A slippery business – Knochenarbeit – Archäozoologie, Taphonomie, Zooarchäologie, Knochenhandwerk

From the Bronze Age until the beginning of the 20th century metapodiae and radii of cattle and horses were used for ice skating in Europe. We wanted to know how this works and tried it. More about archaeological and historic bone skates can be obtained from the report, the Bone Skates Database and the Hurstwic Reenactment Group.