[Bonetools] WBRG website updates June 2025

Thu Jun 12 16:42:18 CEST 2025

Dear WBRG members,

This month's bonetool derived from a presentation held by Anna Buderer during my archaeozoology seminar at the a University of Hamburg. In her presentation about snakes in the archaeological record she mentioned these modified snake vertebrae from the Lesser Antilles, and she kindly agreed to provide a blog for the WBRG:
https://www.wbrg.net/bonetool-of-the-month-archives/ <https://www.wbrg.net/bonetool-of-the-month-archives/>

The page of the colloquium Bone objects in the eastern Mediterranean, Near East, the Black Sea area and the Balkans during the Hellenistic, Roman and Early Byzantine periods“, organised by Ergün Lafli in Izmir last month, has been updated with the final version of the book of abstracts, poster and links to recordings of the presentations
https://www.wbrg.net/meetings/colloquium-2025-izmir/ <https://www.wbrg.net/meetings/colloquium-2025-izmir/>

Ergün Lafli would also like to announce another conference related to the WBRG on shell artefacts, entitled Worked Shells in the ancient world. Material, use, typology, chronology and contexts, which will be held in Izmir on the 20th of May 2026. See poster below and
https://www.wbrg.net/meetings/ <https://www.wbrg.net/meetings/>
https://www.wbrg.net/news/ <https://www.wbrg.net/news/>

The incredible video on Chinese bone intarsia crafts, recently posted by Jean-Marc Petillon, is now linked on the bottom of the Various Links page:
https://youtube.com/shorts/0OUbXcULR64?si=rOXeBa41k030mlOy <https://youtube.com/shorts/0OUbXcULR64?si=rOXeBa41k030mlOy>
https://www.wbrg.net/links/various-links

Finally, here are the new references added to the database:

# Antonosyan, Mariya / Mkrtchyan, Satenik / Amano, Noel / Davtyan, Ruben / Yeranyan, Nzhdeh / Badalyan, Mikayel / Poghosyan, Svetlana / Telunts, Anahit / Stepanyan, Karine / Amiryan, Mariam / Zakyan, Tigran / Eloshvili, Noushig / Adigyozalyan, Ani / Gyonjyan, Andranik / Simonyan, Hasmik / Sargsyan, Vahe / Saribekyan, Mariam / Hovhannisyan, Anahit / Simonyan, Hakob / Martirosyan-Olshansky, Kristine / Piliposyan, Ashot / Khachatryan, Zaruhi / Evora, Marina / Paladugu, Roshan / Bobokhyan, Arsen / Roberts, Patrick / Yepiskoposyan, Levon (2025): Species identification of osseous museum artefacts through peptide mass fingerprinting illustrated by a study on objects from Neolithic to Iron Age Armenia. – NPJ Heritage Science 13: 152
>>> DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s40494-025-01763-2

# Buc, Natacha (2011): Experimental Series and Use-wear in Bone Tools. – Journal of Archaeological Science 38(3), 546-557

# d'Errico, Francesco / Giacobini, Giacomo / Puech, Pierre-Francois (1984): Varnish Replicas: A New Method for the Study of Worked Bone Surfaces. – Ossa 9/11, 29-51
>>> download: https://zenodo.org/records/3275308

# Greep, Stephen J.  (1983): Objects of Animal Bone, Antler Ivory and Teeth from Roman Britain, PhD Thesis Cardiff University, Cardiff

# Greep, Stephen J. / Henig, Martin / Lockwood, Frank (2024): A Late Antique Decorated Casket and Jewellery from the Roman Villa at Fordham, Essex. – Britannia 55, 209-232
>>> DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0068113X24000321 

# Jeremić, Gordana / Lazić, Sara / Vitezović, Selena (2023): Koštana Spatula – Lenjir iz Naisa [Bone Spatula – Ruler from Naissus]. in: Miladinović-Radmilović, Nataša / Vulović, Dragana / Vitezović, Selena (eds.): Bioarheologija na Balkanu. Studije iz antropologije i zooarheologi [Bioarchaeology in the Balkans. Studies in Anthropology and Zooarchaeology], Papers of the Bioarchaeological section of the Serbian Archaeological Society, 97-109, Beograd

# Marković, Nemanja & Špehar, Perica (2023): Bone skates from the medieval site of Crkveno Brdo (Serbia). in: Miladinović-Radmilović, Nataša / Vulović, Dragana / Vitezović, Selena (eds.): Bioarheologija na Balkanu. Studije iz antropologije i zooarheologi [Bioarchaeology in the Balkans. Studies in Anthropology and Zooarchaeology], Papers of the Bioarchaeological section of the Serbian Archaeological Society, 83-96, Beograd

# Maigrot, Yolaine (2003): Etude technologique et fonctionnelle de l’outillage en matières dures animales. La station 4 de Chalain (Néolithique final, Jura, France), PhD thesis Université de Paris 1, Paris 

# McGrath, Krista / van der Sluis, Laura / Lefebvre, Alexandre / Charpentier, Anne / Rodrigues, Ana S. L. / Àlvarez-Fernandez, Esteban / Baleux, François / Berganza, Eduardo / Chauvière, Francois-Xavier / Dachary, Morgane / Duarte Matías, Elsa / Houmard, Claire / Marín-Arroyo, Ana B. / de la Rasilla, Marco / Tapia, Jesús / Thil, François / Tombret, Olivier / Torres-Iglesias, Leire / Speller, Camilla F. / Zazzo, Antoine / Pétillon, Jean-Marc (2025): Late Paleolithic whale bone tools reveal human and whale ecology in the Bay of Biscay. – Nature Communications 16(4646)
>>> DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-59486-8

# Ambers, Janet / Cartwright, C. R. / Higitt, C. / Hook, D. / Passmore, E. / Simpson, St. John / Verri, G. / Ward, C. / Wills, B. (2014): Looted, Recovered, Returned: Antiquities from Afghanistan, Oxford
>>> Ordering: https://www.archaeopress.com/Archaeopress/Products/9781784910167

# Simpson, St. John (2016): The “Begram Ivories”: A Successful Case of Restitution of Some Antiquities Stolen from the National Museum of Afghanistan in Kabul. – International Journal of Cultural Property 23 special issue 4, 459-477
>>> DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0940739116000266

# van Gijn, Annelou (2014): Science and interpretation in microwear studies. – Journal of Archaeological Science 48, 166-169

Best wishes.

Christian

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