[Bonetools] WBRG website updates August 2026

[Hans Christian Küchelmann]

Dear WBRG members,

this month Ambrosius Pfaff, instrument maker from Locarno, Switzerland, kindly describes the manufacture of a clavichord, a historic Renaissance instrument as bonetool of the month:
https://www.wbrg.net/bonetool-of-the-month-archives/ <https://www.wbrg.net/bonetool-of-the-month-archives/>


This is a reminder that the session "Traceology of bone artefacts: state of the art and research perspectives“ will take place at the Annual Meeting of the European Association of Archaeologists in Athens, Greece, from the 26th to 29th this month:
https://www.wbrg.net/meetings/eaa-athens-2026/


Also, during the conference of the UISPP in Poznań, Poland  from  31. 8. – 4. 9. 2026 a session will be held entitled "Miniature and miniaturisation. Artefactual, technical and symbolic issues in worked material used as tools“:
https://www.wbrg.net/meetings/uispp-2026-poznan/ <https://www.wbrg.net/meetings/uispp-2026-poznan/>

Valerio Punzi has klindly provided us a with a download Link for his thesis
• Punzi, Valerio (2025): From Cetaceans to Artefacts: Whale-Bone Analysis for Understanding Early Coastal Settlements in Iceland and Northern Norway, MA thesis University of Iceland and University of Oslo, Oslo
>>> Download: https://nva.sikt.no/registration/01992d606bc0-65ee7210-fa1e-4fb9-a7e3-c76c1369e25b


New references in the WBRG reference database:

• Allihn, Karen (2026): Eine mittelalterliche Flöte aus Berlin. – Archäologie in Deutschland 4/2026, 74

• Beugnier, Valérie & Maigrot, Yolaine (2005): La fonction des outillages en matières dures animales et en silex au Néolithique final. – Bulletin de la Société préhistorique française 102(2), 335-344

• Choyke, Alice M. / Christie, Annalisa Charlton / Scheinsohn, Vivian / Buc, Natacha (2016): Global Patterns in the Exploitation of Animal-Based Raw Materials: Technological and Socio-cultural Issues, Cuadernos del Instituto Nacional de Antropología y Pensamiento Latinoamericano – Series Especiales 3(2)
>>> Download: http://ppct.caicyt.gov.ar/index.php/cinapl-se/article/view/10058/9083 <http://ppct.caicyt.gov.ar/index.php/cinapl-se/article/view/10058/9083>

• Choyke, Alice M. & Tóth, Zsuzsanna (2023): Worked Bones, Antler, and Tooth in Levels 6–1. in: Vicze, Magdolna & Stig Sørensen, Marie Louise (eds.): Living in a Tell: Memory and Abandonment, Archaeologia Hungarica SAX 4, 201-215

• Cristiani, Emanuela / Zivaljević, Ivana / Boric, Dusan (2014): Residue Analysis and Ornament Suspension Techniques in Prehistory: Cyprinid Pharyngeal Teeth Beads from Late Mesolithic Burials at Vlasac (Serbia). – Journal of Archaeological Science 46, 292-310 

• Gilbert, Catherine / Krupicka, Vaclav / Galluzzi, Francesca / Popowich, Aleksandra / Bathany, Katell / Claverol, Stéphane / Arslanoglu, Julie / Tokarski, Caroline (2024): Species Identification of Ivory and Bone Museum Objects Using Minimally Invasive Proteomics. – Science Advances 10(4)
>>> DOI: https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.adi9028 <https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.adi9028>

• Ifantidis, Fotis & Nikolaidou, Marianna (2011): Spondylus in Prehistory: New Data & Approaches—Contributions to the Archaeology of Shell Technologies, British Archaeological Reports International Series 2216, Oxford

• Langley, Michelle C. (2018): Establishing a Typology for Australian Pointed Bone Implements. – Australian Archaeology 84(2), 164-189
>>> DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/03122417.2018.1509541

• LeMoine, Genevieve M. & Darwent, Christyann M. (1998): The Walrus and the Carpenter: Late Dorset Ivory Working in the High Arctic. – Journal of Archaeological Science 25(1), 78-83

• Morett Alatorre, Luis & Arroyo-Cabrales, Joaquin (2026): Características del depósito y nuevos datos sobre la tecnología ósea pleistocena del yacimiento arqueo-paleontológico de Tocuila, México. in: Blasco Martin, Marta / Christensen, Marianne / Meza, Abigail / Pérez Roldán, Gilberto (eds.): Hueso, asta, diente y marfil vistos desde sus perfiles biológico, tipológico y tecnológico. Una perspectiva iberoamericana, 295-318, Ciudad de México

• Pierce, Elizabeth (2009): Walrus Hunting and the Ivory Trade in Early Iceland. – Archaeologia Islandica 7, 55-63
>>> Download: https://timarit.is/page/6589642?iabr=on#page/n55/mode/2up
 

 
Best wishes.

Christian

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