[Bonetools] WBRG website updates September 2026

Tue Sep 8 15:10:09 CEST 2026

Dear WBRG members,

this month the bonetool of the month is provided by Xenia Pop, who presents the elk antler quiver from Romania she introduced to us already on the 15th WBRG meeting in Paris in May 2024, which has just been published (see below):
https://www.wbrg.net/bonetool-of-the-month-archives/ <https://www.wbrg.net/bonetool-of-the-month-archives/>

Mid of August Marianne Christensen and Nejma Goutas have published the proceedings of the 15th WBRG meeting in Paris 2024:
• Christensen, Marianne & Goutas, Nejma (2026): Bone, Tools, and Traditions. 15th WBRG meeting Paris, May 13-17, 2024, Séances de la Société préhistorique française 24, Paris
> download complete volume: https://www.prehistoire.org/515_p_58681/accEs-libre-seance-24-bone-tools-and-traditions.html
> download individual papers: https://www.prehistoire.org/offres/doc_inline_src/515/SPF-WBRG_Volume_complet_et_couv_BD_corr2.pdf
This is now mentioned on the respective pages:
https://www.wbrg.net/meetings/15th-meeting-paris-2024/
https://www.wbrg.net/about/

I have so far added approximately half of the individual papers to the reference database and to the meeting page:

• O'Connor, Sonia: Raw materials identifications: Developments and limits
> download: https://www.prehistoire.org/offres/doc_inline_src/515/SPF%2B-%2BWBRG-%2B02%2BOConnor%2BV003%2BBAT%2BCOR1%2BBD.pdf

• Gates St-Pierre, Christian & Labonté, Jessica: Of beaver teeth and human hair: A tale of two experiments in usewear analysis. 
> download: https://www.prehistoire.org/offres/doc_inline_src/515/SPF%2B-%2BWBRG-%2B03%2BGates%2BSt-Pierre%2BV003%2BBAT%2BBD.pdf

• Luciañèz-Triviño, Miriam & Liesau von Lettow Vorbeck, Corina: Ivory segmentation procedures with copper-based tools: Archaeological and experimental evidence.
> download: https://www.prehistoire.org/offres/doc_inline_src/515/SPF%2B-%2BWBRG-%2B04%2BLuciaF1ez%2BTriviF1o%2BV003%2BBAT%2BBD.pdf

• Müller, Hildegard / Wojtczak, Dorota / Reynaud Savioz, Nicole / Schenk, Aurélie: Sledge runners or tools? Experimental and micro-wear approaches in the study of a curious assemblage of abraded hemi-mandibles of the Late Iron Age site “La Brocante” in Avenches (Switzerland). 
> download: https://www.prehistoire.org/offres/doc_inline_src/515/SPF%2B-%2BWBRG-%2B05%2BMFCller%2Bet%2Bal%2BV003%2BBAT%2BBD.pdf

• Ferras, Mélanie: Flat and twisting chains: An analysis of the articulation systems of the bone pins from Chavín de Huántar (1200–500 BCE), Ancash (Peru).
> download: https://www.prehistoire.org/offres/doc_inline_src/515/SPF%2B-%2BWBRG-%2B06%2BFerras%2BV003%2BBAT%2BBD.pdf

• Borao Álvarez, María Isabel / Galán Lopez, Ana Belén / Malgarini, Romain / Pétillon, Jean-Marc: Badegoulian eyed needles: New data on morphometric and technology from the rockshelters of Fritsch and Cuzoul de Vers, a synthesis. 
> download: https://www.prehistoire.org/offres/doc_inline_src/515/SPF%2B-%2BWBRG-%2B07%2BBorao%2BC1lvarez%2Bet%2Bal%2BV003%2BBAT%2BBD.pdf

• Buc, Natacha / Acosta, Alejandro A. / Rombolá, Lucía T. / Hilsden, Jay / Paskulin, Lindsey / Carbonera, Mirian / Schneider, Fernanda / Loponte, Daniel / Speller, Camilla F.: Morphological and material variability in bone harpoon heads and stemmed points from the Lower Paraná Basin (Argentina) in the Late Holocene.
>download: https://www.prehistoire.org/offres/doc_inline_src/515/SPF%2B-%2BWBRG-%2B08%2BBuc%2Bet%2Bal%2BV003%2BBAT%2BBD.pdf

• Blasco Martin, Marta: A synthetic review of the evolution of hard animal material crafts in a Mediterranean city: Valencia from its bones.
> download: https://www.prehistoire.org/offres/doc_inline_src/515/SPF%2B-%2BWBRG-%2B09%2BBlasco%2BMartEDn%2BV003%2BBAT%2BBD.pdf

• Mărgărit, Monica & Mirea, Pavel: Neolithisation of the Lower Danube as reflected by the osseous industry. Case study: Măgura “Buduiasca” settlement (Romania).
> download: https://www.prehistoire.org/offres/doc_inline_src/515/SPF%2B-%2BWBRG-%2B10%2BMrgrit%2B26%2BMirea%2BV003%2BBAT%2BBD.pdf

