<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,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">for this months bonetool I chose a couple of Early Modern pocket sundials assembled by Alice Choyke, Ronald Salzer and me.</div><div class=""><a href="https://www.wbrg.net/bonetool-of-the-month-archives/" class="">https://www.wbrg.net/bonetool-of-the-month-archives/</a><br class=""><br class=""><div class="">Sara Wingert, a student at University College Dublin writing a thesis on trick dice, pointed me towards a set of 24 false dice in the collection of the Museum of London. See here for more details: </div><a href="https://collections.museumoflondon.org.uk/online/object/41609.html" class="">https://collections.museumoflondon.org.uk/online/object/41609.html</a><div class=""><a href="https://medievallondon.ace.fordham.edu/collections/show/92" class="">https://medievallondon.ace.fordham.edu/collections/show/92</a></div><div class=""><a href="https://medievallondon.ace.fordham.edu/items/show/278" class="">https://medievallondon.ace.fordham.edu/items/show/278</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div>Einar Einarsson from the Gallery Skák in Reykjavik sent me the attached article about a walrus ivory chess piece found 1895 in the Westfjords in Iceland.<br class=""><br class=""><div class=""><b class="">References</b> added to the database:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""># Mannermaa, Kristiina / Gerasimov, Dimitri / Girya, Evgeny / Sablin, Mikhail V. (2019): Wild Boar (Sus scrofa) Teeth from a Female Burial in Yuzhniy Oleniy Ostrov, Northwestern Russia (c. 6200 cal BC) – Local Rarities or Transported Goods?. – Environmental Archaeology 24(1), 79-90<br class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""># Osipowicz, Grzegorz / Piliciauskas, Gytis / Piličiauskienė, Giedrė / Bosiak, Mariusz (2019): “Seal scrapers” from Šventoji – In search of their possible function. – Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 27<br class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Another 12th century ivory chess piece has recently been found in the castle Tannenberg near Darmstadt, Germany<br class=""># Becker, Thomas (2019): Schach auf der Burg. – Archäologie in Deutschland 2/2019, 56</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""># Hermann, Michaela (2015): Mobile Zeitmessung im Jahr 1527. Eine Klappsonnenuhr, gefunden in Augsburg. – Denkmalpflege Informationen 161, 20-23 </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""># Kaltenberger, Alice (2003): Eine datierte Taschensonnenuhr von der Ruine Wildenstein bei Bad Ischl, Oberösterreich. – Beiträge zur Mittelalterarchäologie in Österreich Beiheft 6, 29-43</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I recently found some older publications related to the German Ivory Museum in Erbach:<br class=""># Dinger, Brigitte (1994): Elfenbein - Kreativer mystischer Werkstoff. Einführung in die Geschichte der Elfenbeinkunst, Erbach<br class=""><br class=""># Gaborit-Chopin, Danielle (1978): Elfenbeinkunst im Mittelalter, Berlin<br class=""><br class=""># Hegemann, Hans-Werner (1988): Das Elfenbein in Kunst und Kultur Europas. Ein Überblick von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart, Mainz<br class=""><br class=""># Theuerkauff, Christian (1986): Nachmittelalterliche Elfenbeine. Die Bildwerke in Elfenbein des 16.-19. Jahrhunderts, Berlin</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Best wishes.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Christian<br class=""><div class="">-- <br class="">Knochenarbeit <br class=""><br class="">Hans Christian Küchelmann <br class=""><br class="">Speicherhof 4, D-28217 Bremen, Germany <br class="">tel: +49 - 421 - 61 99 177<br class="">mail: info@knochenarbeit.de <br class="">web: http://www.knochenarbeit.de<br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class=""></div></div></div></div></div></body></html>