Yearling bulls usually have spike antlers, and two-year-olds often have four or five tines on each antler. |
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Bone and antler were used to make dress-pins, hair combs, toggles, needle-cases, handles for iron knives, awls and other domestic equipment. |
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There is a stuffed deer in the Nature House at the Nature Park, a small buck with two points on each antler. |
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Several of the arrows still retained sinew ties in association with fletching or hafting of the antler arrow points, or both. |
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Greenwell discovered numerous antler picks scattered throughout the mine as well as the ground stone axe made of greenstone from Cornwall. |
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Then there's the period of antler shedding, and the months they're in velvet. |
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The collection of deer antler velvet is reportedly quite cruel by western standards. |
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One of those bucks would have to have an inside spread, as measured by the greatest length between main antler beams, of at least 13 inches. |
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This tie is done on a prairie find sun-bleached mule deer shed antler burr. I augmented the color of the burr with my own dye technique. |
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Today all these figures are carved in wood, but materials such as bone, tusk, soapstone and reindeer antler are not commonly used. |
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The spear that was thrown 42m had a light antler head and was thrown with the aid of a spear thrower. |
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In all cases, they consist of a single tine removed from a palmate section of an antler beam. |
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If you are lucky enough to live on the outskirts of a forest, there is a great chance that you will spy an antler or two, usually at dusk. |
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Nevertheless, many private landowners maintain feeders and dole out mineral supplements to retain the deer and buttress antler growth. |
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They made entirely new types of tools, like spear throwers, antler straighteners, backed points, burins, shoulder points and borers. |
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Here's a closeup of Mike now that his velvet has vanished, showing the injury on his right brow antler. |
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It occurs in all musical forms, from the first antler beaten against a taut animal skin to the most ornate symphony. |
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Teeth from a woolly rhino were also found, with a reindeer antler and a deer bone that had been split to extract the marrow. |
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For the most part, East Tennessee deer are rather runtish, particularly in the antler department. |
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The cervina type had the smallest and the palmated the largest carcass weight, antler spread and tine numbers. |
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The toughness of antler makes it ideal for making the handles to knives and other tools. |
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This type is characterized by a square cross section and an offset shaft that served to seat the awl in a bone or antler handle. |
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I spotted the splayed hoofprint of a moose on the side of the trail on my last hike, but have yet to come eye to antler with one. |
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Animals must be screened before harvest for signs of disease and injury that may create hazards for the consumer of the harvested antler. |
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Pewter was used to make cheap jewellery and was cast in moulds made from antler, engraved Roman tiles and clay, although stamped pewter jewellery was also made. |
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There was nothing found to indicate that a moose antler, externalload, proving flight had ever been accomplished. |
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But hGH is peculiar among PEDs in that, similar to deer antler spray, there is no evidence it helps athletic performance. |
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Flutes are made from a variety of materials, including wood, cane, clay, antler and bone. |
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Most are Level l cultural resources made of metal, stone, ceramic, glass, bone, and antler. |
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Do not touch the cut surface or allow antler surfaces to touch the cut area. |
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The antler tines may have been used as pressure flakers on stone projectile points and knives, although there was no evidence of microdebitage imbedded in the damaged tips. |
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Either the child was buried at the same time the elk antler tools were made or 400 years later. |
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They had to infect the perfectly adequate data with the totally improbable idea of a 400-year-old heirloom elk antler tool. |
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I also inlay different materials such as caribou antler or different coloured stone for faces or other details like tools. |
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The use of velvet antler in supplements for people and pets is a growing local market while the export market for meat is expanding. |
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The male Irish elk, for example, developed a five-metre antler span just to impress the ladies shortly before the species went extinct. |
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The animal's skull must be wrapped and antler tips must be properly protected. |
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The huge antler spikes were within a few yards of her, and in a flash of numbing fear she remembered Mortimer's warning, to beware of horned beasts on the farm. |
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The game farm industry has attempted to, I understand, open up new markets in China for antler velvet, but that has not been successful to date. |
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The lateral presentation of the antler palm between male fallow deer has been described as either a signal of individual quality or an attempt to avoid fighting. |
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Flakes with concavities exhibiting steep, unifacial retouch were used to whittle or plane wood, and flakes displaying spurs were used to incise bone or antler. |
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Then he returns to his cabin and hangs up his hat on the antler of a stuffed buck. |
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Malleable metal had several advantages over a brittle material, such as rock or bone or antler. |
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Which word can mean a raceme of flowers, a young deer antler, and a sharp metal object? |
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My guess is that it allows them additional antler coverage and helps them deposit more preorbital and saliva-borne scent over a greater area. |
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The find also includes stone scrapers, fleshers and several pieces of antler apparently sharpened for use as tools. |
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Extending over the left side of the figure is a flowstone deposit which extends across part of the animal's muzzle and antler set. |
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The pedicel gives rise to a spiky antler the following year, that is replaced by a branched antler in the third year. |
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Among the Inuit, the traditional ulu women's knife was made with an antler, horn, or ivory handle. |
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When the antler growth is fully grown and hardened, the velvet is shed or rubbed off. |
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As the antler grows it is covered in thick velvet, filled with blood vessels and spongy in texture. |
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The beneficial effects of QEVA could be associated, in part with the anti-inflammatory action of pilose antler peptide and with the action of pantocrin. |
