[Bonetools] WBRG website updates October 2020

[Hans Christian Küchelmann]

Dear Liye,

thank you very much for sending your papers and references. I will add them to the WBRG reference database with the next monthly website updates in the beginning of November. Very interesting papers by the way.

Best wishes.

Christian
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> Am 05.10.2020 um 20:47 schrieb Liye Xie <liye.xie at utoronto.ca>:
> 
> 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 <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 <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 Hemuduscapular 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 <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.
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> 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.
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> 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. 
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> 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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