Excerpts and reviews from the book are here. Enter your email address to follow this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email. An endlessly fascinating and beautifully written collection.” – Wendy Pratt, author of Gifts the Mole Gave Me, “Newgrange”: on the great Irish monument, older than Stonehenge & the pyramids, https://wordandsilence.files.wordpress.com/2018/06/newgrange.mp3, The Sun Sets into the Sea: on the ancient belief in many cultures that the sun did just that, https://wordandsilence.files.wordpress.com/2018/06/the-sun-sets-into-the-sea.mp3. -----Tim Miller’s excellent Bone Antler Stone is a book of poems about prehistoric Northern Europe. Am I biased? from $275. A video reading is also below: the great prehistoric painted caves of France & Spain, Click to email this to a friend (Opens in new window), Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window), Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window), Click to share on Pinterest (Opens in new window), Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window), The Island, the Museum, the Church: 3 Readings from “Bone Antler Stone”, Wordsworth’s 1805 Prelude, Book 8: “A weight of ages did at once descend upon my heart”, Bone Antler Stone by Tim Miller: Book Review – Kathryn (Kate) MacDonald, Young Krishna & the Universe in His Mouth, The Great Myths #49: Odin Sacrifices Himself (Norse), "All I know is a door into the dark": 2 Poems by Seamus Heaney, Reading 3 new poems: The Harvest of 1665, The Historian, Mr Cassian’s 54th Dream. Walnut, Antler, & Yellow Gold Pinstripes. Some bone and antler objects. Giuseppina Mutri. mutripg [at] gmail.com. Bone Antler Stone is dutifully constructed around the linear passage of time, 30 or more thousand years of it; covering the upper Paleolithic, through the stone age, bronze & into the early centuries of the 1st millennium. Available through your local bookstore or online: Bone Antler Stone. Quick view. A number of different types of bone and antler artefacts have been found at Star Carr. Wood, antler and bone processing in the Stone Age in the southern part of the Far East Author Kononenko N.A. Likewise, techniques of various types of line-internal rhyme and alliteration work together to create songlike qualities, a sense of unfolding inevitability and history echoing still now… I could examine and explore each poem in similar almost forensic, archaeological tagging detail and still return to find new aspects to awe me. It would not stay round because one end was from near the base where the antler is much more dense. “… [Bone Antler Stone] is an act of powerful sympathetic imagination that forges a connection between lost cultures […]. An endlessly fascinating and beautifully written collection.” – Wendy Pratt, author of, on the great Irish monument, older than Stonehenge & the pyramids. “Our prehistory now has its poet laureate.” The poems are full to the brim with life, reimagining and rebirthing the lost years our own prehistory, dug from the earth like lost truths. The most famous are the headdresses which we will come to soon, but there are also mattocks and hammers made of elk antler, bone bodkins (a blunt needle), scraping tools made out of aurochs (wild cow) bones, worked red deer tines (broken off antlers), a bird bone made into a bead, a spoon-like object made out of elk antler and a possible red deer antler … For me, Bone Antler Stone isn’t just a beautifully crafted, fascinating and addictive collection, it’s also a timely reminder that past history is never just the past’s.” – S.A. Leavesley, Riggwelter (Read the entire review here), “… [Bone Antler Stone] is an act of powerful sympathetic imagination that forges a connection between lost cultures and our own and that reminds us of our commonality as a species…. There are cave paintings – as they’re being painted. Read 2 reviews from the world's largest community for readers. But Tim Miller’s poetry wears its learning well enough to draw in a non specialist reader. But in skillfully wrought poetry such prehistoric elements can still offer points of connection and food for thought…. You can order the entire collection here, or find more poems from the book here.. A video reading is also below: https://wordandsilence.files.wordpress.com/2018/06/st-magnus-cathedral.mp3. Functional Differences between Stone-tipped and Bone-and Antler-tipped ArrowsAntler and bone points do have some advantages over stone points. Originally posted on Kathryn (Kate) MacDonald : Tim Miller collapses 30,000 years of archaeology into a poetry collection that feels the thrill of immediate experience. Member of EXARC since. But Tim Miller’s poetry wears its learning well enough to draw in a non specialist reader. The material is readily available, and although bone and antler points take longer to make, they are more durable than stone points, which easily shatter (Bergman 1987;Guthrie 1983). Paperback, 92 pp. Stone, Bone, Antler, and Shell book. Listen to an interview with NPR on Bone Antler Stone, “Our prehistory now has its poet laureate. Probably. Poetic care and crafting is evident in many ways throughout the collection…. Feb 27, 2021 - Explore Heather English's board "Carving: Antler, Bone", followed by 562 people on Pinterest. Achetez neuf ou d'occasion Back to top of main content Go back to top of page. Year 1988 Publication Type Book Chapter Publisher Dalnauka Book Title Technology of Ancient Industries in the Far East Number of pages 26-32 Publisher Dalnauka Place Published Vladivostok Language en. I am a lithic specialist and I work with technology, use wear and residues analysis in stone tools and dental calculus. There are cave paintings – as they’re being painted. Buy used: The poems generally are fuelled by the flames of storytelling, with violent truths set alongside more positive elements of life… Reading these poems isn’t simply an act of second-hand witnessing, it’s an act of experiencing. a hammerstone) and a soft hammer fabricator (wood, bone, or antler), to detach “lithic US readers can order copies directly from me here: UK and worldwide readers, order directly from The High Window Press here. In “Chauvet, Lascaux, Altamira” (France and Spain, 35,000 – 12,000 BC), Miller writes:…, If forced to choose a favorite short poem of mine, one that brings together nearly everything I’m interested in, it would have to be this one: Fire Houses All the old stories have their fire houses: hostels, banqueting halls, stopping places, some leading to the Otherworld, some made of iron, and all of them set […], The Sun Sets into the Sea The sun sets into the sea with a hiss and rises with the sound of a driven wheel, the creak of speaking stone, metal and wood.