• Tapia, Jesús / Cerezo-Fernández, Rosana / Portero, Rodrigo / Cueto, Marian / Jordá Pardo, Jesús Francisco / Àlvarez-Fernández, Esteban: Bone industry management in the Upper Paleolithic occupations at El Cierro Cave (Ribadesella, Asturias, Spain).
> download: https://www.prehistoire.org/offres/doc_inline_src/515/SPF%2B-%2BWBRG-%2B11%2BTapia%2Bet%2Bal%2BV003%2BBAT.pdf

• Greenfield, Haskel J.: “It’s the pit’s”: Human-modified animal bone from an Early Neolithic pithouse settlement (Blagotin) in central Serbia.
> download: https://www.prehistoire.org/offres/doc_inline_src/515/SPF%2B-%2BWBRG-%2B12%2BGreenfield%2BV003%2BBAT%2BBD.pdf

• Vitezović, Selena: Bone manufacturing in the Late Neolithic of the Thrace region. 
> download: https://www.prehistoire.org/offres/doc_inline_src/515/SPF%2B-%2BWBRG-%2B13%2BVitezovi%2BV003%2BBAT%2BBD.pdf

• Gál, Erika / Osztas, A. / Kreiter, Attila / Elöd Aradi, László / Vindus, Melinda: An unusual toolset from Late Neolithic – Early Copper Age graves in Hungary: Preliminary results. 
> download: https://www.prehistoire.org/offres/doc_inline_src/515/SPF%2B-%2BWBRG-%2B14%2BGE1l%2Bet%2Bal%2BV003%2BBAT%2BBD.pdf

• Zidarov, Petar & Mitkova, Rositsa: Barbed points and harpoons from Chalcolithic sites (ca 4500–4350 BC) in Upper Thrace and the Western Black Sea coast in Bulgaria.
> download: https://www.prehistoire.org/offres/doc_inline_src/515/SPF%2B-%2BWBRG-%2B15%2BZidarov%2BV003%2BBAT%2BBD.pdf

• Vinayak, Ossiferous (2026): Worked osseous assemblage from Iron Age site of Indor Khera, Upper Ganga Plains (India).
> download: https://www.prehistoire.org/offres/doc_inline_src/515/SPF%2B-%2BWBRG-%2B16%2BVinayak%2BV003%2BBAT%2BBD.pdf

• Sarmento Pedro, Henrique: The 13th century: A major economic turning point for craftspeople working with hard animal materials in Western France. 
> download: https://www.prehistoire.org/offres/doc_inline_src/515/SPF%2B-%2BWBRG-%2B17%2BSarmento%2BPedro%2BV003%2BBAT%2BBD.pdf

• Koldžić, Vuk: Bone working in the Vinča culture: Specialised or not?.  
> download: https://www.prehistoire.org/offres/doc_inline_src/515/SPF%2B-%2BWBRG-%2B18%2BKoldi%2BV003%2BBAT%2BBD.pdf

• Pop, Xenia & Virag, Cristian: A glimpse of the Eneolithic afterlife. Burial M30 from Urziceni-Vamă, Romania.
> download: https://www.prehistoire.org/offres/doc_inline_src/515/SPF%2B-%2BWBRG-%2B29%2BPop%2B26%2BVirag%2BV003%2BBAT%2BBD.pdf

Apart from the papers in the new WBRG volume only a few new references have been added to the WBRG reference database this month:

• Isaac, Glynn (1983): Bones in contention: competing explanations for the juxtaposition of Early Pleistocene artifacts and faunal remains. in: Clutton-Brock, Juliet & Grigson, Caroline (eds.): Animals and Archaeology: 1. Hunters and Their Prey, British Archaeological Reports International Series 163, 3-19, Oxford

• Morgan, Ron (1979): An Account of the Discovery of a Whale-Bone House on San Nicolas Island. – Journal of California and Great Basin Anthropology 1(1), 171-177
> Download: https://escholarship.org/uc/item/48z0m0t6 <https://escholarship.org/uc/item/48z0m0t6>

• Osipowicz, Grzegorz / Orlowska, Justyna / Bosiak, Mariusz / Zagorska, Ilga / Cziesko, Mieczysław / Szczepanski, Zbigniew (2026): Ceremonial Tools or Just Hunting Weapons? A Multidisciplinary Approach to Mesolithic Inlaid Osseous Points from Lake Lubans, Latvia. – Heritage 9(8), 1-26
> DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/heritage9080325 <https://doi.org/10.3390/heritage9080325>

• Pétillon, Jean-Marc / Tartar, Élise / van der Sluis, Laura G. / McGrath, Krista / Agudo, L. / Torres-Iglesias, Leire / Marín-Arroyo, Ana B. / Normand, Christian / Speller, Camilla F. / Zazzo, Antoine / Lefebvre, Alexandre (2026): The Elephant in the Room: The Use of Mammoth Bones for the Manufacture of Objects in the Upper Paleolithic of Southwestern France. – Heritage 9(8), 1-18
> DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/heritage9080330 <https://doi.org/10.3390/heritage9080330>

• Shen, Jie / Fan, Wenquan / Yu, Jie (2026): Worked and Working Bones—Wild Resource Use in an Agricultural Neolithic Community at Miaodigou Site, China. – Heritage 9(8), 1-27
>DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/heritage9080319 <https://doi.org/10.3390/heritage9080319>

Best wishes.

Christian

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