[Bonetools] Call for papers ICAZ 2027, Vancouver

[Alice Choyke]

Dear Colleagues,
      The call for paper abstracts is now open for ICAZ 2027 in Vancouver (
https://sway.cloud.microsoft/BFTVh4FAbfX6td4Y?ref=Link) for a worked bone
session at the conference: "The Case of the Missing Waste BoneData:
Workflow Gaps in Recognizing Hard Osseous Manufacture Material". The
session details are copied below.
      This session is aimed at very practical problems generally faced by
bone tool specialists and faunal analysts  around the world - discontinuous
workflow problems that disrupt mutual communications and information
between the two groups of specialists. I would like to invite oral
presentations and posters dealing with this subject both from colleagues
who have worked to resolve these problems as well as from the many
specialists who still struggle with missing manufacturing waste data as
well as other important issues connected with the way finds from 'small
find collections' and finds from faunal analyst collections or worked
material are often separated or not recognized by faunal analysts. The plan
is to publish papers from this session but also to invite papers from
anyone who cannot attend the meeting in-person. Down the road, I want to
*collaboratively* produce an open source, on-line reference manual that
will allow zooarchaeologists to understand general and basic identification
principles for manufacturing waste from all types of hard osseous/shell
materials as well as their  regional and temporal variants, work that can
be expanded as the data corpus grows.

Alice Choyke

SESSION 31. The Case of the Missing Waste Bone Data: Workflow Gaps in
Recognizing Hard Osseous Manufactured Material

SESSION TYPE: In-Person

ORGANIZERS: Alice Choyke, Central European University (choyke at gmail.com)

ABSTRACT: This session concerns improved cooperation between bone tool
specialists and faunal analysts. The goal is to create an open-source,
downloadable, digital identification book of bone fragments associated with
manufacturing activities as well as very fragmented pieces of worked bone.
What constitutes worked bone and manufacturing wear will differ
significantly depending on geographical location, time-period and
complexity of production.

These two groups of specialists should work together in an organic fashion.
However, although there are institutions where they do cooperate regularly,
the reality is that financial and time constraints often make cooperation
difficult. Debris from manufacturing or special use can be very difficult
to recognize, especially for fragmented objects. Such specimens also need
to be identified and separated out for further analysis.

The aim of the session is also to generate protocols reflecting what both
groups of specialists would be interested in adding to their research
repertoire and exploring different possibilities of transmitting basic
know- how between these two related fields.

Areas to cover:

1. Recognition/identification of waste and worked hard osseous material.

a. Types of tool marks associated with bone tool reduction

b. Distinguishing manufacturing and use wear marks from butchery marks and
taphonomic damage

c. The best way to disseminate this information and be of most practical
use to faunal analysts?

2. Basic information that should be recorded about worked bone in faunal
samples?

3. Non-integration in storage of “small finds” and objects found in the
faunal assemblage.

4. Integrating the study of worked hard osseous material into
zooarchaeology courses.
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