<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=""><div dir="auto" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><div class="">Dear list members,</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">there were quite an amount of updates this month, that’s why I am a bit late with my monthly updates. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">This month’s bonetool is a strange, but elaborately worked, mystery artefact from 12th century Novgorod. It has been sent to the bonetool list by James Barrett in August 2016. James is still interested in comparative items. If you are aware of anything similar, please contact James at <a href="mailto:jhb41@cam.ac.uk" class="">jhb41@cam.ac.uk</a> (with CC to the list preferably).</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">The page for the recent 13th meeting in Montreal has been updated with the conference announcement in the ICAZ Newsletter, the conference programme, information about the proceedings and some conference pictures. See: <a href="https://www.wbrg.net/meetings/13th-meeting-montreal-2019" class="">https://www.wbrg.net/meetings/13th-meeting-montreal-2019</a>.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">The upcoming meetings in Johannisburg 2021 and Delft 2023 are announced on the website and Justin Bradfield just informed me that the website for the 2021 conference is in progress. I will add information to the website as soon as he sends me anything.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><b class="">New references</b> in the database:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div># Barrett, James / Boessenkool, Sanne / Kneale, Catherine J. / O'Connell, T. C. / Star, Bastiaan (2020): Ecological globalisation, serial depletion and the medieval trade of walrus rostra. – Quaternary Science Reviews 229<br class=""><br class=""># Davidan, Olga Ivanova (1992): Kunsthandwerkliche Gegenstände des 8. bis 10. Jahrhunderts aus Alt-Ladoga (Die Sammlung der Staatlichen Eremitage in St. Petersburg). – Zeitschrift für Archäologie des Mittelalters 20, 5-61<br class=""><br class=""># Kind, Claus-Joachim (2011): Urgeschichtliches Puzzlespiel – der Löwenmensch vom Hohlenstein. – Archäologie in Deutschland 4/2011, 38<br class=""><br class="">The 16 Articles of the volume <br class=""># Hutson, Jarod M. / Garcia-Morena, Alejandro / Noack, Elisabeth S. / Turner, Elaine / Villaluenga, Aritza / Gaudzinski-Windheuser, Sabine (eds.): The Origins of Bone Tool Technologies, Römisch-Germanisches Zentralmuseum Tagungen, 33-51, Mainz<br class="">are now included in the database<br class=""><br class=""><div class=""># Davidson, Iain (2018): Touching language origins again: how worked bone shaped our understanding.</div><div class=""># Mozota, Millán (2018): Experimental programmes with retouchers: where do we stand and where do we go now?</div><div class=""># Hutson, Jarod M. / Villaluenga, Aritza / Garcia-Morena, Alejandro / Turner, Elaine / Gaudzinski-Windheuser, Sabine (2018): On the use of metapodials as tools at Schöningen 13II-4.<br class=""></div># Rosell, Jordi / Blasco, Ruth / Martin-Lerma, Ignacio / Barkai, Ran / Gopher, Avi (2018): When discarded bones became important: new bone retouchers from the lower sequence of Qesem Cave, Israel (ca. 300-420 ka).</div><div dir="auto" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"># Daujeard, Camille / Valensi, Patricia / Fiore, Ivana / Moigne, Anne-Marie / Tagliacozzo, Antonio / Moncel, Marie-Hélène / Santagata, Carmen / Cauche, Dominique / Raynal, Jean-Paul (2018): A reappraisal of Lower to Middle Palaeolithic bone retouchers from southeastern France (MIS 11 to 3).</div><div dir="auto" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"># Sévêque, Noémie & Auguste, Patrick (2018): From west to east: Lower and Middle Palaeolithic bone retouchers in northern France.</div><div dir="auto" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"># Costamagno, Sandrine / Bourguignon, Laurence / Soulier, Marie-Cécile / Meignen, Liliane / Beauval, Cédric / Rendu, William / Mussini, Célimène / Mann, Alan / Maureille, Bruno (2018): Bone retouchers and site function in the Quina Mousterian: the case of Les Pradelles (Marillac-le-Franc, France).