The Mechanical Properties of Marine and Terrestrial Skeletal Materials
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3024348 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Amy V Margaris (0000-0001-8917-5656, corresponding author), Amy Margaris |
| Year | 2009 |
| Volume | 1 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 163-184 |
| Publication date | 2009-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Ethnoarchaeology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1944-2890 • E-ISSN: 1944-2904 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1179/eth.2009.1.2.163 |
| OpenAlex | W2033499548 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 9 |
| References cited | 35 |
The innate, mechanical properties of tool raw materials place ultimate limits on how the materials can be worked and used, thus affecting most facets of tool use-lives. Prehistoric forager groups such as the Alutiiq of Alaska's Kodiak archipelago constructed tools not only from stone, but also from a range of skeletal materials whose mechanical properties are not well understood. Laboratory tests were carried out to determine the material stiffness, strength, and toughness (fracture resistance) of sea lion and cervid limb bone as they relate to better-studied antler. Sea lions are a semi-marine adapted species but their limb bone properties overlap those of elk and white-tailed deer. Elk bone is particularly strong and stiff; while antler's remarkable degree of toughness makes it the ideal choice for tools that require maximum fracture resistance, a pattern that is evident in protohistoric Alutiiq toolkits. Further tests are needed to refine our understanding of how the mechanical properties of osseous tissues vary within and between taxa and skeletal elements
Antler · Archipelago · Biology · Composite material · Fracture toughness · Mechanical resistance · Stiffness · Toughness · Cephalopods and Marine Biology · Marine animal studies overview · Materials Science · Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology · Ecology · Geology
Ancient canids of the Aleutian Islands (new archaeological discoveries from the Islands of Four Mountains)
The adoption of pottery on Kodiak Island
Pierced antlers in the Southern Cone
A comparison of minimally-invasive sampling techniques for ZooMS analysis of bone artifacts
Using bone fragmentation records to investigate coastal human ecodynamics
Reconsidering Raw Material Selection
Intensive subsistence practices at Vale Boi, an Upper Paleolithic site in southwestern Portugal
Circulation of whale-bone artifacts in the northern Pyrenees during the late Upper Paleolithic
The Mechanical Properties of Marine and Terrestrial Skeletal Materials
Bone, Antler, Ivory and Horn
The Mechanical Adaptations of Bones
The Evolution of Complex Hunter-Gatherers
Bones
Chemical, enzymatic and spectroscopic characterization of “collagen” and other organic fractions from prehistoric bones
Hunter-gatherer economy in prehistory
Vertebrate Taphonomy
“Unpacking” reduction
Settlement, raw material, and lithic procurement in the central Mojave Desert
Bone density and differential survivorship of fossil classes
Taphonomy of Animal Bones
Mechanical properties as conditioning factors in the bone and antler industry of the 3rd to the 13th century AD
The Tensile Strength of Archaeological Bone
The mechanical properties of bone materials in relation to the design and function of prehistoric tools from Tierra Del Fuego, Argentina
Structural Density Assays of Leporid Skeletal Elements with Implications for Taphonomic, Actualistic and Archaeological Research
Feeding the Russian Fur Trade
Hunter-Gatherer Adaptations, Economic Risk and Tool Design
Engendering archaeology
The Mechanical Properties of Marine and Terrestrial Skeletal Materials
Organization and Formation Processes
A Formal Approach to the Design and Assembly of Mobile Toolkits
Technological Efficiency and Tool Curation
Approaches to style in lithic archaeology
| Unique citing works | 9 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,53 |
| Citation span | 2009 - 2023 (15) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 8 |