[Bonetools] WBRG website updates November 2025

Tue Nov 4 19:43:34 CET 2025

Dear WBRG members,

this month's bonetool: is a very extraordinary object, a probably Phoenician votive ship made of a horse mandible, provided by Juan Lopez Padilla (MARQ <https://www.marqalicante.com/>. Archaeological Museum of Alicante) and Teresa Conesa (ARQVA <https://www.cultura.gob.es/mnarqua/en/home.html>. National Museum of Underwater Archaeology):
https://www.wbrg.net/bonetool-of-the-month-archives/ <https://www.wbrg.net/bonetool-of-the-month-archives/>

A new page has been added for the The 21st World Congress of the Union of Prehistoric and Protohistoric Sciences (UISPP <https://uispp2026.syskonf.pl/>) taking place 31.8. - 4.9.2026 in Poznań, Poland, which will include a worked bone related session organised by Eva David & Catherine Schwab entitled: 
Miniature and miniaturisation. Artefactual, technical and symbolic issues in worked material used as tools
Session description <https://uispp2026.syskonf.pl/conf-data/UISPP2026/files/David%20-%20Miniature%20and%20miniaturisation_%20Artefactual,%20technical%20and%20symbolic%20issues%20in%20worked%20material%20used%20as%20tools.pdf>
https://www.wbrg.net/meetings/uispp-2026-poznan/ <https://www.wbrg.net/meetings/uispp-2026-poznan/>
https://www.wbrg.net/meetings/ <https://www.wbrg.net/meetings/>
https://www.wbrg.net/news/ <https://www.wbrg.net/news/>

One of the raw material identification pages has been updated:
https://www.wbrg.net/identification/biomolecular-physical-analysis/

New references:

# Jones O'Day, Sharon & Keegan, William F. (2001): Expedient shell tools from the northern West Indies. – Latin American Antiquity 12(3), 274-290
>>> DOI: https://doi.org/10.2307/971633 <https://doi.org/10.2307/971633>

# Ó Maoldúin, R. / Presslee, Samantha / Kearney, K. / Channing, J. / Riddler, Ian D. / Trzaska-Nartowski, Nicola I. A. / Nicholl, J. / Herriott, C. / Kelly, B. / Weadick, S. (2024): Cutting Edge without the Cutting: Eraser Sampling for ZooMS. – Archaeology Ireland 38(4), 19-23

# Riddler, Ian D. (2025): Combs, Beads and Protection: Grave 210 from Eriswell, Suffolk. in: Chick, J. & Hodges, R. (eds.): A Cornucopia for a Polymath: Studies in Architecture, Archaeology and Art History for John Burnett Mitchell, 183-192, Oxford

# Riddler, Ian D. (2025): Objects of Antler and Bone. in: Morris, F. M. & Davey, J. E. R. (eds.): A Landscape of Plenty: Excavations on a Roman Estate, Cambridgeshire, 113-120, Oxford

# Riddler, Ian D. & Trzaska-Nartowski, Nicola I. A. (2025): Objects and Waste of Bone, Antler and Ivory. in: Anderson, Sue / Minter, Faye / Plouviez, Jude (eds.): The Anglo-Saxon Cremation Cemetery at Lackford, Suffolk; a Reconsideration following excavations in 2015-16, East Anglian Archaeology 183, 51-77, Bury St. Edmunds
>>> ordering: https://eaareports.org.uk/publication/report183/ <https://eaareports.org.uk/publication/report183/>

# Szabó, Katherine / Dupont, Catherine / Dimitrijević , Vesna / Gastélum, Luis Gómez / Serrand, Nathalie (2014): Archaeomalacology: Shells in the Archaeological Record, British Archaeological Reports International Series 2666, Oxford

This book contains the following nine papers related to worked Mollusca, which have been added as separate datasets:

# Abu-Laban, Aiysha (2014): Tue use of marine mollusc shells at the Neolithic site Shkarat Msaied, Jordan

# Deshpande-Mukherjee, Arati & Shinde, Vasant (2014): Evaluating the role of molluscan shells assemblage recovered from Padri, a coastal Harappan settlement in Gujarat, India

# Dimitrijević , Vesna (2014): Tue provenance and use of fossil scaphopod shells at the Late Neolithic/Eneolithic site Vrnca - Belo Brdo, Serbia

# Dupont, Catherine / Laporte, Luc / Courtaud, Patrice / Duday, Henri / Gruet, Yves (2014): Perforated shells from an Early Mesolithic cemeteiy at La Vergne (Charente-Maritime, France): from acquisition to use and (sometimes) to wear.

# Gastélum, Luis Gómez (2014): Shell use in West Mexico and the Southwestem United States. An archaeological comparison

# Serrand, Nathalie & Cummings, Kevin S. (2014): Occurences of exogenous freshwater mussel shells (Bivalvia: Unionida) during the precolumbian ceramic age of the lesser Antilles

# Theodoropoulou, Tatiana (2014): Dead from the sea: worn shells in Aegean prehistory

# Bar-Yosef Mayer, Daniella (2014): Temporal changes in shell bead technologies based on Levantine examples

# Cuenca-Solana, David / Gutiérrez-Zugasti, Igor / Clemente Conte, Ignacio (2014): Shell tools in an early Neolithic coastal site in the Cantabrian region (Northern Spain): an experimental program for use-wear analysis at Santimamiñe cave

Best wishes.

Christian

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