Crafting Bones: Morphological and Use-Wear Analysis of Bone Pins from a St. Johns II Mississippian Mound Complex
- stacygreenwood
- Oct 19
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Speaker: Alex Diaz, PhD Candidate, University of Wyoming
Abstract: Bone has been used as a medium for crafting both tools and decorative items since our earliest ancestors. This analysis focuses on the bone pin assemblage (n=169) from a special event midden, Kinzey's Knoll, at the Mill Cove Complex, a Mississippian-period mound center located in Jacksonville, Florida.
Bio: Alex Diaz is a second-year PhD student at the University of Wyoming and a North American archaeologist. His broad interests include pre-contact American archaeology, hunter-gatherer societies, and the relationships between past humans and their environments, particularly the interactions between humans and animals.
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