[Bonetools] WBRG website updates June 2026

Fri Jun 5 17:10:23 CEST 2026

Dear WBRG members,

This month Gabriela Bravo kindly contributed another Inca artefact from Chile as bonetool of the month, this time some examples of decorated spindle whorls:
https://www.wbrg.net/bonetool-of-the-month-archives/ <https://www.wbrg.net/bonetool-of-the-month-archives/>

The 16th Meeting of the WBRG in Osmaniye, Turkey has been rescheduled and postponed from October to the 23rd to 28th of November 2026. The first call for papers is now published on the respective pages at
https://www.wbrg.net/meetings/16th-meeting-osmaniye/
https://www.wbrg.net/meetings/
https://www.wbrg.net/news/
The call is also attached to this mail once more (see below).

The online symposium "Worked Shells in the ancient world. Material, use, typology, chronology and contexts has been held on the 20th of May in Izmir. The related page on the WBRG website has been updated with the conference poster, the final 3rd circular, program, abstracts and publication information: 
https://www.wbrg.net/meetings/symposium-2026-izmir/ <https://www.wbrg.net/meetings/symposium-2026-izmir/>

Grzegorz Osipowicz and Justyna Orłowska would like to announce that the website for the 17th WBRG meeting to be held in May 2028 at the the Faculty of History, Nicolaus Copernicus University <https://www.wnh.umk.pl/en/faculty/about-us/> in Toruń, Poland, is now online including the conference poster:
https://wbrg2028.umk.pl/
The conference is also announced on the WBRG website at
https://www.wbrg.net/meetings/17th-meeting-torun-2028/
https://www.wbrg.net/meetings/
https://www.wbrg.net/news/

Sebastian Muñoz and Mariana Mondini sent me links to web pages of the Museo de Antropología at the Universidad Nacional de Cordoba in Argentina concerned with the Taba game.
Website Museo de Anthropologia <https://museoantropologia.unc.edu.ar/2026/05/pieza-tabas/?fbclid=IwdGRzaARrMHdjbGNrBGswbGV4dG4DYWVtAjExAHNydGMGYXBwX2lkDDM1MDY4NTUzMTcyOAABHiY67EnwePP7D5SOMbX8sxsCTzampqzbsPq66wgCsAtl3-DuFFjv609HRjzV_aem_A1S8vbshARAjvwN6Kin68w&utm_id=97758_v0_s00_e0_tv2_a1demo0e5x6hqi&sfnsn=scwspmo>
Facebook <https://www.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=1434041078753022&id=100064414311114&rdid=E2u5EjxhKULSTZJv>
Taba gaming pieces are exhibit of the month at present. These are now added to the News page:
https://www.wbrg.net/news/
Taba gaming pieces were bonetools of the month in June 2016:
https://www.wbrg.net/bonetool-of-the-month-archives/bonetool-archives-2016/

New references in the WBRG reference database:

# Arrighi, Simona / Moretti, Erika / Rossini, Matteo / Crezzini, Jacopo / Ricci, Stefano / Ronchitelli, A. / Boschin, F. (2026): A Swan on the Water? Technical Execution and Graphic Strategy in an Epigravettian Portable Art Object from Grotta Paglicci. – Heritage 9(5)188
>>> DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/heritage9050188

# Bianchi, Chiara & Laflı, Ergün (2026): Two “Alexandrian” counters from western Turkey. – Journal of Ancient Civilizations 41(1), 71-86

# Brown, Andrew D. (2011): An Exploration of Turtle Shell Rattle Manufacture in the Mississippian Period, Machelor thesis Middle Tennessee State University, Murfreesboro, Tennessee

# Evora, Marina (2026): A gestão do risco e da incerteza no sul da Península Ibérica durante o Paleolítico Superior, sob a perspectiva da indústria ósea. 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, 121-147, Ciudad de México

# Marra, Fabrizio / Santaniello, Fabio / Grimaldi, Stefano (2025): Tools on shell at Moscerini Cave (central Italy) and MIS 5 sea level highstands: a critical insight into the modern behavior of a non-sapiens human species. – Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences 17(86)
>>> DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12520-025-02200-y <https://doi.org/10.1007/s12520-025-02200-y>

# Pascual Benito, Josep Lluís (2026): La industria ósea del Neolítico antiguo de la península 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, 149-182, Ciudad de México

# Romagnoli, Francesca / Martini, Fabio / Sarti, Lucia (2015): Neanderthal Use of Callista chione Shells as Raw Material for Retouched Tools in South-east Italy: Analysis of Grotta del Cavallo Layer L Assemblage with a New Methodology. – Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory 22, 1007-1037
>>> DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10816-014-9215-x <https://doi.org/10.1007/s10816-014-9215-x>

# Seespeck, J. (2026): Seltene römische Tierfibeln. – Archäologie in Deutschland 3/2026, 63

# Specht, O. (2026): Renaissancezeitliches Jagdaccessoire. – Archäologie in Deutschland 3/2026, 54

# Tejero, José-Miguel / Erostarbe-Tome, Asier / Borao Álvarez, María Isabel (2026): La explotación técnica de las materias óseas a lo largo del Paleolítico superior en la península 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, 77-119, Ciudad de México 

Best wishes.

Christian

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