[Bonetools] WBRG website Updates December 2020

Fri Dec 4 19:04:00 CET 2020

Dear worked bone list,

this week I received a request by Walter Ahmet of the British Museum Portable Antiquities Scheme for a rather unusual object found as a stray find in the river Thames in Kent. Walter kindly asks if anybody within the WBRG may have an idea about function, dating, comparative items or any other suggestions or information that may help to identify the artefact.
His request is forwarded below. The object can be viewed here: https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/857932 <https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/857932>

Selena Vitezović kindly provided a blog entry about Starčevo spoons for this months bonetool. See here for more information:
https://www.wbrg.net/bonetool-of-the-month-archives/

The deadline for abstract submissions for the 14th Worked Bone Research Group meeting in Johannesburg has been extended to 31 January 2021. The page for the meeting has been updated accordingly (https://www.wbrg.net/meetings/14th-meeting-johannesburg-2021 <https://www.wbrg.net/meetings/14th-meeting-johannesburg-2021>). Please submit your abstracts to Justin Bradfield at wbrg2021 at uj.ac.za.

The impressum and supporter page has been updated as well (https://www.wbrg.net/impressum).

References added to the database:

# Antonovic, Dragana / Vitezović, Selena / Šarić, J. (2019): The Early Neolithic settlement at Velesnica. in: Filipović, V. / Bulatovic, Jelena B. / Kapuran, A. (eds.): Papers in Honour of Rastko Vasić 80th Birthday, 63-70, Beograd

# Bischop, Dieter (2020): Geweihhacke aus dem Wesersand. in: Schweisfurth, Anne & Weber, Rainer (eds.): Raum für Vermutungen – Vom Finden und Erfinden – Von Literatur und Archäologie, 34, 37, Bremen

# Camps-Fabrer, Henriette (1993): Éléments récepteurs, Fiches typologiques de l'industrie osseuse prehistorique VI, Aix en Provence

# Mannermaa, Kristiina (2008): Birds and burials at Ajvide (Gotland, Sweden) and Zvejnieki (Latvia) about 8000–3900 BP. – Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 27(2), 201-225

# Mannermaa, Kristiina & Rainio, Riitta (2020): Needle case, sound instrument or something else? A worked and ornamented swan (Cygnus sp.) ulna from a Late Mesolithic male burial, Yuzhniy Oleniy Ostrov, Northwest Russia. – Quaternary International 543, 34-42

# Mehler, Natascha (2007): Viking age and medieval craft in Iceland: Adaptation to extraordinary living conditions on the edge of the Old World. in: Klápste, Jan & Sommer, Petr (eds.): Arts and Crafts in Medieval Rural Environment, Ruralia, 227-244, Turnhout

# Nandris, J. G. (1972): Bos primigenius and the bone spoon. – Bulletin of the Institute of Archaeology 10, 63-82  

# Nandris, J. G. & Camps-Fabrer, Henriette (1993): Fiche cuillers à base en V du FTN. in: Camps-Fabrer, Henriette (ed.): Éléments récepteurs, Fiches typologiques de l'industrie osseuse prehistorique, 153-162, Aix en Provence

# Rainio, Riitta & Mannermaa, Kristiina (2014): Bird calls from a Middle Neolithic burial at Ajvide, Gotland? Interpreting tubular bird bone artefacts by means of use-wear, sound analysis, and ethnographic analogy. in: Ikäheimo, Janne P. / Salmi, Anna-Kaisa / Äikäs, Tiina (eds.): Sounds like theory. XII Nordic theoretical archaeology group meeting in Oulu 25.–28.4.2012, 85-100, Oulu
 >> download: http://www.sarks.fi/masf/masf_2/SLT_06_Rainio_Mannermaa.pdf <http://www.sarks.fi/masf/masf_2/SLT_06_Rainio_Mannermaa.pdf>

# Russell, Nerissa (2006): Çatalhöyük worked bone. in: Hodder, Ian (ed.): Çatalhöyük perspectives: reports from the 1995–99 seasons, 339-367, Ankara

# Russell, Nerissa (2012): Worked bone from the BACH area. in: Tringham, Ruth & Stevanović, Mirjana (eds.): BACH Area Reports from Çatalhöyük 347-359, Los Angeles

# Stemm, Greg / Gerth, Ellen / Flow, Jenette / Guerra-Librero, Claudio Lozano / Kingsley, Sean (2013): The Deep-Sea Tortugas Shipwreck, Florida: A Spanish-Operated Navio of the 1622 Tierra Firme Fleet. Part 2, the Artifacts. in: Stemm, Greg & Kingsley, Sean (eds.): Oceans Odyssey 3. The Deep-Sea Tortugas Shipwreck, Straits of Florida: A Merchant Vessel from Spain's 1622 Tierra Firme Fleet, Odyssey Marine Exploration Reports, 55-121, Oxford

# Vitezović, Selena (2016): Bos and the bone spoon revisited: Spatula-spoons in the Starčevo culture. in: Bacvarov, Krum & Gleser, Ralf (eds.): Southeast Europe and Anatolia in prehistory. Essays in honor of Vassil Nikolov on his 65th anniversary, Universitätsforschungen zur prähistorischen Archäologie, 189-196, Bonn

Best wishes to all of you and stay healthy.

Christian
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> Anfang der weitergeleiteten Nachricht:
> 
> Von: <Jo.Ahmet at kent.gov.uk>
> Betreff: mystery bone segment with inscribed seahorse
> Datum: 30. November 2020 um 15:06:54 MEZ
> An: <info at knochenarbeit.de>
> 
> Dear Christian Küchelmann.
>  
> My name is Walter (Jo) Ahmet and I am currently working with the British Museum Portable Antiquities Scheme as the Kent Finds Liaison Officer. A few years back the object recorded here <https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/857932> was reported to us from the river Thames. I’m not happy with the ID as it is quite uncertain. I was wondering if your learned group may be able to help?
>  
> Kind Regards
>  
> Walter (Jo) Ahmet 
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