<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 style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Dear Worked Bone Research Group,<br class=""><br class="">as this months bonetool I chose something contemporary and a nice example of crossing cultures. Edith Diewald, a friend of mine from Bremen, is making and playing Ngonis, a West African string instrument. For her latest models she used cattle bones as string leads and I suggested her to write a little blog about this. There are also some examples of music made with Ngonis.<div class=""><a href="https://www.wbrg.net/bonetool-of-the-month-archives/" class="">https://www.wbrg.net/bonetool-of-the-month-archives/</a></div><div class=""><br class=""><br class="">New <b class="">references</b> added to the database:<br class=""><br class=""># Fabis, Marian (2000): Die Knochenindustrie von dem frühbronzezeitlichen Gräberfeld. in: Bátora, J. (ed.): Das Gräberfeld von Jelšovce / Slowakei. Ein Beitrag zur Frühbronzezeit im nordwestlichen Karpatenbecken, Teil 1, Prähistorische Archäologie in Südosteuropa, 601-611, Kiel <div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""># Koerper, H. C. & Whitney-Desautels, N. A. (1999): Astragalus bones: artifacts or ecofacts. – Pacific Coast Archaeological Society Quarterly 35(2-3), 69-80</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""># Kysely, René / Dobeš, M. / Svoboda, K. (2019): Drilled teeth and shell artefacts from a grave at Prague-Březiněves and a review of decorative artefacts made from animal material from Corded Ware culture in the Czech Republic. – Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences 11(1), 87-131 </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""># Lehmkuhl, Ursula (1988): Ein mittelalterliches Knochenspiel aus dem Stadtkern von Rostock. – Weimarer Monographien zur Ur- und Frühgeschichte 22, 93-100</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""># Lowrey, J. D. (2014): The role of astragalus dice in promoting the production of surplus in Bronze and Iron Age Syria-Palestine: a new interpretation for knucklebones, MA-thesis University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""># Przybyła, M. & Jedrysik, J. (2018): A classification of objects made of bone, antler, tooth and horn from the Early Bronze Age fortified settlement in Maszkowice. – Sprawozdania archeologiczne 70, 269-296</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""># Sofaer, J. / Bender Jørgensen, L. / Choyke, Alice M. (2013): Craft production: ceramics, textiles and bone. in: Fokkens, H. & Harding, A. (eds.): The Oxford Handbook of the European Bronze Age, 469-491, Oxford</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""># Tahberer, B. (2012): Astragaloi on ancient coins: game pieces or agents of prophecy?. – Celator – Journal of Ancient Medieval Coinage 26, 4-20</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""># Tocik, A. (1959): Parohová a kostená industria maďarovskej kultúry na juhozápadnom Slovensku. – Studijné zvesti 3, 23-46</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""># Trantalidou, Katerina (2008): Astragali in caves: the contribution of theArchaeozoology in the understanding of some ancient Greek cult practices. – Anodos Studies of the Ancient World 6-7, 459-473</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""># Vítek, T. (2010): Astragalomancie. in: Vítek, T. (ed.): Věštění ve starém Řecku I.: Od věštců k losům, 438-461, Praha</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Best wishes.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Christian </div><div 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><br class=""><br class=""><div class="">
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