[Bonetools] WBRG website updates August 2023

Sun Aug 6 22:34:42 CEST 2023

Dear WBRG members,

this month’s bonetool is probably the most unusual object we ever had since the existence of this website. It is probably also the oldest artefact provided so far and from a species we never had before. The (probable) pendants made of Glossotherium (giant sloth) bones have been found in a rock shelter in Brazil. They have been kindly provided by Thaís Pansani and were part of her PhD-thesis. For more information see
https://www.wbrg.net/bonetool-of-the-month-archives/ <https://www.wbrg.net/bonetool-of-the-month-archives/>

Tomorrow the 14th ICAZ conference in Cairns, Australia (7.-12. August 2023) will start with substantial contributions related to bone artefact research. There will be a sessions related to worked bone, an informal WBRG meeting and a presentation about the history of the WBRG:

• The session organized by Carola Flores Fernandez will be held on Saturday, 12. August 2023, 10:30-12:30 am and is entitled
Bone and Shell Fishhooks: A Close Up into Fishing Technology to Explore Knowledge, Tradition, Exchange, Migration and Beyond

The second worked bone session planned by Jennifer Hull ("Shaped by Place: Development of Osseous Industries from a Global Perspective“) has apparently been cancelled, at least it is not listed in the program anymore.

• There will be an informal WBRG meeting in Cairns on Wednesday, 9. August, 2-3 pm in Room M11.

• Alice Choyke will give a presentation about the history and development of the WBRG on Thursday, 10. August 2023, 4:00 - 5:20 pm (Cairns time), within the session 
"Where Have We Been and Where are We Going? Papers Celebrating 50 Years of Archaeozoology“. It is entitled
"Bringing the Strands Together: Forging Consensus on the Study of Worked Hard Osseous Materials“

For more information see:
https://www.wbrg.net/icaz-2023-cairns/ <https://www.wbrg.net/icaz-2023-cairns/>
https://www.icaz2023.org/full-program/ <https://www.icaz2023.org/full-program/>
https://www.icaz2023.org/call-for-abstracts/ <https://www.icaz2023.org/call-for-abstracts/>
https://www.icaz2023.org/ <https://www.icaz2023.org/>

I would like to remind you to answer the query Marianne Christensen and Nejma Goutas have set up for planning the 15th Meeting in Paris in May 2024, if you haven’t done it already. The form is available through this link:
framaforms.org/wbrg-2024-may-15th-wbrg-international-meeting-1686178595 <http://framaforms.org/wbrg-2024-may-15th-wbrg-international-meeting-1686178595>
Information about the meeting is available at
https://wbrg-2024.sciencesconf.org/?forward-action=index&forward-controller=index&lang=en <https://wbrg-2024.sciencesconf.org/?forward-action=index&forward-controller=index&lang=en>
and https://www.wbrg.net/meetings/15th-meeting-paris-2024/ <https://www.wbrg.net/meetings/15th-meeting-paris-2024/>

My colleague Natascha Mehler recently pointed me towards an extraordinary ivory artefact found in a Roman site in Wels, Austria. It is an ivory handle, which bears Chinese engravings and writing, suggesting the the object had been manufactured in China and traded to Austria. The article on the website of the Austrian Broadcasting Corporation (ORF) is in German, but it may be nevertheless interesting.
https://ooe.orf.at/stories/3217684/

References added to the database:

# Bačkalov, Aleksandar (1979): Predmeti od kostii roga u preneolitu I neolitu Srbije [Stone and Bone Tools in Preneolithic and Neolithic Serbia], Fontes archaeologiae Iugoslaviae 2, Beograd

# Billamboz, A. (1978): L’industrie du bois de cerf en Franche-Comté au Néolithique et au début de l’age du Bronze. – Gallia prehistoire 20(1), 7-176

# Choyke, Alice M. (1983): An analysis of bone, antler, and tooth tools from Bronze Age Hungary. – Mitteilungen des Archäologischen Institutes der Ungarischen Akademie der Wissenschaften 12/13, 13-57  

# Daróczi-Szabo, Márta / Kovács, Eszter / Raczky, P. / Bartosiewicz, Laszlo (2020): Pending danger: Recent Copper Age lion (Panthera leo L., 1758) finds from Hungary. – International Jounal of Osteoarchaeology 30(4), 469-481
>>> DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/oa.2875

# Eise, J. (2023): Von Fälschern, Päpsten und Spielern. – Archäologie in Deutschland 3/2023, 61

# Küchelmann, Hans Christian (2023): Auf Walfang im Bürgerpark – zwei verschollene Walknochenmonumente aus Bremen. – Abhandlungen des Naturwissenschaftichen Vereins zu Bremen 48(1), 27-31
>>> Anybody interested in this and the following paper on whale bone monuments, please get in touch with me at info at knochenarbeit.de.

# Küchelmann, Hans Christian & Friesen, Vitali (2023): Walfang mit Steinbeil?. – Archäologie in Deutschland 4/2023, 56-57

# Luciañèz Triviño, Miriam (2023): Ivory technology: tools, techniques and production modes in the Iberian Copper Age. Valencina de la Concepción (Seville) as a case study. – Trabajos De Prehistoria 80(1), e08
>>> DOI: https://doi.org/10.3989/tp.2023.12323 <https://doi.org/10.3989/tp.2023.12323>

# Markova, Hristina (2023): Chalcolithic Bone Spindle Whorls in Bulgaria: Finds from the “Tilkiyuk” Settlement Mound (Sadievo, Southeastern Bulgaria). – Epohi 31(1), 11-24 
>>> DOI: https://doi.org/10.54664/LSYH4086

# Pansani, Thais R. / Pobiner, Briana / Pobiner, Pierre / Thoury, Mathieu / Tafforeau, Paul / Baranger, Emmanuel / Vialou, Águeda V. / Vialou, Denis / McSparron, Cormac / de Castro, Mariela C. / Dantas, Mário A. T. / Bertrand, Loïc / Pacheco, Mírian L. A. F. (2023): Evidence of artefacts made of giant sloth bones in central Brazil around the last glacial maximum. – Proceedings of the Royal Society B 290
>>> DOI: https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2023.0316 <https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2023.0316>

Best wishes

Christian

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Hans Christian Küchelmann 

Speicherhof 4, D-28217 Bremen, Germany 
tel: +49 - 421 - 61 99 177
mail: info at knochenarbeit.de <mailto:info at knochenarbeit.de> 
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