<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;" class="">Dear Worked Bone Research Group,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">The most important update this month is a new page for the upcoming 14th WBRG <b class="">meeting in Johannesburg</b> in 2021, which contains the 1st call for abstracts. The page is accessible at</div><div class=""><a href="https://www.wbrg.net/meetings/14th-meeting-johannesburg-2021/" class="">https://www.wbrg.net/meetings/14th-meeting-johannesburg-2021/</a></div><div class="">Please send your abstracts until the 30th of November 2020 to Justin Bradfield via <a href="mailto:wbrg2021@uj.ac.za" class="">wbrg2021@uj.ac.za</a>.</div><div class="">The page also contains also the link to the meeting website at <a href="http://www.uj.ac.za/wbrg" class="">http://www.uj.ac.za/wbrg</a>.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">This <b class="">month’s bonetool</b> is a beautifully decorated antler object of yet unknown function found in Olomuec, Czech Republic. </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></div><div class="">Renáta Přichystalová would still be grateful for comparative items and suggestions of a possible function. If you have any suggestions, please get in touch with her at <a href="mailto:svecova@phil.muni.cz" class="">svecova@phil.muni.cz</a>.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><b class="">References</b> added to the Database:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""># <span class="kapitaelchen">Armitage, Philip L. </span> (1989): The Use of Animal Bones as Building Material in Post-Medieval Britain. in: <span class="kapitaelchen">Serjeantson, Dale & Waldron, Tony (eds.): </span>
Diet and Crafts in Towns – The evidence of animal remains from the
Roman to the Post-Medieval periods, British Archaeological Reports
British Series, 147-160, Oxford</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""># <span class="kapitaelchen">Armitage, Philip L. </span> (1989): Gazetteer of Sites with Animal Bones used as Building Material. in: <span class="kapitaelchen">Serjeantson, Dale & Waldron, Tony (eds.): </span>
Diet and Crafts in Towns – The evidence of animal remains from the
Roman to the Post-Medieval periods, British Archaeological Reports
British Series, 201-223, Oxford</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""># <span class="kapitaelchen">Berthold, Jens / Hupka, Dieter / Kempken,
Franz / Nehren, Rudolf / Berke, Hubert / Bonn, Rainer / Burianek, Martin
/ Hambach, Ulrich / Päffgen, Bernd / Schmidt, Burghart / Skupin, Klaus /
Strauch, Friedrich / Zipp, Katja </span> (2017): Ausgrabungen am
Kurt-Hackenberg-Platz und am Domhof in Köln. Archäologische
Untersuchungen im Rahmen des Nord-Süd-Stadtbahnbaus. – Kölner Jahrbuch
50, 133-540 </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""># <span class="kapitaelchen">Bourdillon, Jennifer </span> (1990): An
Assemblage mainly of Cattle Metapodial Bones from the Floor at King
John's House, Romsey, Hampshire, Ancient Monuments Laboratory Report
114/90, Southampton</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""># <span class="kapitaelchen">Fiedler, U. & Heller, R. </span> (2019): Töpfer & Knopfmacher in Gardelegen. – Archäologie in Deutschland 1/2019, 63</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""># <span class="kapitaelchen">Frey, Sigrid </span> (1991): Osteologische
Untersuchungen an Schlacht- und Siedlungsabfällen aus dem römischen
Vicus von Bad Wimpfen, Forschungen und Berichte zur Vor- und
Frühgeschichte in Baden-Württemberg 39, Stuttgart</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""># <span class="kapitaelchen">Frison, George C. </span> (1982): Bone butchering tools in Archaeological Sites. – Canadian Journal of Anthropology 2, 159-167</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""># <span class="kapitaelchen">Galloway, Patricia </span> (1976): Note on descriptions of bone and antler combs. – Medieval Archaeology 20, 154-156</div><div class="">download: <a href="https://archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/catalogue/adsdata/arch-769-1/dissemination/pdf/vol20/20_154_156.pdf" class="">https://archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/catalogue/adsdata/arch-769-1/dissemination/pdf/vol20/20_154_156.pdf</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""># <span class="kapitaelchen">Galloway, Patricia & Newcomer, Mark </span> (1981): The craft of comb-making: an experimental enquiry. – Bulletin of the Institute of Archaeology 18, 73-90</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""># <span class="kapitaelchen">Hamilton-Dyer, Sheila </span> (2001): Objects of Bone, Horn and Shell. in: <span class="kapitaelchen">Peacock, D. P. S. & Maxfield, V. A. (eds.): </span>
