[Bonetools] WBRG website updates May 2022

[Hans Christian Küchelmann]

Dear colleagues,

as bone artefact for May I chose a set of tools for needlework:
https://www.wbrg.net/bonetool-of-the-month-archives/ <https://www.wbrg.net/bonetool-of-the-month-archives/>
Has anybody an idea for what kind of technique these might have been used for?

The WBRG member survey kindly provided by Christian Gates St-Pierre, Stephen Rhodes, Bev Thurber and Markus Wild is now accessible also via the News page on the WBRG website:
https://www.wbrg.net/news/ <https://www.wbrg.net/news/>
The survey itself is accessible via the following link:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdhvhiAhqLJrPSSj3Rg-sPMjIpIQHDoaorWIIBjbaZArk6wmA/viewform <https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdhvhiAhqLJrPSSj3Rg-sPMjIpIQHDoaorWIIBjbaZArk6wmA/viewform>
In case of questions, please get in touch with Christian, Stephen, Bev or Markus via
christian.gates-st-pierre at umontreal.ca
stephen.rhodes at mail.utoronto.ca
bat23 at cornell.edu
markus.wild at zbsa.eu


The page for the Johannesburg 2021 meeting has been updated with the information regarding the conference proceedings:
https://www.wbrg.net/meetings/14th-meeting-johannesburg-2021/ <https://www.wbrg.net/meetings/14th-meeting-johannesburg-2021/>
If you want to contribute to the volume, please submit your manuscript to Quaternary International until the 25th of July 2022 via the following link:
https://www.journals.elsevier.com/quaternary-international <https://www.journals.elsevier.com/quaternary-international>
For any questions, please get in touch with Justin Bradfield <mailto:justinb at uj.ac.za>.


And here is a fun article about old kitchen tools related to a bone artefact:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/food/articles/kitchen_gadgets <https://www.bbc.co.uk/food/articles/kitchen_gadgets>


References added to the database:

# Charpentier, Anne / Rodrigues, Ana S. L. / Houmard, Claire / Lefebvre, Alexandre / McGrath, Krista / Speller, Camilla / van der Sluis, Laura / Zazzo, Antoine / Pétillon, Jean-Marc (2022): What's in a whale bone? Combining new analytical methods, ecology and history to shed light on ancient human-whale interactions. – Quaternary Science Reviews 284 
>>> download: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2022.107470 <https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2022.107470>

# Luik, Heidi & Haak, Arvi (2017): Decorated Antler Hammers and Axes from Estonia. – Archaeologia Baltica 24, 78-92
>>> download: https://doi.org/10.15181/ab.v24i0.1567

# Lund, Guro Koksvik (2013): Board games from the medieval town of Bergen. in: Øye, Ingvild (ed.): Small Things Forgotten. Locks and Keys & Board Games, Bryggen Papers Supplementary Series 9, 90-154, Bergen
>>> download: https://boap.uib.no/index.php/bryggen/issue/view/398/59 

# McLees, Christopher (1990): Games people played: gaming pieces, boards and dice from excavations in the medieval town of Trondheim, Meddelelser fra prosjektet Fortiden i Trondheim bygrunn: Folkebibliotekstomten 24, Trondheim

# Röber, Ralph (1995): Zur Verarbeitung von Knochen und Geweih im mittelalterlichen Südwestdeutschland. – Fundberichte aus Baden-Württemberg 20, 885–944

# von Ehrenthal, M. (1902): Hirschhorn-Einlagen. – Zeitschrift für historische Waffenkunde 2(3), 83 



Best wishes.

Christian
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Hans Christian Küchelmann 

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