[Bonetools] WBRG website updates July 2026

Tue Jul 7 10:52:02 CEST 2026

Dear WBRG members,

Marta Daróczi-Szabo sent me a request about a medieval artefact found in Hungary, which is now online as bonetool of the month:
https://www.wbrg.net/bonetool-of-the-month-archives/ <https://www.wbrg.net/bonetool-of-the-month-archives/>
Marta would like to request anybody, who has suggestions about the function of the artefact or knows comparative finds to get in touch with her via martidsz at gmail.com <mailto:martidsz at gmail.com>. 

Alice Choyke has submitted a WBRG session proposal for the upcoming ICAZ conference in Vancouver, Canada 2027 (17.–22. May 2027), which has been accepted recently. The session is entitled "The case of the missing waste bone data: Workflow gaps in recognizing hard osseous manufactured material“. The session shall be a brain-storming opportunity with the aim of producing a reference book to help faunal analysts recognize waste bone from manufacturing. We are looking for papers from people who have found solutions to this common problems as well as hearing from specialists who are still wrestling with the problem.
The sessions has its own page on the WBRG website now and is mentioned on the news and meetings pages:
https://www.wbrg.net/meetings/session-at-icaz-2027-vancouver/ <https://www.wbrg.net/meetings/session-at-icaz-2027-vancouver/>
https://www.wbrg.net/meetings/ <https://www.wbrg.net/meetings/>
https://www.wbrg.net/news/ <https://www.wbrg.net/news/>
The ICAZ conference website can be reached here: 
https://sway.cloud.microsoft/BFTVh4FAbfX6td4Y <https://sway.cloud.microsoft/BFTVh4FAbfX6td4Y>

Kinga Winnicka would like to inform us that the session “Prehistoric Textile Tool Kits: From the Baltic to the Mediterranean” held during the conference "The Past has a Future" at the University of Warsaw (13. April 2026) has now been uploaded to the YouTube channel of the Faculty. You can watch the presentations here:
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X8TrASH71NE <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X8TrASH71NE>  
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uvZvEdTvecs <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uvZvEdTvecs>
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSRRQOOpOW8 <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSRRQOOpOW8>

New references in the WBRG reference database, most of which have kindly been added by Henrique Sarmento Pedro this time:

• Baker, Katherine (2023): A Merchant of Ivory in 16th-Century Paris: The Estate Inventory of Chicart Bailly, AVISTA studies in medieval technology, science and art 17, 360, Ankara

• Blasco Martin, Marta (2026): De aquellas astas, estas piezas. Manufactura de cuernas de cérvidos en la cultura ibérica. 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, 209-234, Ciudad de México

• Campini, Ruben (2023): Met at the MET. A Christian Ivory Pyxis Rediscovered in New York. – Convivium 10-2, 100-106
>>> DOI: https://doi.org/10.1484/J.CONVI.5.137633

• David, Éva (2016): The bone pins from Téviec (Morbihan, France) illuminate Mesolithic social organisation. in: Grünberg, Judith M. / Gramsch, Bernhard / Larsson, Lars / Orschiedt, Jörg / Meller, Harald (eds.): Mesolithic burials – Rites, symbols and social organisation of early postglacial communities, Tagungen des Landesmuseums für Vorgeschichte Halle 13/2, 609-628, Halle (Saale)

• Grimes, Kaitlin (2023): Narwhal Ivory as the Arctic Colonial Speciality of the Kingdom of Denmark-Norway. – Journal 18, a journal of eighteenth-century art and culture 16
>>> online: https://www.journal18.org/16-cold/narwhal-ivory-as-the-arctic-colonial-speciality-of-the-kingdom-of-denmark-norway/ <https://www.journal18.org/16-cold/narwhal-ivory-as-the-arctic-colonial-speciality-of-the-kingdom-of-denmark-norway/>

• Lopez-Padilla, Juan Antonio & Martínez Fernádez, G. (2026): Artefactos óseos de la Edad del Cobre en el sureste de la península ibérica (c. 2 800 cal bC). La sepultura de Piedra Ver de Olula (Olula del Río, Almería, España). 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, 183-208, Ciudad de México 

• Petersen, Peter Vang (2016): Papooses in the Mesolithic. A reinterpretation of tooth and snail shell ornaments found in grave 8 at Bøgebakken and other Mesolithic burials. in: Grünberg, Judith M. / Gramsch, Bernhard / Larsson, Lars / Orschiedt, Jörg / Meller, Harald (eds.): Mesolithic burials – Rites, symbols and social organisation of early postglacial communities, Tagungen des Landesmuseums für Vorgeschichte Halle 13/1, 109-124, Halle (Saale)

• Provençalle, Matthieu (2023): Les dieppois, l’Afrique et le commerce des ivoires de la fin du Moyen-Âge au début du XVIIe siècle. in: Saunier, Eric (ed.): Esclavage, mémoires normandes. Les ports normands dans la traite atlantique, 43-49, Milan

• 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

• Rey-Iglesia, Alba / de Jager, Deon / Presslee, Samantha / Qvistgaard, Sarah Skytte / Sindbaek, Soren M / Lorenzen, Eline D. (2023): Antlers far and wide: Biomolecular identification of Scandinavian hair combs from Ribe, Denmark, 720–900 CE. – Journal of Archaeological Science 153
>>> DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2023.105773 <https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2023.105773>

• Rodríguez Martín, F. Germán (2026): La industria ósea de época romana en Avgvsta Emerita. 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, 235-265, Ciudad de México

• Roque, Ana Cristina (2023): Let the Elephants Talk - Exploring Ivory, the Ivory Trade, and Exchange in Southeast Africa and the Indian Ocean World in the Early 16th Century. – Sustainability 15, 1-27
>>> DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/su15129636

• van den Hurk, Youri / Sikström, Fanny / Amkreutz, Luc / Bleasdale, Madeleine / Borvon, Aurélia / Ephrem, Brice / Fernández-Rodríguez, Carlos / Gibbs, Hannah M. B. / Jonsson, Leif / Lehouck, Alexander / Cedeira, Jose Martínez / Meng, Stefan / Monge, Rui / Moreno, Marta / Nabais, Mariana / Nores, Carlos / Pis-Millán, José Antonio / Riddler, Ian D. / Schmölcke, Ulrich / Segschneider, Martin / Speller, Camilla F. / Vretemark, Maria / Wickler, Stephen / Collins, Matthew James / Nadeau, Marie-Josée / Barrett, James H. (2023): The prelude to industrial whaling: identifying the targets of ancient European whaling using zooarchaeology and collagen mass-peptide fingerprinting. – Royal Society Open Science 10-9, 1-16
>>> DOI: https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.230741

Best wishes.

Christian

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