>> Smoke,
>
>>
>
>> There is not much literature out there
> on antler/bone/horn button production a
>nd occurrence and there is a lot of cont
>radiction in button type dating and purp
>orted production technique, but here are
> some general overviews and button studi
>es that you may or may not be aware of:
>
>>
>
>> Hinks, Stephen
>
>> 1995 A Structural and Functional Analy
>sis of Eighteenth Century Buttons. Volum
>es in
>
>> Historical Archaeology 32. South Carol
>ina Institute of Archaeology and Anthrop
>ology,
>
>> The University of South Carolina, Colu
>mbia.
>
>> Hunt, William J.
>
>> 1986 Fort Union Trading Post National
>Historic Site (32WI17), Material Culture
> Reports,
>
>> Part V: Buttons as Closures, Buttons a
>s Decoration: A Nineteenth Century Examp
>le from
>
>> Fort Union. US Dept of the Interior, N
>ational Park Service Midwest Archeologic
>al Center,
>
>> Lincoln, NE.
>
>> Klippel Walter E. and Gerald Schroedl
>
>> 1999 African Slave Craftsmen and Singl
>e-hole Bone Discs from Brimstone Hill, S
>t.
>
>> Kitts, West Indies. Post-Medieval Arch
>aeology 33:222-232.
>
>> MacGregor, Arthur
>
>> 1985 Bone, Antler, Ivory, & Horn: The
>Technology of Skeletal Materials Since t
>he
>
>> Roman Period. Croom Helm Publishing, L
>ondon; and Barnes and Noble Books,
>
>> Totowa.
>
>> Mercer, Henry C.
>
>> 1975 Ancient Carpenters' Tools: Togeth
>er with Lumbermen's, Joiners', and Cabin
>et
>
>> Makers' Tools in Use in the Eighteenth
> Century, Fifth Edition. Horizon Press,
>Bucks
>
>> County Historical Society.
>
>> Olsen, Stanley J.
>
>> 1963 Dating Early Plain Buttons and Th
>eir Form. American Antiquity 28: 551-554
>.
>
>> Pool Juliann C.
>
>> 1986 An Overview of Nineteenth and
>Twentieth Century Buttons. Research Not
>es: Historic
>
>> Sites and Materials, Nmmber 1. Texas P
>arks and Wildlife Department, Austin.
>
>> South, Stanley
>
>> 1964 Analysis of the Buttons from Brun
>swick Town and Fort Fisher. The Florida
>
>> Anthropologist 18(2): 113-133.
>
>>
>
>>
>
>> In York (SHA Conference 2005), I prese
>nted a paper on the variability of utili
>tarian (plain) bone button form and manu
>facture in North America. The research
>was based upon archival data as well as
>the examination of varied assemblages fr
>om miltary forts and trading posts in th
>e Northern Plains and homesteads and pla
>ntations of the Southern Appalachians. M
>y view is that the classification scheme
> for bone buttons is too simplistic and
>as a result uninformative. It should be
> based more on production technologies r
>ather than primarily button-hole number
>and diameter. This type of examination
>can in turn lead to a tighter button pro
>duction chronology than the one now in p
>lace. I'm currently putting together an
> article on this research.
>
>>
>
>> If you are interested in a pdf version
> of the SHA paper text and images from t
>he powerpoint presentation, let me know.
>
>
>>
>
>> Paul M. Matchen, M.A., R.P.A.
>
>> Staff Archaeologist/Principal Investig
>ator
>
>> TRC Environmental
>
>> 505 East Huntland Drive
>
>> Suite 250
>
>> Austin, TX 78752
>
>> phone: (512) 684-3147
>
>> fax: (512)329-8750
>
>>
>
>>
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>
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>> Subject: Organic Button request for In
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>
>>
>
>>
>
>> Can anyone direct me sources of inform
>ation on the archaeological
>
>> and/or historical occurrence of Antler
>, Horn, or Bone buttons? I have
>
>> a short two page biblio on buttons pas
>sed out by Virgil Noble on the
>
>> list a couple of years ago but there i
>s no specific mention of these
>
>> kinds of buttons in the titles.
>
>>
>
>> Thanks in advance.
>
>>
>
>> Smoke Pfeiffer
>
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>
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> to Psychoanalysis---
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