Mons Claudianus, Survey and Excavation: Vol II Excavations Part 1,
Documents de Fouilles de l'Institut français d'archéologie orientale,
357-364</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""># <span class="kapitaelchen">Kitching, James W. </span> (1963): Bone, Tooth, & Horn Tools of Paleolithic Man, Manchester</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""># <span class="kapitaelchen">Louwe Kooijmans, Leendert P. </span> (1972):
Mesolithic bone and antler implements from the North Sea and from the
Netherlands. – Berichten van de Rijksdienst voor het Oudheidkundig
Bodemonderzoek 20/21, 27-73</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""># <span class="kapitaelchen">Marangou, Lila </span> (1972): Bone carvings from Egypt 1: Graeco-Roman Period, Tübingen</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""># <span class="kapitaelchen">Mason, Revil </span> (1958): Bone tools at
the Kalkbank Middle Stone Age site and the Makapansgat australopithecine
locality, central Transvaal, part 1. – South African Archaeological
Bulletin 13, 94-116</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""># <span class="kapitaelchen">Mason, Revil </span> (1964): Iron Age bone artefacts. – South African Archaeological Bulletin 19, 38</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""># <span class="kapitaelchen">Osipowicz, Grzegorz / Orlowska, Justyna / Piličiauskienė, Giedrė / Piliciauskas, Gytis </span>
(2020): Frontlets from the south-east coast of the Baltic Sea? Seal
craniums from Šventoji: A unique clue to understanding the symbolic
culture of European middle Holocene hunter-gatherers. – Journal of
Archaeological Science: Reports 34A</div><div class="">download: <a href="https://authors.elsevier.com/a/1b-1C,rVDBVSge" class="">https://authors.elsevier.com/a/1b-1C,rVDBVSge</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""># <span class="kapitaelchen">Xie, Liye </span> (2014): Early to Middle
Holocene Earth-Working Implements and Neolithic Land-Use Strategies on
the Ningshao Plain, China, PhD-thesis University of Arizona, Tucson</div>download: <a href="https://repository.arizona.edu/handle/10150/325217" class="">https://repository.arizona.edu/handle/10150/325217</a></div><div dir="auto" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""># <span class="kapitaelchen">Xie, Liye / Lu, Xuejiao / Sun, Guoping / Huang, Weijin </span>
(2017): Functionality and Morphology: Identifying Si Agricultural Tools
from Among the Hemudu Scapular Implements in Eastern China. – Journal
of Archaeological Method and Theory 24, 377-423</div><div class="">download: <a href="https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10816-015-9271-x" class="">https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10816-015-9271-x</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""># <span class="kapitaelchen">Xie, Liye </span> (2018): Scapulae for
shovels: Does raw material choice reflect accessibility and technical
ease?. – Journal of Archaeological Science 97, 77-89</div><div class="">download: <a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0305440318303431" class="">https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0305440318303431</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""># <span class="kapitaelchen">Xie, Liye </span> (2018): Raw material
preferences for scapular tools: evaluating water buffalo age bias in the
Early Hemudu Culture, China. – International Jounal of Osteoarchaeology
28(6), 645-655</div><div class="">download: <a href="https://doi.org/10.1002/oa.2677" class="">https://doi.org/10.1002/oa.2677</a></div><div class=""> <br class=""> </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">With kind regards.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Christian</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div class="">
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