[Bonetools] WBRG website updates August 2019

[Hans Christian Küchelmann]

Dear list,

for this months bonetool I chose a couple of Early Modern pocket sundials assembled by Alice Choyke, Ronald Salzer and me.
https://www.wbrg.net/bonetool-of-the-month-archives/

Sara Wingert, a student at University College Dublin writing a thesis on trick dice, pointed me towards a set of 24 false dice in the collection of the Museum of London. See here for more details:  
https://collections.museumoflondon.org.uk/online/object/41609.html <https://collections.museumoflondon.org.uk/online/object/41609.html>
https://medievallondon.ace.fordham.edu/collections/show/92 <https://medievallondon.ace.fordham.edu/collections/show/92>
https://medievallondon.ace.fordham.edu/items/show/278 <https://medievallondon.ace.fordham.edu/items/show/278>

Einar Einarsson from the Gallery Skák in Reykjavik sent me the attached article about a walrus ivory chess piece found 1895 in the Westfjords in Iceland.

References added to the database:

# Mannermaa, Kristiina / Gerasimov, Dimitri / Girya, Evgeny / Sablin, Mikhail V. (2019): Wild Boar (Sus scrofa) Teeth from a Female Burial in Yuzhniy Oleniy Ostrov, Northwestern Russia (c. 6200 cal BC) – Local Rarities or Transported Goods?. – Environmental Archaeology 24(1), 79-90

# Osipowicz, Grzegorz / Piliciauskas, Gytis / Piličiauskienė, Giedrė / Bosiak, Mariusz (2019): “Seal scrapers” from Šventoji – In search of their possible function. – Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 27

Another 12th century ivory chess piece has recently been found in the castle Tannenberg near Darmstadt, Germany
# Becker, Thomas (2019): Schach auf der Burg. – Archäologie in Deutschland 2/2019, 56

# Hermann, Michaela (2015): Mobile Zeitmessung im Jahr 1527. Eine Klappsonnenuhr, gefunden in Augsburg. – Denkmalpflege Informationen 161, 20-23 

# Kaltenberger, Alice (2003): Eine datierte Taschensonnenuhr von der Ruine Wildenstein bei Bad Ischl, Oberösterreich. – Beiträge zur Mittelalterarchäologie in Österreich Beiheft 6, 29-43

I recently found some older publications related to the German Ivory Museum in Erbach:
# Dinger, Brigitte (1994): Elfenbein - Kreativer mystischer Werkstoff. Einführung in die Geschichte der Elfenbeinkunst, Erbach

# Gaborit-Chopin, Danielle (1978): Elfenbeinkunst im Mittelalter, Berlin

# Hegemann, Hans-Werner (1988): Das Elfenbein in Kunst und Kultur Europas. Ein Überblick von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart, Mainz

# Theuerkauff, Christian (1986): Nachmittelalterliche Elfenbeine. Die Bildwerke in Elfenbein des 16.-19. Jahrhunderts, Berlin

Best wishes.

Christian
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