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The Cultural Significance of Historic Bone Tools (2023)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Marie-Lorraine Pipes.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Artifacts are More Than Enough: Recentering the Artifact in Historical Archaeology", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Bone tools are commonly found on historic sites, but to date no one has discussed them, identified their makers, nor considered their uses. Without an interpretive framework, bone tools have fallen into a void and become a lost source of information. Recent investigations at a few...