[Bonetools] WBRG website updates March 2023

Sun Mar 12 14:40:42 CET 2023

Dear WBRG members,

sorry for the delayed updates this month. Again, I fell heavily behind my planned schedules… 😟

This month’s bonetool is a strange cattle mandible artefact of yet unknown purpose from the Altai Republic:
https://www.wbrg.net/bonetool-of-the-month-archives/ <https://www.wbrg.net/bonetool-of-the-month-archives/>
Sarah Pleuger (sarahpleuger at archaeozoo.org <mailto:sarahpleuger at archaeozoo.org>) and Taylor Hermes would be very grateful for comparative objects or other suggestions.

Carina Garland of Reading University is also requesting your assistance for a question about an Early Bronze Age or Bell Beaker artefact found in Lyminge, Kent, UK. I forward her mail with context information and photos below. If you have any suggestions or comparative items please get in touch with Carina at c.a.s.garland at pgr.reading.ac.uk <mailto:c.a.s.garland at pgr.reading.ac.uk>. And please do not forget to put the BONETOOLS list in CC, when you reply to Carina (or Sarah), since we are all curious…

Etan Ayalon kindly provided me with a pdf of his 1999 catalogue which is now stored on the WBRG website for download:
# Ayalon, Etan & Sorek, Chagit (1999): Bare Bones – Ancient Artifacts from Animal Bones, Tel Aviv
>>> download (16,6 MB): https://www.wbrg.net/wp-content/uploads/Ayalon-Sorek-1999-Bare-Bones.pdf <https://www.wbrg.net/wp-content/uploads/Ayalon-Sorek-1999-Bare-Bones.pdf> 

A third session related to bone artefacts organised by Michelle Langley will be held at the upcoming ICAZ conference in Carins, Australia, 7.-12. August 2023 (https://www.icaz2023.org/ <https://www.icaz2023.org/>). However, I do not know the title and details yet. I will update this information as soon as I receive any details. 

It is also time to send out a call for funding of the WBRG website again. The costs for hosting and maintenance of the WBRG website have been covered for many years by the Institut für Prähistorische und Naturwissenschaftliche Archäologie of the University of Basel, Switzerland, but since the retirement of Jörg Schibler these costs are not covered anymore. Thus, for the last two years the continuation of the WBRG website has been possible through grants of several institutions and individuals, which are listed here: https://www.wbrg.net/impressum/ <https://www.wbrg.net/impressum/>. 
For this year and for the future the costs are not completely covered yet. Therefore, if you work in an institutions able and willing to support the maintenance of the WBRG website, please consider a grant and get in touch with Justyna Baron (justyna.baron at gmail.com <mailto:justyna.baron at gmail.com>) at Uniwersytet Wrocławski, Poland, who is kindly organising the formalities of the funding.

References added to the database:

# Baron, Justyna / Diakowski, Marcin / Badura, Beata / Stolarczyk, Tomasz (2022): Bone, antler, and tooth objects from the late bronze/early Iron Age urnfields in south-western Poland. – Quaternary International
>>> download: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2022.10.014

# Blasco Martin, Marta (2022): Artesanías en hueso, asta, cuerno y marfil en el mundo ibérico. Serie de Trabajos Varios del Servicio de Investigación Prehistórica, Valencia
>>> downlaod: http://mupreva.org/web_mupreva_dedalo/publicaciones/1596/va <http://mupreva.org/web_mupreva_dedalo/publicaciones/1596/va>

# Blasco Martin, Marta & Barceló Torres, Carmen (2022): Letras trazadas en hueso. Alfabetos de la València islámica sobre escápulas de bóvidos.. – Zephyrus 90, 237-260
>>> download: https://doi.org/10.14201/zephyrus202290237260 <https://doi.org/10.14201/zephyrus202290237260>

# Britnell, W. J. (1976): Antler Cheekpieces of the British Late Bronze Age. – Antiquaries Journal 56(1), 24-34

# Chechushkov, Igor V. / Ovsyannikov, A. A. / Usmanova, E. R. (2020): On the Earliest Use of Plate-Formed Cheekpieces and the Emergence of Horse Riding (Based on Finds from the Novoilyinovskiy II Cemetery in Northern Kazakhstan). – Archaeology, Ethnology and Anthropology of Eurasia 48(2), 49-58  

