Workshop scraping seal skins

On the 22 nd of October 2022 we hosted a hide-working workshop for the volunteers of Masamuda. The workshop was aimed to gain insight into hide-working traces on Vlaardingen Culture (VLC) scrapers. On the VLC site of Hekelingen III several scrapers were found with hide working traces which potential...

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Main Author: Dikkenberg, L. van den
Format: Text
Language:English
Published: 2022
Subjects:
Experimental Archaeology
Use-Wear Analysis
Micro-Wear Analysis
Vlaardingen Culture
Neolithic
Flint
Phoca vitulina
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/1887/3505053
https://www.puttinglife.com/blog/workshop-scraping-seal-skins/
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Summary:On the 22 nd of October 2022 we hosted a hide-working workshop for the volunteers of Masamuda. The workshop was aimed to gain insight into hide-working traces on Vlaardingen Culture (VLC) scrapers. On the VLC site of Hekelingen III several scrapers were found with hide working traces which potentially could be linked to the scraping of fatty hides with the use of additives (Van Gijn 1990). To test this hypothesis, we scraped two sealskins with flint scrapers using additives. One hide was scraped with sand while the other was scraped with dried clay. The sealskins were donated to the project by Zeehondencentrum Pieterburen, a seal rescue center. These skins belonged to weaners, common seals ( Phoca vitulina ), who died of pneumonia, the skins were removed during the autopsy. We chose to use sealskins because these are notoriously fat and because seal bones were found both in Hekelingen III and in Vlaardingen (Brinkkemper et al. 2010). NWO AIB.19.020 European Prehistory

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