[Bonetools] WBRG website updates November 2021

Mon Nov 8 12:49:24 CET 2021

Hello Christian and Everybody,

This month’s bonetools are very well known, of course: they are bone raps from a site at Ely in Cambridgeshire. The object type has been very well discussed by Louisa Gidney: Bone artefacts from medieval and post-medieval windmills: changing interpretations, in S. Vitezović, Close to the Bone: Current Studies in Bone Technologies, Belgrade (Belgrade Institute of Archaeology) 2016, 128-132.

But I do have an unusual object to put forward instead! A very small pointed implement, just 18mm in length, from a Roman site in Cambridgeshire. The basal part includes accreted material, which has yet to be analysed. It means that the point was probably just 12mm in length. It has been cut from a midshaft, possibly of bird bone. It is the sort of object that may only emerge from sieving and I wonder if anybody has seen another one of this type and size?

Ian Riddler

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Subject: [Bonetools] WBRG website updates November 2021

Dear list members,

this month's bonetool are two medieval artefacts from the UK sent by Ian Riddler in 2018, the function of which is not clear. Suggestions and discussion in the list are welcome.
https://www.wbrg.net/bonetool-of-the-month-archives/

Meetings:
# The page for the Meeting Johannesburg has been updated after the meeting and the group screenshot added.
https://www.wbrg.net/14th-meeting-johannesburg-2021/

# A new page has been created for the recent workshop in Alicante.
https://www.wbrg.net/meetings/workshop-2021-alicante/

References added to the database:

# Barrett, J. H. (1969): A Fipple Flute or Pipe from the Site of Keynsham Abbey. – Galpin Society Journal 22, 47-50
 >>> DOI: https://doi.org/10.2307/841627

# Langley, Michelle C. (2016): Osseous Projectile Weaponry. Vertebrate Paleobiology and Paleoanthropology, Heidelberg

# Lawson, G. (1984): Flutes. in: Rogerson, A. & Dallas, C. (eds.): Excavations in Thetford 1948-59 and 1973-80, East Anglian Archaeology

# Leaf, Helen (2007): Medieval Bone Flutes in England. in: Pluskowski, Aleksander G. (ed.): Breaking and Shaping Beastly Bodies: Animals as Material Culture in the Middle Ages, Oxford

# Lieberman, Tehillah / Solomon, Avi / Uziel, Joe (2019): Rolling the Dice in Aelia Capitolina: On the Discovery of Gaming Pieces beneath Wilson’s Arch and Their Function within a Theatre-Like Structure. – Israel Exploration Journal 69(2), 220-240

# MacGregor, Arthur G. (2001): Objects of Bone, Antler and Ivory. in: Saunders, P. (ed.): Salisbury Museum Medieval Catalogue Part 3, 18-21, Salisbury

# Megaw, J. V. S. (1960): Penny Whistles and Prehistory. – Antiquity 5, 6-13
>>> DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0003598X00035109

# Megaw, J. Vincent S. (1963): A Medieval Bone Pipe from White Castle, Monmouthshire. – Galpin Society Journal 16, 85-93

# Tejero, José-Miguel / Rabinovich, Rivka / Yeshurun, Reuven / Abulafia, Talia / Bar-Yosef, Ofer / Barzilai, Omry / Goder-Goldberger, Mae / Hershkovitz, Israel / Lavi, Ron / Shemer, Maayan / Marder, Ofer / Belfer-Cohen, Anna (2020): Personal ornaments from Hayonim and Manot caves (Israel) hint to symbolic ties between the Levantine and the European Aurignacian. – Journal of Human Evolution
>>> DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhevol.2020.102870

# Tejero, José-Miguel / Arrizabalaga, Álvaro / Villaluenga, Aritza (2016): The Proto-Aurignacian and Early Aurignacian retouchers of Labeko Koba (Basque Country, Spain). A techno-economic and chrono-cultural interpretation using lithic and faunal data. – Comptes Rendus Palevol 15(8), 994-1010
>>> DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.crpv.2016.05.003

# Tejero, José-Miguel / Yeshurun, Reuven / Barzilai, Omry / Goder-Goldberger, Mae / Hershkovitz, Israel / Lavi, Ron / Schneller-Pels, Nehora / Marder, Ofer (2016): The osseous industry from Manot Cave (Western Galilee, Israel): Technical and conceptual behaviours of bone and antler exploitation in the Levantine Aurignacian. – Quaternary International 403, 90-106
>>> DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2015.11.028

# Tejero, José-Miguel (2016): Spanish Aurignacian Projectile Points: An Example of the First European Paleolithic Hunting Weapons in Osseous Materials. in: Langley, Michelle C. (ed.): Osseous Projectile Weaponry. Vertebrate Paleobiology and Paleoanthropology, 55-69, Heidelberg
>>> DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-024-0899-7_5<https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-94-024-0899-7_5>

Best wishes.

Christian
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