[Bonetools] WBRG website updates February 2025

Thu Feb 6 22:59:31 CET 2025

Dear WBRG members,

this month Thais Rabito Pansani kindly provided another Pleistocene modified ground sloth item from Brazil as bonetool of the month:
https://www.wbrg.net/bonetool-of-the-month-archives/ <https://www.wbrg.net/bonetool-of-the-month-archives/>

Two new meeting pages have been added:

One for the upcoming workshop of the Union Internationale des Sciences Préhistoriques et Protohistoriques (UISPP) commission „Modified Bone and Shell“, to be held at the Museum für Vor- und Frühgeschichte Berlin from April 23rd to 25th, 2026. The workshop is entitled „Engraved bones: Gripping aids, signs, and decorations“ and will be organised by Ewa Dutkiewicz <mailto:e.dutkiewicz at smb.spk-berlin.de>, Christian Bentz and Éva David <mailto:eva.david at cnrs.fr>. More information:
https://uispp.net/en/commissions/activities/international-workshop-engraved-bones
https://www.wbrg.net/meetings/uispp-berlin-2026/
https://www.wbrg.net/meetings/
https://www.wbrg.net/news/

Another meeting page is now available for the table ronde held in Angouleme 2003 with information about the meeting and the publication:
https://www.wbrg.net/meetings/table-ronde-2003-angouleme/ <https://www.wbrg.net/meetings/table-ronde-2003-angouleme/>

The recently published book "Osseous and keratinous objects from the Netherlands <https://www.wbrg.net/references/biblio-detail/?id=4887>“ published by of Marloes Rijkelijkhuizen, Jørn Zeiler and Joyce van Dijk is based upon an access database entitled Bone Art: Osseous and keratinous objects in the Netherlands, which contains about 21.000 osseous artefacts. It can be downloaded from the website of the Dutch National Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS):
https://doi.org/10.17026/AR/FEFITX <https://doi.org/10.17026/AR/FEFITX>
It is now also linked to the WBRG website on the page with Various Links:
https://www.wbrg.net/links/various-links/ <https://www.wbrg.net/links/various-links/>

It is still possible to vote for Ian Riddler's and Nicola Trzaska-Nartowski’s research on Viking Age antler combs from Ipswich as Research Project of the Year 2025 within the Current Archaeology award. To vote, go to
https://archaeology.co.uk/vote <https://archaeology.co.uk/vote>
Scroll down to "Signs of the tines: tracing Viking Age comb production in Ipswich“ and place your vote until the 10th of February.

Grzegorz Osipowicz <mailto:Grzegorz.Osipowicz at umk.pl> announces the launching of the project „Plant Raw Materials in the life of middle Holocene hunter-gatherer-fisher communities of the southeastern coast of the Baltic Sea (PARTS). In the conducted experiments, a lot of bone tools and osseous raw materials will be used. More information can be found on the following websites:
https://partsproject.umk.pl/ <https://partsproject.umk.pl/>
https://www.facebook.com/PARTSproject2025/ <https://www.facebook.com/PARTSproject2025/>

And as usual, the new references added to the database:

# Bradfield, Justin / Dubery, Ian A. / Steenkamp, Paul A. (2024): A 7,000-year-old multi-component arrow poison from Kruger Cave, South Africa. – iScience 27(12) 111438
>>> online: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2024.111438

# Riddler, Ian D. / Trzaska-Nartowski, Nicola I. A. / Hatton, Shona (2023): Objects and waste of antler, bone and ivory. in: Lynch, A. / Manning, C. / Wiggins, K. (eds.): Dublin Castle: from Fortress to Palace. Volume 2: the Viking Age Archaeology, 106-146, Dublin

# Riddler, Ian D. (2024): Worked Bone and Antler. in: Knight, Mark / Ballantyne, Rachel / Cooper, Anwen / Gibson, David / Robinson-Zeki, Iona (eds.): Must Farm Pile-Dwelling Settlement. Volume 2: Specialist Reports, 1003-1016, Cambridge

# Riddler, Ian D. (2024): Bone Objects from the Hill of Ward. in: Davis, Stephen & Moore, Caitríona (eds.): Excavations at Tlachtga, Hill of Ward, Co. Meath, Ireland, 108-114, Oxford  

# Schiefelbein, J.-M. (2025): Die Würfel sind gefallen. – Archäologie in Deutschland 172025, 54-55

All individual articles of the proceedings of the table ronde in Angouleme 2003: are now included in the reference database:

# Dujardin, Véronique (2005): Industrie osseuse et parures du Solutréen au Magdalénien en Europe. Table ronde sur le paléolithique supérieur récent, Angouleme (Charente) 28-30 Mars 2003, Mémoire de la Société Préhistorique Francaise 39, Paris

New added content:

# Chauvière, Francois-Xavier & Rigaud, André: Les "sagaies" à "base raccourcie" ou les avatars de la typologie: du technique au "non-fonctionnel" dans le Magdalénien à navettes de la Garenne (Saint-Marcel, Indre).

# Pétillon, Jean-Marc: Tir expérimental de pointes à base fourchue en bois de renne.

# Cacho Quesada, Carmen & del la Torre Sáinz, Ignacio: Les harpons magdaléniens sur le versant méditerranéen espagnol.

# Ladier, Edmeé: Quelques batons en cours de percement des collections du musée d'Historie naturelle Montauban: observations techniques.

# Schwab, Catherine: Les “os à impressions” magdaléniens d’Isturitz (Pyrénées-Atlantiques) et de la Vache (Ariège).

# Cattellain, Pierre: Propulseurs magdaléniens: marqueurs culturels régionaux?

# Welté, Anne-Catherine: Les dents de l’abri Duruthy (Sorde-l’Abbaye), collection Éd. et L. Lartet, conservées au muséum d’histoire naturelle de Toulouse.

# Bullinger, Jérome & Müller, Werner: Nouvelles découvertes d’incisives de marmotte sciées dans des sites magdaléniens de l’arc jurassien.

# Cauwe, Nicolas: Du cadavre à la relique: l’usage de l’os humain au Magdalénien.

Best wishes.

Christian

-- 
Knochenarbeit 

Hans Christian Küchelmann 

Speicherhof 4, D-28217 Bremen, Germany 
tel: +49 - 421 - 61 99 177 
mail: info at knochenarbeit.de <mailto:info at knochenarbeit.de> 
web: www.knochenarbeit.de <http://www.knochenarbeit.de/>
ORCID-ID: 0000-0003-0207-3804

-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <https://listserv.niif.hu/pipermail/bonetools/attachments/20250206/ac596edb/attachment-0001.htm>