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- From: hecate@ac.dal.ca
- Newsgroups: sci.archaeology
- Subject: re:elks, plus bone and stone
- Message-ID: <1992Dec23.135602.9750@ac.dal.ca>
- Date: 23 Dec 92 13:56:02 -0400
- Organization: Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
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- From what I have heard, elks = reindeer = caribou.
- Anyone else know the exact taxonomic relationship
- between these creatures.
-
- On the subject of antler, my sister gave me some
- very nicely cured deer antler, and one piece of
- what I can only surmise to be moose antler, due
- to it's shape and hardness. I carve as a hobby, and
- it is a real education learning how to deal with
- antler instead of wood. The deer is workable,
- the moose is next to impossible! VERY tough stuff.
- I use a Foredom tool, and find it hard. My respect
- for the people who carved this stuff twenty-odd
- thousand years ago increases with every piece
- I make. They didn't have power tools. Their hands
- must have been almost as hard as the antler :-)
-
- I can see how it would be perfect for certain knapping
- jobs. Wjile I'm on that subject, what stone readily
- available in Nova Scotia is good for making tools
- out of? Where can one get (mail-order??) good flint?
- I had some years ago, as a kid, but alas! it's long since
- gone.
-
- Julia Holland
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