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This scrapper or qisukaut is made out of the tip of a bull caribou antler. |
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I got hold of an antler and got my pocket knife out to stab it through the back of the neck and the caribou tried to strike at me because its hind legs were still free. |
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The brow tine is unbranched, except in Pére David's deer, in which both it and the beam are branched, the brow tine forming the dominant part of the antler. |
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These projects will provide enhanced quality assurances and increased marketability for our antler and meat products to consumers in Canada and in international markets. |
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This bow is made of antler, spliced together with metal and fibre. |
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The auriferous gossans and exposed parts of friable veins were simply grubbed out, gophered, trenched, or pitted along their strike length with the crudest of tools-stone hammers, antler picks, and bone and wooden shovels. |
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The side view shape and the pommel shape of K axes and deer antler axes confirm connections to the Altheimer group even before the SOM culture in the Paris basin. |
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Goggles were also made from ivory or caribou antler. |
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It has a steel blade and a handle made of caribou antler. |
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What is not widely known is that in the wild, the male deer sheds antler each year, and in this respect the harvesting of velvet antler is merely the modification of a natural event. |
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In the deer family, antler size means dominance. |
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Bone, antler, ivory and baleen can be cleaned and slow air-dried. |
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Velvet antler is soft growing antler tissue, which is cast off and re-grown every year. |
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I had been easing along the edge of the rimrock, peering over it, trying to catch sight of velvet antler tips. |
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It produced more refined flint tools but also made use of bone, antler, shell, amber, animal teeth, and mammoth ivory. |
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When this house was excavated, fragments of stone, bone and antler were found. |
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A new possibility for the inspiration of the unicorn came in 2008 with the discovery of a roe deer in Italy with a single antler. |
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In the Wilton Diptych, Richard's own badge has pearls on the antler tips, which the angels' badges lack. |
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In recent times deer antler home decors can be found in home styling magazines. |
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Their materials were mainly wood, with bone, antler and flint for functions requiring harder surfaces. |
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Dog graves were prepared and gifted the same as human, with ochre, antler, and grave goods. |
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While an antler is growing, it is covered with highly vascular skin called velvet, which supplies oxygen and nutrients to the growing bone. |
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Once the antler has achieved its full size, the velvet is lost and the antler's bone dies. |
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There is evidence to support that antler size influences mate selection in the red deer, and has a heritable component. |
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Also, female antler size plateaus at the onset of puberty, around age three, while males antler size increases during their lifetime. |
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Dominant males, those with larger body size and antler racks, inseminate more than one doe a season. |
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Reindeer antler is powdered and sold as an aphrodisiac, nutritional or medicinal supplement to Asian markets. |
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Knapping was done using antler batons, hardwood batons and soft stone hammers. |
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Other swords have tanged blades and probably had a wood, bone, or antler hilt. |
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A hole is created in the tilled earth with a tobacco peg, either a curved wooden tool or deer antler. |
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The antler sheath was then either perforated and a handle inserted into it or set in a hole made in the handle instead. |
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If you've ever tried to cut or abrade deer antler, you're well aware it is one of the toughest organic materials you'll ever fool with. |
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Antlers are shed when a thin layer of tissue called the abscission layer disconnects the antler from the pedicle. |
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The animal residues found included possible blood residues, hair fragments, bone or antler fragments, and a feather barbule fragment. |
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After antlers are cast, the tissue around the pedicel begins to grow and heal over the wound left by losing the antler. |
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Palmitate, stearate, oleate, linoleate, and arachidonate were the predominant fatty acids of velvet antler in spotted deer. |
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I've already seen the yellow birch-snag blackened by fire, and I've spotted the small striped maple scarred by a moose's antler. |
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Burins and racloirs were used to work bone, antler and hides. |
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For others it's pinfeathers pressing through the skin, fingers hardening to hooves, a hat rising from your suddenly cooling scalp, speared on an antler. |
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Females in good nutritional condition, for example, during a mild winter with good winter range quality, may grow new antlers earlier as antler growth requires high intake. |
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If a pedicle is damaged during antler development, antler tines may grow around the base of the pedicle, similar to the sprouts around the base of a freshly cut tree stump. |
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Each antler grows from an attachment point on the skull called a pedicle. |
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Stone tools show regular patterns that are reproduced or duplicated with more precision while tools made of bone and antler appear for the first time. |
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The classic materials, with outstanding durability, are metal, especially bronze, stone and pottery, with wood, bone and antler less durable but cheaper options. |
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The Swimming Reindeer of about 11,000 BCE is among the finest Magdalenian carvings in bone or antler of animals in the art of the Upper Paleolithic. |
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The bones were considerably older than the antler picks used to dig the ditch, and the people who buried them had looked after them for some time prior to burial. |
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The antler was hollowed out at one end to create a socket for the axehead. |
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Cornell and Darby researched domestic and global markets, knowing there was a demand for velvet antler in Asia, and for breeding stock in the United States. |
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The popular ingredients include Glucosamine, Omega fatty acids, and Probiotics, along with trendier ingredients such as Bee pollen, Green tea, and elk velvet antler. |
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Most clothing appears to have been made of animal skins, as indicated by finds of large numbers of bone and antler pins which are ideal for fastening leather. |
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In the velvet antler stage, antlers of elk and deer have been used in Asia as a dietary supplement or alternative medicinal substance for more than 2,000 years. |
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