# Depaulis, Thierry (2000): Les Indo-Européens jouaient-ils aux dés?. – Board Game Studies Journal 3, 103-106

# Frank, Christa (2019): Weichtiere in der Weltgeschichte. – Denisia 42, 1-504

# Grigoriev, Stanislav (2021): The evolution of antler and bone cheekpieces from Balkan-Carpathian region to Central Kazakhstan: Chronology of “chariot” cultures and mycenaean Greece. – Journal of Ancient History and Archeology 8(2), 148-189
>>> DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.14795/j.v8i2.633

# Höglinger, P. (1986): Vier Geweihknebel vom Rainberg – Stadt Salzburg. – Archäologisches Korrespondenzblatt 16, 419-425

# Kostygina (Novikova), L. A. (1996): K izutcheniyu kostoreznogo remesla drevnei Tveri. in: Khokhlov, A. N. / Dvornikov, A. S. / Salimov, A. M. (eds.): Tver, Tverskaya zemlya i sopredel’nye territorii v epokhu srednevekov’ya / Tver, Tver Region and Neighbour Territories in the Middle Ages, 181-188, Tver

# Muñiz Guinea, Fernando / Cáceres Puro, Luis Miguel / Díaz-Zorita Bonilla, Marta / Vargas Jiménez, Manuel / Bocherens, Hervé / Nebelsick, James H. / Donaire Romero, Teodosio / Rodríguez Vidal, Joaquín (2022): Environmental Implications and Chalcolithic Ornamental Use of Marine Barnacle Shells Present in the Tholos of ‘La Pastora’ (Valencina de la Concepción, Sevilla, Spain). – Environmental Archaeology 27(5), 496-507
>>> download: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10.1080/14614103.2021.1891813 <https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10.1080/14614103.2021.1891813>

# Schädler, Ulrich (1996): Spielen mit Astragalen. – Archäologischer Anzeiger 1/1996, 61-73

# Vitezović, Selena (2023): Bone technology in the Late Neolithic Vinča culture: Manufacturing pointed tools. – Quaternary International
>>> DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2023.02.017 <https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2023.02.017>
>>> free download until 28.4.: https://authors.elsevier.com/a/1gjDR_NgJ7y%7E%7Ed <https://authors.elsevier.com/a/1gjDR_NgJ7y~~d>

# Vitezović, Selena / Bulatovic, Jelena B. / Mitrović, Jovan D. (2023): Bird bone artifact from the Late Eneolithic/Early Bronze Age site of Zók (Hungary). – International Jounal of Osteoarchaeology  
>>> DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/oa.3209

# Walter, M. & Wiegmann, U. (2022): Römisches Kleinod in Brandenburg. – Archäologie in Deutschland 2/2022, 54

With kind regards

Christian

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> Anfang der weitergeleiteten Nachricht:
> 
> Von: Carina Garland <c.a.s.garland at pgr.reading.ac.uk>
> Betreff: bone belt ring from Kent
> Datum: 17. Februar 2023 um 11:13:54 MEZ
> An: "info at knochenarbeit.de" <info at knochenarbeit.de>
> 
> Hello Hans, 
>  
> I hope you are well. I would very much appreciate your expertise and help in identifying an artefact I am researching.
>  
> I am a PhD student at the University of Reading and I am currently working on writing up a site as part of my PhD by publication.
>  
> I am working on Lyminge, Kent. There is a Bronze Age barrow and possible Beaker burial on this site. Within the ‘Beaker’ burial was found a bone item (picture attached). It was originally described as a ‘toggle’ however from my research I would say it is actually a class 1 – magnifying glass style belt ring as described by Hunter and Woodwards in Ritual in Early Bronze Age Grave Goods: An examination of ritual and dress equipment from Chalcolithic and Early Bronze Age graves in England (2015).
>  
> The reason I am emailing is because I have only found one example that is even remotely similar to this and that was also found in Kent, in Sittingbourne. I have also attached a picture of this belt ring for reference.
>  
> It has also been suggested that these could be bow stringers for Archery, however I am not convinced by this.  
>  
> I suspect that both examples have links elsewhere in Europe however I am struggling to find any information on such items.
>  
> I am hoping that someone on affiliated with the WBRG or someone using the website will recognise it and be able to recommend a reference for me to look in to.
>  
> I would be very grateful if you could please put my object up on the website or circulate amongst your colleagues?
> You are also welcome to give my email address to anyone who wants to contact me directly regarding this.
>  
> Thank you again for your time and I look forward to hearing from you.
>  
> Kind Regards, 
> Carina Garland
> University of Reading Archaeology Department
>  

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