</div><div dir="auto" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"># Abrams, Grégory (2018): Palaeolithic bone retouchers from Belgium: a preliminary overview of the recent research through historic and recently excavated bone collections.</div><div dir="auto" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"># Neruda, Petr & Laznickova-Galetova, Martina (2018): Retouchers from mammoth tusks in the Middle Palaeolithic: a case study from Kůlna Cave layer 7a1 (Czech Republic).</div><div dir="auto" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"># Thun Hohenstein, Ursula / Bertolini, Marco / Channarapayatna, Sharada / Modolo, Marta / Peretto, Carlo (2018): Bone retouchers from two north Italian Middle Palaeolithic sites: Riparo Tagliente and Grotta della Ghiacciaia, Verona.</div><div dir="auto" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"># Toniato, Giulia / Münzel, Susanne C. / Starkovich, Britt M. / Conard, Nicholas J. (2018): Middle to Upper Palaeolithic bone retouchers from the Swabian Jura: raw materials, curation and use.</div><div dir="auto" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;">#Jéquier, Camille / Livraghi, Alessandra / Romandini, Matteo / Peresani, Marco (2018): Same but different: 20,000 years of bone retouchers from northern Italy. A diachronologic approach from Neanderthals to anatomically modern humans.</div><div dir="auto" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"># Yeshurun, Reuven / Tejero, José-Miguel / Barzilai, Omry / Hershkovitz, Israel / MarderOfer, (2018): Upper Palaeolithic bone retouchers from Manot Cave (Israel): a preliminary analysis of an (as yet) rare phenomenon in the Levant.</div><div dir="auto" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"># Vitezović, Selena (2018): Retouching tools from the post-Palaeolithic period in southeast Europe.</div><div dir="auto" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"># Hutson, Jarod M. / García-Morena, Alejandro / Noack, Elisabeth S. / Villaluenga, Aritza / Gaudzinski-Windheuser, Sabine (2018): The origins of bone tool technologies: conclusions and future directions.</div><div dir="auto" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><br class=""></div><div dir="auto" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><br class=""></div><div dir="auto" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;">>>> Two old articles about an antler artefact interpreted as part of a boat. I do not agree with the authors interpretation, but the item is nevertheless an interesting artefact:</div><div dir="auto" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"># Ellmers, Detlev (1984): The Earliest Evidence for Skinboats in Late-Palaeolithic Europe. in: McGrail, Sean (ed.): Aspects of Maritime Archaeology and Ethnography, 41-55, London </div><div dir="auto" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"># Ellmers, Detlev (1980): Ein Fellboot-Fragment der Ahrensburger Kultur aus Husum, Schleswig-Holstein?. – Offa 37, 19-24</div><div dir="auto" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><div class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class="">>> Three old articles dealing with Roman Iron Age Runic inscriptions on bones found in the river Weser:<br class=""># Ellmers, Detlev (1994): Germanischer Runenzauber mit der Darstellung eines römischen Handelsschiffes. in: Keller, Hagen & Staubach, Nikolaus (eds.): Iconologia sacra. Mythos, Bildkunst und Dichtung in der Religions- und Sozialgeschichte Alteuropas. Festschrift für Karl Hauck, Arbeiten zur Frühmittelalterforschung, 124-131, Münster<br class=""># Pieper, Peter / Maarleveld, Thijs J. / Jull, A. J. T. (1991): Ideologie und Fälschung. Abschließendes zum Komplex der sog. Deventer-Knochen. – Archäologisches Korrespondenzblatt 21, 317-322<br class=""># Pieper, Peter (2006): Weserrunen. in: Hoops, Johannes (ed.): Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde, Band 33, 495-505, 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: <a href="mailto:info@knochenarbeit.de" class="">info@knochenarbeit.de</a> <br class="">web: <a href="http://www.knochenarbeit.de" class="">http://www.knochenarbeit.de</a><br class=""><br class=""><br class=""></div><br class=""></div></div></div></body></html>