<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Dear list members,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">this month’s bonetool is the mystery artefact Marta Blasco Martín sent to the BONETOOLS-list in November 2017, an object made out of a vulture ulna diaphysis provided with a rivet at one of its ends. It is still not clear what the purpose of this object was and Marta still would be glad about any ideas and suggestions. If anybody has any contributions or comparative items, please contact her at <a href="mailto:marta.blasco.martin@gmail.com" class="">marta.blasco.martin@gmail.com</a>.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Marina Kovac’s review about the 12th WBRG-meeting in Granada in the Croatian journal Obajivesti Hrvatskog Arheoloskog Drustva is now referenced on the Grenada meeting page:</div><div class=""><a href="https://www.wbrg.net/meetings/12th-meeting-granada-2017/" class="">https://www.wbrg.net/meetings/12th-meeting-granada-2017/</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">New references:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""># <span class="kapitaelchen">Blasco Martin, Marta / Gallello, Gianni /
Soria-Combadiera, Lucia / Collado Mataix, Eva / Pastor, Agustín / Mata
Parreño, Consuelo </span> (2019): Decoration composition of Iberian Iron
Age ivory artifacts identified by no-destructive chemical analyses. –
Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences, 1-16 </div><div class="">online: <a href="https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12520-018-00775-3" class="">https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12520-018-00775-3</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Shaw Badenhorst offered to upload his 2009 paper on African leather processing to the WBRG page which is nor available for download at the ethnography page.</div><div class=""># Badenhorst, Shaw (2009): An ethnographic and historical overview of hide processing in southern Africa. - Annals of the Transvaal Museum 46, 37-43</div><div class=""><a href="https://www.wbrg.net/ethnography/" class="">https://www.wbrg.net/ethnography/</a></div><div class="">download: <a href="https://www.wbrg.net/wp-content/uploads/Ref_Badenhorst_2009_leather_processing.pdf" class="">https://www.wbrg.net/wp-content/uploads/Ref_Badenhorst_2009_leather_processing.pdf</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">My colleague Natascha Mehler forwarded me an amazing article about the history of domino games, many of which were made of bone or ivory: </div><div class=""><div class="">#
<span class="kapitaelchen">Braun, Ingram </span> (2010): Die Kenntnis
des Dominospiels in Europa: Archäologie, Geschichte, Bibliographie. –
Board Game Studies Journal 10, 61-100</div><div class="">download: <a href="https://content.sciendo.com/view/journals/bgs/10/1/article-p61.xml" class="">https://content.sciendo.com/view/journals/bgs/10/1/article-p61.xml</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">An interesting find of parts of an ivory decorated medieval saddle has been made in Vienna:</div><div class="">#
<span class="kapitaelchen">Tarcsay, Kinga </span> (2018): „Reiten auf Elfenbein“: Ein mittelalterlicher Prunksattel aus Wien, online-publication, Wien </div><div class="">online: <a href="https://stadtarchaeologie.at/start/funde/focus/sattel_herrengasse/" class="">https://stadtarchaeologie.at/start/funde/focus/sattel_herrengasse/</a> </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Best wishes to all of you.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Christian</div><div class=""><div class="">
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