[Bonetools] WBRG website updates January 2026

[Hans Christian Küchelmann]

Dear WBRG members,


This month's bonetool is a strange puzzle piece like object found on the banks of the river Thames. 
https://www.wbrg.net/bonetool-of-the-month-archives/ <https://www.wbrg.net/bonetool-of-the-month-archives/>
It has been sent to us by Walter (Jo) Ahmet in 2020, whose mail address is unfortunately not valid anymore. If anyone has still contact to Walter, please forward this information to him and request him to get in touch with me.


Ergün Laflı sent a first call and a preliminary program for the conference Worked Shells in the ancient world. Material, use, typology, chronology and contexts, to be held on the 20th of May 2026 in Izmir, Turkey. The conference has an own page now, where this information can be downloaded:
https://www.wbrg.net/meetings/symposium-2026-izmir/


New references:

# Ashby, Steven Paul (2006): Time, Trade and Identity: Bone and Antler Combs in Northern Britain c. AD 700-1400, PhD Thesis University of York, York

# Biddle, M. (1990): Toilet Equipment: Combs of Horn and Bone. in: Biddle, M. (ed.): Object and Economy in Medieval Winchester ii, Winchester Studies 7ii, Artefacts from Medieval Winchester, 678-690, Oxford

# Cantillo-Duarte, J. J. / Weniger, Gerd-Christian / Cantalejo, P. / Domínguez-Bella, S. / Otto, T. / Rotgänger, M. / Kehl, M. / Fernández-Sánchez, D. / Tafelmaier, Y. / Vijande-Vila, E. / Becerra-Martín, S. / Gómez-Sánchez, L. / Ramos-Muñoz, J. (2025): Molluscs as Personal Adornment in a Gravettian Context from Cueva de Ardales (Málaga, Spain). – Environmental Archaeology 30(3), 245-266
>>> DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/14614103.2023.2218126 <https://doi.org/10.1080/14614103.2023.2218126>

# Cotton, J. (2001): Bibliography of Sets of Gaming Counters. – Lucerna 22, 12-13

# Dunlevy, M. M. (1988): A classification of early Irish combs. – Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy 88(C11), 341-422

# Flodin, L. (1989): Kammakeriet i Trondheim ca. 1000-1600, Trondheim

# Greep, Stephen J. (2023): Objects of bone and antler. in: Morris, F. M. & Biddle, M. (eds.): Venta Belgarum. Prehistoric, Roman, and Post-Roman Winchester, 944

# Hills, C. (1981): Barred Zoomorphic Combs of the Migration Period. in: Evison, V. I. (ed.): Angles, Saxons, and Jutes: Essays Presented to J.N.L. Myres, 96-111, Oxford

# Hodges, R. (1980): Dark Age handled combs: A Note. – Archaeologia Atlantica 3, 145-146  

# Kurnatowska, Zofia (1977): Horn-Working in Medieval Poland. in: Gerevich, Laszlo (ed.): La Formation et le developpement des métiers au Moyen Âge (Ve–XIVe siècles), 121-125, Budapest

# MacGregor, Arthur G. (1975): Barred Combs of Frisian Type in England. – Medieval Archaeology 19, 195-198

# Tuohy, Tina (1999): Prehistoric Combs of Antler and Bone, British Archaeological Reports British Series 285, Oxford

# Wiberg, T. (1987): Kammer. in: Schia, E. (ed.): De Arkeologiske utgravninger i Gamlebyen, Oslo Bind 3, Vol 3, 202-208 

 
Best wishes and a happy new year to everybody.

Christian

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