[Bonetools] WBRG website updates December 2025

Sat Dec 6 17:33:48 CET 2025

 Dear Christian, dear All,
Thank you for the news. I would like to make an important note regarding the announced date of the 16th WBRG meeting in Osmanye: it is totally overlapping with the date of the 3rd Meeting of the Medieval Period Working group (from October 7th to 9th, 2026) in Brussels. The organisers of the latter conference have announced their meeting in the last Newsletter:https://alexandriaarchive.org/icaz/icaz_website_formembers/pdf/icaz-newsletter-25-2.pdf
 Kind regards,Erika    On Saturday 6 December 2025 at 16:07:23 CET, Hans Christian Küchelmann <info at knochenarbeit.de> wrote:  

 Dear WBRG members,
the most important and terrifically sad news this month is the passing away of Sabine Deschler-Erb, which has been mentioned already by Alice Choyke in BONETOOLS recently. I am not very good at writing condolences, particularly in a foreign language, but I would like to mention that the atmosphere I experienced at the 3rd WBRG in Basel, my first scientific conference ever, which was created Sabine, Jörg Schibler and the whole Basel team, was a crucial factor in my decision to stay within the field of archaeozoology and to become engaged in the WBRG. It was not only Sabine, of course, but she was at least a significant part of it. It was not foreseeable back then that this would become a 25 years permanent engagement in the WBRG during which we kept regular contacts. I attach a nice and lively picture of Sabine, which has been sent to ZooArch last week by Maaike Groot showing her in a break at the Limes congress in 2015. With Maaike’s permission I have put this photo on the WBRG website to keep Sabine in mind:https://www.wbrg.net/news/

For this month's bonetool Matilde Lanza has prepared a blog about 19th century household items of gauchos in the Argentinian Pampas region:https://www.wbrg.net/bonetool-of-the-month-archives/

Ayça Gerçek has announced the date of the 16th WBRG meeting in Osmanye, Turkey, which will take place from the 5th to 10th of October 2026.https://www.wbrg.net/meetings/https://www.wbrg.net/meetings/16th-meeting-osmaniye/https://www.wbrg.net/news/

Grzegorz Osipowicz and Justyna Orłowska are preparing a special volume on bone artefacts for the journal Heritage entitled "Current Studies on Archaeological Worked Bone Heritage“. Manuscript submission deadline is 30 June 2026.More information is available on the WBRG website athttps://www.wbrg.net/news/and in the attached call for papers.

New references:
# Antonites, Annie R. / Bradfield, Justin / Forssman, Tim  (2025): Worked bone and shell from forager and farmer sites in the Limpopo Valley. – Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa, 1-30>>> DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/0067270X.2025.2586360
# Bogen, Chr.  (2025): Knochenring in einer Kinderbestattung. – Archäologie in Deutschland 5/2025, 67
# Bradfield, Justin & Langley, Michelle C.  (2025): Bone Tool Diversity During the Stone Age: More Insights into the Human Story. – Journal of Archaeological Research, 1-55>>> DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10814-025-09211-2
# Bradfield, Justin / Antonites, Alexander / Antonites, Annie R.  (2025): Technology and microwear of worked bone from Letaba, an Early Iron Age site in the Limpopo province, South Africa. – Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences 17:143, 1-20>>> DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12520-025-02258-8
# Cleminson, Emma / Bradfield, Justin / Wurz, Sarah / Reynard, Jerome P. (2025): Unprepared for work: Preliminary analyses of ad hoc bone tools from the Howiesons Poort layers at Klasies River main site, South Africa. – Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 64:10528, 1-13>>> DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2025.105128
# Fitzgerald, M.  (2012): Bone pins and needles. in: Cotter, C. (ed.):  The Western Stone Forts Project: excavations at Dún Aonghasa and Dún Eoghanachta, 118-135, Dublin
# Goutas, Nejma  (2024): Niveaux de compétence et apprentissage dans l’artisanat des matières osseuses au Paléolithique: considérations théoriques et cas d’études archéologiques. – Paleo 34, 116-179>>> DOI: https://doi.org/10.4000/1516q
# Greep, Stephen J. / Lord, Tom / McGrath, Krista / O'Connor, Sonia / O'Connor, Terry  (2024): The Perforated Spoons of Roman Britain. – Yorkshire Archaeological Journal 96, 1-36>>> DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/00844276.2025.2508576
# Greep, Stephen J.  (2025): A Roman cremation from the Old Kent Road: new light on an old find. – London Archaeologist Autumn 2025, 258-260
# Greep, Stephen J.  (2025): Spoon-Shaped Objects with Weapon Terminals from Western Britain. – Britannia, 1-9>>> DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0068113X25100469
# Hogarth, Sibylle  (2023): Kämme aus Knochen und Geweih. Handel und Handwerk Nordostdeutschlands im Frühmittelalter, Dissertation Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin>>> DOI: https://doi.org/10.18452/27772
# Lehnertz, Andreas  (2021): Dismantling a Monopoly: Jews, Christians, and the Production of Shofarot in Fifteenth-Century Germany. – Medieval Encounters 27(4-5), 360-386>>> online: https://brill.com/view/journals/me/27/4-5/article-p360_4.xml
# Manca, Laura / Mashkour, Marjan / Shidrang, Sonia / Averbouh, Aline / Biglari, Fereldoun  (2018): Bone, shell tools and ornaments from the Epipalaeolithic site of Ali Tappeh, East of Alborz Range, Iran. – Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 21, 137-157>>>DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2018.06.023
# Pelton, Spencer R. / Litynski, McKenna / Allaun, Sarah A. / Buckley, Michael / Goværts, Jack / Schoborg, Todd / O'Brien, Matthew / Hill, Matthew G. / Sanders, Paul / Mackie, Madeline E. / Kelly, Robert L. / Surovell, Todd A.  (2024): Early Paleoindian use of canids, felids, and hares for bone needle production at the La Prele site, Wyoming, USA. – Public Library of Science one 19(11):e0313610, 1-14>>> DOI: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0313610
# Sasson, Eli Cohen & Ayalon, Etan  (2025): Secondary Use of Ancient Marble Posts as Anvils for Serrating Sickles in Modern Times. in: Eisenberg, Michael / Ad, Uzi / Ayalon, Etan (eds.):  Ancient Technologies, Methods of Production and Installations in Israel — Essays in Honor of Rafael Frankel, 193-204
# Star, Bastiaan / Barrett, James H. / Gondek, Agata T. / Boessenkool, Sanne  (2018): Ancient DNA reveals the chronology of walrus ivory trade from Norse Greenland. – Proceedings of the Royal Society B 285(1884) >>> DOI: https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2018.0978
# Wolf, Sibylle & Conard, Nicholas J.  (2025): Elfenbein aus dem Hohle Fels. Altsteinzeitlicher Meißel. – Archäologie in Deutschland 6/2025, 4 

 Best wishes.
Christian
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