[Bonetools] WBRG website updates March 2024

Sun Mar 3 22:20:43 CET 2024

Dear WBRG members,

back in April 2022 Marta Blasco Martín sent me a proposal for a bonetool of the month, which arose out of a research she was carrying out at the Aztec temple of Teotihuacan with the team of the Arizona State University Teotihuacan Research Laboratory. Although the proposed artefacts definitely fit into the scope of the WBRG, I have to admit that I was reluctant to publish them since the artefacts are made of human bones and are first hand evidence of Aztec human sacrifice practices. But then again they are definitely an aspect of our subject and why should we hide this evidence. So, readers may be warned that bonetools can also be scary.  
https://www.wbrg.net/bonetool-of-the-month-archives/ <https://www.wbrg.net/bonetool-of-the-month-archives/>

A special issue of Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports has recently been published by Daniella Bar-Yosef and Heeli Schechter entitled "Shell and Personal Adornments in Neolithic Cultures". It contains five papers related to the shell artefacts (see below) and can be accessed via
https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/journal-of-archaeological-science-reports/special-issue/10GMQPMCJP6 

That’s all to report this month, except for the references.

References added to the database:

# Barnet, Peter (1997): Images in Ivory. Precious Objects of the Gothic Age, Detroit

# Bar-Yosef Mayer, Daniella & Schechter, Heeli (2023): Shell and Personal Adornments in Neolithic Cultures. – Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 52 (Special Issue)
>>> online: https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/journal-of-archaeological-science-reports/special-issue/10GMQPMCJP6

# Baysal, Emma L. & Yelözer, Sera (2024): From prehistoric shores: Marine shell ornaments, landscape, interaction and the Neolithic transition in Anatolia. – Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 53:104312
>>> DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2023.104312

# Beveridge, H. (1914): Emperor Jehangir's Treasure of Walrus and Narwhal Ivory. – Indian Magazine 2/1914, 37-39

# Böhmer, R. M. & Wrede, Nadja (2985): Astragalspiele in und um Warka. – Baghdader Mitteilungen 16, 399-404

# Dalton, O. M. (1909): Catalogue of the Ivory Carvings of the Christian Era, etc., of the British Museum, London

# Kozuch, Laura (2023): Cahokia's shell bead crafters and maize producers: A re-examination of the data. – Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 52:104277
>>> DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2023.104277

# Mărgărit, Monica (2024): Shell adornments of the 6th-5th millennia BC in the Romanian Lower Danube area. – Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 54:104436
>>> DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2024.104436

# Pälsi, Sakari (1983): Arktisia kuvia. Alkeellisia taideteoksia koillisesta Siperiasta [Arctic Pictures. Primitive Pieces of Art from North Eastern Siberia], Helsinki

# Schechter, Heeli (2023): Experimenting with Levantine Neolithic shell-bead production and use – A low magnification perspective. – Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 52:104231
>>> DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2023.104231

# Schwindrazheim, Hildamarie (1968): Von Scrimshaw und Archangelsk-Arbeit. in: Kamphausen, A. (ed.): Schleswig-Holstein und der Norden, 138-147, Neumünster

# Schwindrazheim, Hildamarie (1974): Nähkästchen. Walrosszahnauflage auf Weichholz. Archangelsk-Arbeit, um 1800. – Jahrbuch Altonaer Museum 12

# Smith, Dave B. / Schechter, Heeli / Bar-Yosef Mayer, Daniella / Mithen, Steven J. (2024): From seashore to Neolithic floor: origins and spatial distribution patterns of shell bead assemblages at WF16, a Pre-Pottery Neolithic A settlement in Southern Jordan. – Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 53:104357
>>> DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2023.104357

# Warren, E. Cox (1946): Chinese Ivory Sculpture, New York 

Best wishes.

Christian

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