesis, 1981 (more details; details)
"This thesis discusses the types of comb used in the Viking age, their production and the factors affecting the craft of comb making around the south Baltic and the North Sea. It is based on an analysis of the 325 combs found in the graves of Birka and of the comb making debris found in the recent excavations at Ribe. Published evidence from many other sites is also used. The combs used throughout this area were remarkably similar, and changes in their form and decoration apparently occurred simultaneously in widely separated places. It is argued that this was the result of the activity of itinerant comb makers rather than of traders or locally based craftsmen. Most of the combs were of high quality and must have been made by specialists. Comb making debris is found in most Viking period market places showing that they were made throughout the area. An attempt is made to determine whether combs were made of elk or red deer antler, a matter of particular interest because elk was the natural raw material in, for example, Birka and Staraja Ladoga, while in south Scandinavia it was red deer. By calculating the number of combs made annually in different places, and the time needed to make them, it is shown that the debris in any one place cannot represent a full year's work, and it is argued that the craftsmen travelled from place to place making, and selling, combs at the different markets. The evidence further suggests that there was some measure of regularity and organisation in the holding of markets throughout this area in the Viking period."
Combs and comb making in Viking Age and Middle Ages (12-page, PDF)
by Dan Carlsson (ArkeoDok)
10 th Century Norse Comb (6-page, PDF)
by Danr Bjornson
Viking Comb (4-page, PDF)
by Danr Bjornson
Bone and antler combs (8-page, PDF)
by Steve Ashby
DATASHEET 40
The Finds Research Group AD700 - 1700
Dutch medieval bone and antler combs (13-page, PDF)
by Marloes Rijkelijkhuizen
Found in: Written in Bones: Studies on technological and social contexts of past faunal skeletal remains
edited by Justyna Baron, Bernadeta Kufel-Diakowska
Uniwersytet Wroclawski, Instytut Archeologii Wroclaw, 2011
"Riveted Mount" Reconsidered: Horn Composite Combs in Early Medieval Britain, Ireland and France (27-page, PDF)
by Jean Soulat
Other
Using and working with Horn ***
by
I. Marc Carlson
The bone and antler tools from the Wijnaldum-Tjitsma terp
by Wietske Prummel, Hülya Halici, Annemieke Verbaas
Journal of Archaeology in the Low Countries 3-1 (November 2011)
Prehistoric antler- and bone tools from Kaposújlak-Várdomb (South-Western Hungary) with special regard to the Early Bronze Age implements (32-page, PDF)
by Erika Gál
Found in: Written in Bones: Studies on technological and social contexts of past faunal skeletal remains
edited by Justyna Baron, Bernadeta Kufel-Diakowska
Uniwersytet Wroclawski, Instytut Archeologii Wroclaw, 2011
Let's skate together! Skating on bones in the past and today (23-page, PDF)
by
Hans Christian Küchelmann and Petar Zidarov
From Hooves to Horns, from Mollusc to Mammoth Manufacture and Use of Bone Artefacts from Prehistoric Times to the Present
Proceedings of the 4th Meeting of the ICAZ Worked Bone Research Group at Tallinn, 26th–31st of August 2003
Edited by Heidi Luik, Alice M. Choyke, Colleen E. Batey and Lembi Lõugas
Tallinn 2005
Viking ship recreated with rivets on threads
- A picture of "an engraved folding comb carved out of bone that" is inluded on the webpage, but no other details are there.
Experiments and Experiences on Bone, Tooth and Antler
by The Worked Bone Research Group (WBRG)
- A webpage with several publications are available as PDFs.
The Worked Bone Research Group (WBRG)
'...is an official Working Group of the International Council for Archaeozoology (ICAZ) since June 2000. The purpose of the WBRG is to improve communication between individuals studying worked animal hard tissues (especially bone, antler, and ivory) with special emphasis on archaeological finds. A broad diachronic, and multi-disciplinary approach is emphasized in order to promote the exchange of ideas concerning attitudes to and procurement of raw materials, technology, and cognitive aspects of bone working."
Miscellany
JCMcCairn on Etsy
- She sells hair combs made from antlers that are unique and lovely.
Carving a Bushcraft Comb
&
2-ply Cordage Making Techniques
on Bushcraft.ridgeonnet.com
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