[Bonetools] Sabine festschrift

Fri Dec 12 16:01:54 CET 2025

Dear Ian,
     It would be a good idea but someone has to organize it. It really
should cover Roman, Roman period and Late Antique bone tool studies in
Europe. This is not particularly my world and I think that we should wait
and see what happens with her Swiss colleagues. Let this idea simmer a bit.

Best,
Alice

On Thu, Dec 11, 2025, 02:05 Ian Riddler <trzaska2 at outlook.com> wrote:

> Dear Hans,
>
> Very many thanks for sending in the photo of Sabine. It is such a sad
> loss. I just wonder whether we should be thinking of a small volume of
> studies in her honour, given that she was such an important (and wonderful)
> figure in worked bone and antler studies. I wonder if others feel that
> might be appropriate, she was a special person in so many ways.
>
> Many thanks,
>
> Ian Riddler
> ------------------------------
> *From:* Bonetools <bonetools-bounces at listserv.niif.hu> on behalf of Hans
> Christian Küchelmann <info at knochenarbeit.de>
> *Sent:* 06 December 2025 3:06 PM
> *To:* BONETOOLS <bonetools at listserv.niif.hu>
> *Cc:* Andreas Lehnertz <lehnertz at uni-trier.de>; Steve Ashby <
> steve.ashby at york.ac.uk>; Matilde Lanza <matildelanza at yahoo.com.ar>;
> Shyama Vermeersch <shyama.vermeersch at gmail.com>; Sebastian Muñoz <
> sebas.munoz at gmail.com>
> *Subject:* [Bonetools] WBRG website updates December 2025
>
> 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 at
> https://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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