[Bonetools] WBRG website updates October 2020

Mon Oct 5 20:47:34 CEST 2020

Dear Christian,

Thank you very much for keeping us updated on publications! The website is very useful!

If it’s appropriate, would you consider adding any of my three publications to the list?

Xie, Liye, 2018, Scapulae for shovels: does raw material choice reflect accessibility and technical ease? Journal of Archaeological Science 97:77-89. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0305440318303431

Xie, Liye & Mary Stiner, 2018, Raw material preferences for scapular tools: evaluating water buffalo age bias in the Early Hemudu Culture, China. International Journal of Osteoarchaeology 28(6):645–655. https://doi.org/10.1002/oa.2677
Xie, Liye, Xuejiao Lu, Guoping Sun, and Weijin Huang. 2017. Functionality and morphology: Identifying si agricultural tools from among the Hemudu scapular implements in Eastern China. Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory 24:377-423. DOI 10.1007/s10816-015-9271-x. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10816-015-9271-x

I noticed that the Xie et al. 2017 paper has been listed in the Experiments section under “agricultural tools” (although the publication year and pages need to be updated). I appreciate you including this article. This article could also be labeled as micro-wear analysis on bone tools.

Below are short instructions of the other two publications. I also attached the PDF documents of the two articles for your references.

Xie 2018 reconstructs the manufacturing procedure of the early Hemudu bone earthworking implements through replication experiments, and accordingly assesses the costs of tool production within their behavioral contexts. The results revealed that the costs and benefits of technological choices were not equally perceivable to the decision makers; the Hemudu tool producers made their technological choices based on easy-to-perceive advantages rather than comprehensive cost-benefit assessment. This research breaks the traditional academic boundaries between stone and bone artefacts, providing an exceptional archaeological case study in which the production patterns, tool kits, raw material availability, technical styles, and social traditions were all taken into consideration for a more complete picture of technological organization and choices in prehistory.

Xie and Stiner 2018 developed new approaches to identify animal age structure based on skeletal elements that normally would not be considered for distinguishing among adult age classes. The results show that Neolithic communities were highly selective about bone raw materials even when the preferred materials—those from older adult animals—were less commonly available to tool makers. Our data also demonstrate that the approaches developed in this research for reconstructing animal mortality patterns using water buffalo scapulae are applicable to other ungulate scapulae that have been transformed into tools or oracle bones in prehistoric and historic cultures.

Thank you for your consideration. And thanks again for your time and effort in keeping the research group updated and connected.

I hope all of your projects are going well.

Best,

-Liye

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Dear bonetool lists,

this months bonetool is a bullroarer from South Africa, experimental work on which has recently been published by Kumbani et al. See here for more infos:
https://www.wbrg.net/bonetool-of-the-month-archives/

References added to the database:

# Auler, Jost (1993): Zur Nachbildung und Funktion bronzezeitlicher Tüllenharpunen - Ein Beitrag zur experimentellen Archäologie. – Archäologisches Korrespondenzblatt 23, 197-206

# Bächler, E. (1928): Die ältesten Knochenwerkzeuge, insbesondere des alpinen Paläolithikums. – Jahrbuch der Schweizerischen Gesellschaft für Ur- und Frühgeschichte 20, 124-149

# Bayer, Josef (1930): Hat das Hochgebirgspaläolithikum der Schweiz Knochenwerkzeuge geliefert?, Eiszeit und Urgeschichte 7

# Bleuer, E. & Dubuis, B. (1988): Die Knochen- und Geweihartefakte und die ergänzte Keramik, Seeberg-Burgäschisee-Süd 7, Bern

# Christophersen, A. (1980): Raw material, resources and production capacity in Early Medieval comb manufacture in Lund. – Meddelanden från Lunds Universitets Historiska Museum, new series 3, 150-165

# Clason, Anneke T. (1980): Worked Bone and Antler Objects from Dorestad, Hoogstraat I. in: van Es, W. A. & Verwers, W. J. H. (eds.): Excavations at Dorestad 1, The Harbour: Hoogstraat I, Nederlandse Oudheden, 238-247, Amersfoort

# Deringer, Hans (1967): Frühgeschichtliche Knochenkämme aus Oberösterreich. – Jahrbuch des Oberösterreichischen Musealvereins 112, 35-56

# Deringer, Hans (1967): Provinzialrömische und germanische Knochenkämme aus Lauriacum. – Jahrbuch des Oberösterreichischen Musealvereins 112, 57-74

# Fingerlin, G. (1981): Eberzahnanhänger aus Dangstetten. – Fundberichte aus Baden-Württemberg 6, 417ff

# Kerr, Rose & Allen, Phillip (2016): Chinese Ivory Carvings

# Kratochvil, Zdenek & Sterba, O. (1970): Osteologische Analyse der heimischen Knochenindustrie aus Miculcice und Pohansko. – Archéologické Rozhlédy 22, 447-470

# Loze, Ilze (1980): Spätmesolithikum und Frühneolithikum in Lettland. – Veröffentlichungen des Museums für Ur- und Frühgeschichte Potsdam 14/15, 183-190

# Robinson, John T. (1959): A Bone Implement from Sterkfontein. – Nature 184, 583-585

# Schmid, Elisabeth (1989): Die altsteinzeitliche Elfenbeinstatuette aus der Höhle Stadel im Hohlenstein bei Asselfingen, Alb-Donau-Kreis. – Fundberichte aus Baden-Württemberg 14, 33-96

# Spindler, Konrad (1980): Zur Elfenbeinscheibe aus dem hallstattzeitlichen Fürstengrab von Grafenbühl. – Archäologisches Korrespondenzblatt 10, 239-248

# Suter, Peter J. (1981): Die Hirschgeweihartefakte der Cortailloidschichten, Die neolithischen Ufersiedlungen von Twann 15, Bern

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

# Tromnau, Gernot (1980): Präborealzeitliche Fundplätze im norddeutschen Flachland. – Veröffentlichungen des Museums für Ur- und Frühgeschichte Potsdam 14/15, 67-71

# von Brand, Andres (1975): Das große Buch vom Fischfang - international, Frankfurt / Main

# Wahl, Joachim & Planck, Dieter (1989): Ein menschliches Kalottenbruchstück als Schöpf- oder Grabgerät. – Fundberichte aus Baden-Württemberg 14, 373-385

# Zagorska, Ilga (1980): Das Frühmesolithikum in Lettland. – Veröffentlichungen des Museums für Ur- und Frühgeschichte Potsdam 14/15, 73-82

Best wishes.

Christian
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