Dear HISTARCH,

I am trying to find any publications on soap making in the historic period, particularly anything dealing with faunal remains.  From my understanding, fats used in soap production would have been more likely to use subcutaneous fats like lard. I am trying to address an anonymous claim that bones would have been boiled for grease to make soap, but I am not familiar with such research.

Thanks, Adam Heinrich



> Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2013 06:31:10 -0500
> From: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: pdf of John Witthoft's Gunflint article
> To: [log in to unmask]
> 
> Dear Everyone,
> I know some of us have been hounding JV Beckum for the Witthoft paper from
> PA Archaeologist, In the meanwhile - see the below citation -  i think
> anyone interested in flint knapping and gunflints will find exceptional,
> and since it is critical may be worth reading by anyone considering reading
> the Witthoft paper, with all respects to Witthoft, whose individual
> contributions to archaeology are many. - Like Mead when she had that
> walking stick you could kill a horse with, we should be respectful of early
> research - 50 years of hindsight is an exponential differential.  How's
> that for a morning rhyme
> 
> this should be available through on-line library database search - i
> sourced through academia.com
> 
> Post-Medieval Archaeology 46/1 2012 - 116-142 - 'State of the Art' of
> British Gunflint Research with special focus on the early gunflint workshop
> at Dun Eistean, Lewis
> Sincerely,
> kev
> 
> 
> On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 12:21 PM, Jon Van Beckum <[log in to unmask]>wrote:
> 
> > Greetings everyone!
> >
> > Does anyone have a pdf of John Witthoft's 1966 "A History of Gunflints"
> > article from the Pennsylvania Archaeologist, 36: 12-49 that they could
> > share?   I would be greatly appreciated.
> >
> > Thank you!
> >
> > Jon Van Beckum
> >
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> 
> 
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> kevin m. donaghy
> graduate student
> Temple University
> Department of Anthropology