[Bonetools] WBRG website updates September 2025

[Hans Christian Küchelmann]

Dear WBRG members,

coincidently, I have chosen another possible container as this month's bonetool, this time a carapace of a European pond turtle (Emys orbicularis) from the Mesolithic site of Friesack in Eastern Germany, engraved with ornamental decorations: 
https://www.wbrg.net/bonetool-of-the-month-archives/ <https://www.wbrg.net/bonetool-of-the-month-archives/>
This artefact was part of a presentation about turtles in the archaeological record, given by Julia-Sophie Meier, another student of mine at the University of Hamburg in January this year. If you have questions about this find, please get in touch with Julia-Sophie via julia-sophie.meier at studium.uni-hamburg.de <mailto:julia-sophie.meier at studium.uni-hamburg.de>.



Nothing else to report this month, except for the new references added to the database:

# Birtalan, Á. (2003): Ritualistic use of livestock bones in the Mongolian belief system and customs. in: Sárközi, Alice & Rákos, Attila (eds.): Altaica Budapestinensia MMII, Proceedings of the 45th permanent international Altaistic conference (PIAC), Budapest, Hungary, June 23-28, 2002, 34-60, Budapest

# Bökönyi, Sandor (1953): Reconstruction des mors en bois et en os. – Acta Archaeologica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae 3, 113-122

# Bradfield, Justin (2015): Pointed bone tool technology in southern Africa: results of use-trace analyses. – Southern African Humanities 27, 1-27
>>> Download: https://www.sahumanities.org/index.php/sah/article/view/339

# Bradfield, Justin (2024): The technology and microwear of the bone tools from Broederstroom, an Early Iron Age site in the Magaliesberg, South Africa. – Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa 59(3), 374-395
>>> DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/0067270X.2024.2346387

# Camps-Fabrer, Henriette (1985): L'Industrie en Os et Bois de Cervidé durant le Néolithique et l’Âge des Métaux 3, Paris 

# Choyke, Alice M. (2010): The Bone is the Beast: Animal Amulets and Ornaments in Power and Magic. in: Campana, Douglas V. / Crabtree, Pam Jean / DeFrance, Susan / Lev-Tov, Justin / Choyke, Alice M. (eds.): Anthropological Approaches to Zooarchaeology: Colonialism, Complexity, and Animal Transformations, 197-209, Oxford  
 
# Gramsch, Bernhard (2018): Mesolithische Knochen- und Geweihartefakte mit intentionellen Ritzungen von Friesack, Fundplatz 4, Lkr. Havelland. – Veröffentlichungen zur brandenburgischen Landesarchäologie 48, 7-54

# Langley, Michelle C. (2023): A Record in Bone: Exploring Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Bone and Tooth Artifacts, Alice Springs (Mparntwe)

# Langley, Michelle C. / Wallis, Lynley A. / Nango, May / Djandjomerr, Djaykuk / Nadjamerrek, Clarrie / Djandjul, Raelene / Gamarrawu, Ruth (2023): Fishhooks, fishing spears, and weaving: The bone technology of Madjedbebe, Northern Australia. – International Jounal of Osteoarchaeology 33(2), 221-234
>>> DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/oa.3201

# McGhee, Robert (1977): Ivory for the Sea Woman: The Symbolic Attributes of a Prehistoric Technology. – Canadian Journal of Archaeology 1, 141-149

# Osipowicz, Grzegorz / Lisowska-Gaczorek, Aleksandra / Bosiak, Mariusz / Grygiel, Ryszard / Szostek, Krzysztof (2025): Identifying Archaeological Bone and Antler and Methods to Soften Them Using Fourier Transform Infrared (FTIR) Spectroscopy: Test Studies. – Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory 32(58)

# Provenzano, Noëlle (2001): Les industries en os et bois de cervidés des Terramares Émiliennes, PhD-thesis Université de Provence, Marseille

# Sidéra, Isabelle (1991): Processus écoomiques, choix technolgiques et culturels dans l'exploitation des faunes protohistoriques des VIe au IVe Millénaires en France Septentrionale. – Revue Archéologique de Picardie 1-2/1991, 3-19
>>> Download: https://www.persee.fr/doc/pica_0752-5656_1991_num_1_1_2953

# van den Dikkenberg, L. & van Gijn, Annelou (2024): Deer ghosts: invisible bone tools from the Vlaardingen Culture (3400-2500 BCE), bone-working, toolkits, and cultural preferences. – Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 56:104569
>>> DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2024.104569
 

 
Best wishes.

Christian

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