[Bonetools] WBRG website updates March 2026

Tue Mar 3 00:43:22 CET 2026

Dear WBRG members,

I am glad to see that the amount of contributions from outside of Europe are increasing steadily. This month's bonetool is a dagger from New Guinea made of cassowary bone. It was part of a presentation of my student Bernard Hoffmann at Hamburg University, who kindly assembled this blog from published sources:
https://www.wbrg.net/bonetool-of-the-month-archives/ <https://www.wbrg.net/bonetool-of-the-month-archives/>

Marianne Christensen, Marta Blasco Martin, Abigail Meza and Giblerto Pérez Roldán would like to announce another major edited volume on bonetools from Iberia, Meso- and South America  entitled "Hueso, asta, diente y marfil vistos desde sus perfiles biológico, tipológico y tecnológico. Una perspectiva iberoamericana" (Blasco Martin et al. 2026). The volume can be downloaded from the website of the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (see link below).
https://www.wbrg.net/biblio-detail?id=5170 <https://www.wbrg.net/biblio-detail?id=5170>
https://www.wbrg.net/news/ <https://www.wbrg.net/news/>

Prior to the existence of the Worked Bone Research Group a session entitled Bone Tools Manufacture and Use“ has been organised by Alice Choyke at the ICAZ conference in Washington in May 1990. Thanks to Alice Choyke,  Daniella Bar-Yosef, Nerissa Russell and Jörg Schibler, who searched their cupboards for these 36 years old information I could add a page with information about this meeting to the WBRG website:
https://www.wbrg.net/meetings/session-at-icaz-1990-washington/ <https://www.wbrg.net/meetings/session-at-icaz-1990-washington/>

New references in WBRG reference database:

# Blasco Martin, Marta / Christensen, Marianne / Meza, Abigail / Pérez Roldán, Gilberto (2026): Hueso, asta, diente y marfil vistos desde sus perfiles biológico, tipológico y tecnológico. Una perspectiva iberoamericana, Ciudad de México
>>> ISBN 978-607-642-350-9
>>> Download: https://editorialiia.unam.mx/omp/index.php/publicaciones/catalog/view/hueso_asta_diente_marfil/239/526

# Dominy, Nathaniel J. / Mills, Samuel T. / Yakacki, Christopher M. / Roscoe, Paul B. / Carpenter, R. Dana (2018): New Guinea bone daggers were engineered to preserve social prestige. – Royal Society Open Science 5(4): 172067
>>> DOI: https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.172067

# Greep, Stephen J. (1982): Two Early Roman Handles from the Walbrook, London. – Archaeological Journal 139, 91-100
>>> Download <https://www.academia.edu/115120175/Two_Early_Roman_Handles_from_the_Walbrook_London_>

# Greep, Stephen J. (1983): Two Roman Ivories from Greenwich Park, London. – Transactions of the London and Middlesex Archaeological Society 34, 61-65
>>> Download <https://www.academia.edu/115120076/Two_Roman_Ivories_from_Greenwich_Park_London_>

# Greep, Stephen J. (1983): Early import of bone objects to south-east Britain. – Britannia 14, 259-261
>>> Download <https://www.academia.edu/115544960/Early_Import_of_bone_objects_to_South_eastern_Britain>

# Greep, Stephen J. (2023): Bone Spindle. in: Morris, Francis M. & Biddle, Martin (eds.): Venta Belgarum. Prehistoric, Roman, and Post-Roman Winchester, Winchester Studies 3.1, 743-744, 746, Oxford 
>>> Download <https://www.academia.edu/129379353/Objects_of_bone_antler_and_ivory_from_Roman_Winchester> 

# Greep, Stephen J. (2023): Bone Pendant. in: Morris, Francis M. & Biddle, Martin (eds.): Venta Belgarum. Prehistoric, Roman, and Post-Roman Winchester, Winchester Studies 3.1, 961-962, Oxford 
>>> Download <https://www.academia.edu/129379353/Objects_of_bone_antler_and_ivory_from_Roman_Winchester> 

# Greep, Stephen J. (2023): Bone and Antler Hair Pins. in: Morris, Francis M. & Biddle, Martin (eds.): Venta Belgarum. Prehistoric, Roman, and Post-Roman Winchester, Winchester Studies 3.1, 965-977, Oxford  
>>> Download <https://www.academia.edu/129379353/Objects_of_bone_antler_and_ivory_from_Roman_Winchester> 

# Greep, Stephen J. (2023): Gaming Equipment. in: Morris, Francis M. & Biddle, Martin (eds.): Venta Belgarum. Prehistoric, Roman, and Post-Roman Winchester, Winchester Studies 3.1, 992-1000, Oxford  
>>> Download <https://www.academia.edu/129379353/Objects_of_bone_antler_and_ivory_from_Roman_Winchester> 

# Greep, Stephen J. (2023): Bone Needles. in: Morris, Francis M. & Biddle, Martin (eds.): Venta Belgarum. Prehistoric, Roman, and Post-Roman Winchester, Winchester Studies 3.1, 1024-1026, Oxford
 >>> Download <https://www.academia.edu/129379353/Objects_of_bone_antler_and_ivory_from_Roman_Winchester> 

# Greep, Stephen J. (2023): Bone Furniture Fittings. in: Morris, Francis M. & Biddle, Martin (eds.): Venta Belgarum. Prehistoric, Roman, and Post-Roman Winchester, Winchester Studies 3.1, 1120-1122, Oxford 
 >>> Download <https://www.academia.edu/129379353/Objects_of_bone_antler_and_ivory_from_Roman_Winchester>  

# Manning, W. H. & Greep, Stephen J. (2023): Styli. in: Morris, Francis M. & Biddle, Martin (eds.): Venta Belgarum. Prehistoric, Roman, and Post-Roman Winchester, Winchester Studies 3.1, 1008-1010, Oxford 
>>> Download <https://www.academia.edu/129379353/Objects_of_bone_antler_and_ivory_from_Roman_Winchester> 

# Manning, W. H. / Greep, Stephen J. / Webster, Janet / MacGregor, Arthur G. (2023): Knives and Knife Handles. in: Morris, Francis M. & Biddle, Martin (eds.): Venta Belgarum. Prehistoric, Roman, and Post-Roman Winchester, Winchester Studies 3.1, 1032-1033, Oxford  
>>> Download <https://www.academia.edu/129379353/Objects_of_bone_antler_and_ivory_from_Roman_Winchester> 

# McGrath, Krista / Kuss da Silveira Montes, Tatiane Andaluzia / Fossile, Thiago / da Rocha Bandeira, Dione / Mara Borba, Fernanda / Cremer, Marta J. / van der Sluis, Laura / Higham, Thomas / Klahold Rosa, Ana Paula / Saña, Maria / Colonese, André Carlo (2026): Molecular and zooarchaeological identification of 5000 year old whale-bone harpoons in coastal Brazil. – Nature Communications 17, 48
>>> DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-67530-w

# Tsang, Roxanne / Katuk, Sebastien / May, Sally K. / Taçon, Paul S. C. / Ricaut, François-Xavier / Leavesley, Matthew G. (2022): Rock Art and (Re)Production of Narratives: A Cassowary Bone  Dagger Stencil Perspective from Auwim, East Sepik, Papua New Guinea. – Cambridge Archaeological Journal 32(4), 547-565
>>> DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0959774322000026

With kind regards.

Christian

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