Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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7439734 | L'Anthropologie | 2018 | 14 Pages |
Abstract
Dealing with objects made on osseous materials as mammoth ivory involves questions about the availability of this raw material within the territories occupied by palaeolithic societies. In the case of green ivory procurement, this availability is directly linked with the geographical distribution of mammoth populations. The ways of procurement of this raw material seem to be guided also by some cultural traditions. The authors propose a reflexion about these zooarchaeological issues and the first technical gestures, which come in the initial stages of any exploitation of true ivory.
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Authors
Carole Vercoutère, Marylène Patou-Mathis,