<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 WBRG members,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">this <b class="">months bonetool</b> is a beautifully decorated mystery object found in Nothumberland, which has been sent to the mailing list by David Constantine in 2015. <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=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">The group of <b class="">supporters</b> for the WBRG website is growing. Last month <b class="">Pam Crabtree and Douglas Campana</b> of the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, New York University, USA, kindly agreed to support the website. Also <b class="">Marianne Christensen</b> and her lab <b class="">Équipe ethnologie préhistorique</b> at the Université de Paris 1, Panthéon-Sorbonne agreed to contribute a share to the costs for the maintenance of the website. This is highly appreciated and I would like to thank you all in the name of the WBRG and of course also personally, since part of the costs will cover my working hours. All institutions and individuals are now acknowledged on the WBRG website at </div><div class=""><a href="https://www.wbrg.net/impressum/" class="">https://www.wbrg.net/impressum/</a></div><div class="">The institute logos logos are also given on the main page (<a href="https://www.wbrg.net/" class="">https://www.wbrg.net/</a>), linked to the respective institutes.</div><div class="">Here are the links to their websites:</div><div class=""><a href="http://www.arscan.fr/ethnologie-prehistorique/" class="">http://www.arscan.fr/ethnologie-prehistorique/</a></div><div class=""><a href="https://isaw.nyu.edu/people/visiting-research-scholars/previous/scholars-2015-2016/pam-crabtree" class="">https://isaw.nyu.edu/people/visiting-research-scholars/previous/scholars-2015-2016/pam-crabtree</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><b class="">References</b> adeed to the database:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""># <span class="kapitaelchen">David, Eva & Hrnciarik, Erik </span>
(2021): Microscopic Re-Examination of an Unique Bone Artefact: The
Figure of a Theatrical Actor Found at The Roman Fort Iža/Leányvár
(Slovakia). – Open Archaeology 7(1), 118-127</div><div class="">> download: <a href="https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/opar-2020-0127/html" class="">https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/opar-2020-0127/html</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""># <span class="kapitaelchen">Kenyon, W. & Churcher, C. S. </span> (1965): A Flake Tool and a worked Antler Fragment from late Lake Agassiz. – Canadian Journal of Earth Science 2(4), 237-246</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""># Krause, E. (1904): Vorgeschichtliche Fischereigeräte und neuere Vergleichsstücke, Berlin</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""># Lauwerier, Roel C. G. M. (1999): A Bronze or Iron Age antler axe with a rectangular shafthole. in: Becker, Cornelia / Manhart, Henriette / Peters, Joris / Schibler, Jörg (eds.): Historia Animalium ex Ossibus – Beiträge zur Paläoanatomie, Archäologie, Ägyptologie, Ethnologie und Geschichte der Tiermedizin, 227, Rahden</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""># <span class="kapitaelchen">Lobisser, Wolfgang </span> (1999): Zum Nachbau von dreilagigen Kompositkämmen aus Bein. – Beiträge zur Mittelalterarchäologie in Österreich 15, 251-271</div><div class="">> download: <a href="https://www.univie.ac.at/oegm/images/bmoe_pdf/bmoe_15-1999.pdf" class="">https://www.univie.ac.at/oegm/images/bmoe_pdf/bmoe_15-1999.pdf</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""># Mais, K. (1962): Über Lochungsversuche an einem rezenten Braunbärenwirbel. – Archeologia Austriaca 32, 24-26</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""># Schibler, Jörg (1995): Geweih. in: Stöckli, W. E. / Niffeler, U. / Gross-Klee, E. (eds.): Die Schweiz vom Paläolothikum bis zum frühen Mittelalter, 142-145, Basel</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""># <span class="kapitaelchen">St Clair, Archer </span> (2003): Carving as Craft: Palatine East and the Greco-Roman Bone and Ivory Carving Tradition, Baltimore, Maryland</div>> currently on discount at Oxbow: <a href="https://www.oxbowbooks.com/oxbow/carving-as-craft.html" class="">https://www.oxbowbooks.com/oxbow/carving-as-craft.html</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""># Wheat, Joe Ben (1982): Bone Technology at Jurgens, Olsen-Chubbock and Little Box Elder. – Canadian Journal of Anthropology 2, 169-177</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""># Woodhouse, Charles Platten (1976): Ivories: A History and Guide, New York</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div class="">The <b class="">conservation</b> page has been updated with several publications concerned with the curation of skeletal materials:</div><div class=""><a href="https://www.wbrg.net/conservation/" class="">https://www.wbrg.net/conservation/</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""># Carter, Julian (1999): Skin and Bones. – Biology Curator 16, 3-8 </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""># Hiron, Xavier / Bouix, Didier / Chaumat, Gilles /Jacquemont, Marlène / Juy, Christine / Viallon, Armandine (2005): Results from treating hundreds of waterlogged antlers. Study and behaviour during impregnation and drying treatments. in: Hoffmann, Per / Strætkvern, Kristiane / Spriggs, James A. / Gregory, David (eds.): Proceedings of the 9th ICOM Group on Wet Organic Archaeological Materials Conference Copenhagen, Bremerhaven, 473-482</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""># Johnson, Jessica S. (1994): Consolidation of Archaeological Bone: a Conservation Perspective. – Journal of Field Archaeology 21, 221-233</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""># Sæterhaug, Roar (1998): Conservation of Wet Whale Bone. in: Bonnet-Diconne, C. / Hiron, Xavier / Tran, Q. K. / Hoffmann, Per (eds.): Proceedings of the 7th ICOM-CC Working Group on Wet Organic Archaeological Materials Conference, Grenoble, 254-257</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""># Turner-Walker, Gordon (2007): Degradation Pathways and Conservation Strategies for Ancient Bone from Wet Anoxic Sites. in: Strætkvern, Kristiane & Huisman, D. J. (eds.): Proceedings of the 10th ICOM Group on Wet Organic Archaeological Materials Conference Amsterdam 2007, Amersfoort, 659-675</div><div class=""><br class=""></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=""><br class=""><div class="">
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