[Bonetools] Sabine Deschler-Erb

[Ian Riddler]

Dear colleagues,

Very sad news about Sabine. She was a real force in Roman worked bone studies and all of her work remains so valuable. She set a standard for publication that was way ahead of its time. A very sad day,

Ian Riddler
________________________________
From: Bonetools <bonetools-bounces at listserv.niif.hu> on behalf of Alice Choyke <choyke at gmail.com>
Sent: 02 December 2025 10:13 PM
To: Mailing list for archaeologists of the research group for the study of object and waste of bone, antler. ivory and horn. <bonetools at listserv.niif.hu>
Subject: [Bonetools] Sabine Deschler-Erb

Dear Colleagues,
    I have learned that our colleague, Sabine Deschler-Erb, has died after a long illness. Sabine was a full and very active professor in the Department of Ancient Civilizations at the University of Basel in Switzerland. She worked in a number of research areas as a zooarchaeologist, focused on Roman Studies,  notably including Roman worked bone. Until several years ago, Sabine was a long-time editor at Instrumentum, a journal dealing with ancient technology and particularly worked bone. For her PhD she studied bone tool manufacturing from Roman Augusta Raurica and produced a two volume,seminal study of these several thousands of objects.
      Most of all, she was a hard-working, kind person with a very positive outlook on life. It is very difficult for me to imagine the laboratory at the University of Basel without her. Her death is a personal loss and a loss for scholarly work on the European part of the Roman Empire.

Alice Choyke
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <https://listserv.niif.hu/pipermail/bonetools/attachments/20251203/517f53f9/attachment.htm>