There is an additional site from the Carib area I cannot remember but 
also "History Written With Pick and Shovel " Calver & Bolton , for rape 
& destroy data. The report on the Anderson Blacksmith Shop  in Williams 
burg has a lot of button waste. This was ca. 1977 for the 1975-1976 
excavations where a room in the complex was used as a button shop. Off 
the top of my head I think Stan South's "Palmetto Parapets" has button 
material.

Many of these sites appear to have military connections. The Anderson 
shop served as the armorer for a time. I think the site in Phil along 
the river was also the site of a major Rev. War encampment complex.  I 
had a file on the subject but cannot find at the present.

Jim Parker

-----Original Message-----
From: Teagan Schweitzer <[log in to unmask]>
To: HISTARCH <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Tue, Aug 2, 2011 8:53 am
Subject: bone button production sites

Hi all,

I am a zooarchaeologist working with an assemblage from the early 19th
century in Philadelphia in which there is evidence of bone button 
production
- i.e. cow longbones with button blanks cut out of them. I am on the 
hunt
for other assemblages of a similar time period with evidence for button
production or other research you are aware of that addresses techniques 
for
button production around this time. Any help you can offer would be 
greatly
appreciated.

Thanks!

~ Teagan

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Dr. Teagan Schweitzer
Department of Anthropology
University of Pennsylvania