[Bonetools] WBRG-Website Updates February 2019

[Grzegorz.Osipowicz at umk.pl]

Dear WBRG members, I would like to inform that we have just published  
a new article about one of the oldest bone mining tools in Europe  
entitled: The oldest osseous mining tools in Europe? New discoveries  
from the chocolate flint mine in Orońsko, site 2 (southern Poland). If  
You are interested to read it You can find it here:

DOI: 10.1016/j.quaint.2019.02.005

or just ask me for a copy

with my best regards

Grzegorz


Cytowanie Knochenarbeit <info at knochenarbeit.de>:

> Dear list members,
>
> this month’s bonetool is the mystery artefact Marta Blasco Martín  
> sent to the BONETOOLS-list in November 2017, an object made out of a  
> vulture ulna diaphysis provided with a rivet at one of its ends. It  
> is still not clear what the purpose of this object was and Marta  
> still would be glad about any ideas and suggestions. If anybody has  
> any contributions or comparative items, please contact her at  
> marta.blasco.martin at gmail.com.
>
> Marina Kovac’s review about the 12th WBRG-meeting in Granada in the  
> Croatian journal Obajivesti Hrvatskog Arheoloskog Drustva is now  
> referenced on the Grenada meeting page:
> https://www.wbrg.net/meetings/12th-meeting-granada-2017/
>
>
> New references:
>
> # Blasco Martin, Marta / Gallello, Gianni / Soria-Combadiera, Lucia  
> / Collado Mataix, Eva / Pastor, Agustín / Mata Parreño, Consuelo  
> (2019): Decoration composition of Iberian Iron Age ivory artifacts  
> identified by no-destructive chemical analyses. – Archaeological and  
> Anthropological Sciences, 1-16
> online: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12520-018-00775-3
>
> Shaw Badenhorst offered to upload his 2009 paper on African leather  
> processing to the WBRG page which is nor available for download at  
> the ethnography page.
> # Badenhorst, Shaw (2009): An ethnographic and historical overview  
> of hide processing in southern Africa. - Annals of the Transvaal  
> Museum 46, 37-43
> https://www.wbrg.net/ethnography/
> download:  
> https://www.wbrg.net/wp-content/uploads/Ref_Badenhorst_2009_leather_processing.pdf
>
> My colleague Natascha Mehler forwarded me an amazing article about  
> the history of domino games, many of which were made of bone or ivory:
> #  Braun, Ingram (2010): Die Kenntnis des Dominospiels in Europa:  
> Archäologie, Geschichte, Bibliographie. – Board Game Studies Journal  
> 10, 61-100
> download: https://content.sciendo.com/view/journals/bgs/10/1/article-p61.xml
>
> An interesting find of parts of an ivory decorated medieval saddle  
> has been made in Vienna:
> #  Tarcsay, Kinga (2018): „Reiten auf Elfenbein“: Ein  
> mittelalterlicher Prunksattel aus Wien, online-publication, Wien
> online: https://stadtarchaeologie.at/start/funde/focus/sattel_herrengasse/
>
> Best wishes to all of you.
>
> Christian
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>
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-- 
Dr hab. Grzegorz Osipowicz
Instytut Archeologii
Uniwersytet Mikołaja Kopernika
ul Szosa Bydgoska 44/48
87-100 Toruń

Dr hab. Grzegorz Osipowicz
Institute of Archaeology
Nicolaus Copernicus University
Szosa Bydgoska 44/48 Street
87-100 Torun
Poland