<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=""><div dir="auto" 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="">first of all, a happy and healthy new year to all of you. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">This month’s featured bonetool is a beautifully and lively carved handle of a 18th-19th century walking stick showing a greyhound. A nice symbol for the beginning of a new year, I think. It was found by Arjan Hullegie in a Dutch village:</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=""><br class=""></div><div class="">If you do have ideas and examples for <b class="">future bonetools</b> of the month, please send them to me. I still do have some artefacts in stock for the upcoming months, but I would like to expand the geographical and chronological variety. Particularly artefacts from outside of Europe are still underrepresented and would be welcome.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">The publication of the <b class="">proceedings</b> of the 2019 Meeting in <b class="">Montréal</b> has been added to the „Meeting" and „About" pages:</div><div class=""><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=""><a href="https://www.wbrg.net/about/" class="">https://www.wbrg.net/about/</a></div><div class="">The individual articles of the book are not yet included. I will add the table of contents to the Montréal page and the articles to the reference database in the forthcoming months. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Three <b class="">sessions related to worked bone</b> will be held at the 28th Annual Meeting of the European Association of Archaeologists (EAA) 31.8.-3.9.2022 in Budapest:</div><div class=""><div class="">• Session 263: Craft Specialization in Worked Hard Osseous Materials: Conversations on a Complex Conceptual Category in Archaeology</div><div class="">Organised by Miriam Luciañez Triviño, Noëlle Provenzano and Alice Choyke</div><div class=""><a href="https://submissions.e-a-a.org/eaa2022/sessions/overview/preview.php?id=263" class="">https://submissions.e-a-a.org/eaa2022/sessions/overview/preview.php?id=263</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">• Session 298: Raw Material Acquisition, Management and Technological Choices from the Mesolithic to the Bronze Age in South Eastern Europe</div><div class="">Organised by Selena Vitezovic, Christoforos Arampatzis and Dragana Rajkovic</div><div class=""><a href="https://submissions.e-a-a.org/eaa2022/sessions/overview/preview.php?id=298" class="">https://submissions.e-a-a.org/eaa2022/sessions/overview/preview.php?id=298</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">• Session 430: Percussive Osseous Industry a Human Revolution between Pre-formation and Waste Selection</div></div><div class="">Organised by Ursula Thun Hohenstein, Delphine Vettese and Juan Marin Hernando</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">These are now referenced on the „News" page:</div><div class=""><a href="https://www.wbrg.net/news/" class="">https://www.wbrg.net/news/</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Artist<b class=""> Ella Einhel</b>l recently got in touch with me about some questions related to boneworking. She did some interesting studies employing bone as raw material for contemporary arts and design and in technical processes. Among other things this resulted in her bachelor thesis now included in the reference database (see below). Ella Einhell is now listed in the directory of bone workers at </div><div class=""><a href="https://www.wbrg.net/links/bone-workers/" class="">https://www.wbrg.net/links/bone-workers/</a></div><div class="">Anybody interested can visit her website at <a href="https://ellaeinhell.com/" class="">https://ellaeinhell.com</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">Ayalon, Etan </span> (2006): Bone, Ivory, Shell and Steatite Objects from the Roman-Byzantine Periods. in: <span class="kapitaelchen">Mazar, A. (ed.): </span> Excavations at Tel Beth-Shean 1989–1996, I. From the Late Bronze Age IIB to the Medieval Period, 666-676, Jerusalem</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""># <span class="kapitaelchen">Doyon, Luc </span> (2020): L’évolution Des
Technologies Cynégétiques En Matière Osseuses Au Début Du Paléolithique
Supérieur: L’apport Des Assemblages Mis Au Jour Aux Grottes de
l’Observatoire (Monaco) et Des Enfants (Balzi Rossi, Italie). – Bulletin
Du Musée d’Anthropologie Préhistorique de Monaco 59, 51-58</div><div dir="auto" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><br class=""></div># <span class="kapitaelchen">Doyon, Luc </span> (2019): On the Shape of
Things: A Geometric Morphometrics Approach to Investigate Aurignacian
Group Membership. – Journal of Archaeological Science 101, 99-114</div><div dir="auto" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">DOI: <a href="https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2018.11.009" class="">https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2018.11.009</a></div><div dir="auto" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><br class=""></div><div dir="auto" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">#
<span class="kapitaelchen">Doyon, Luc & Katz Knecht, Heidi </span>
(2014): The Effects of Use and Resharpening on Morphometric Variability
of Aurignacian Antler Projectile Points. – Mitteilungen der Gesellschaft
für Urgeschichte 23, 83-101</div><div dir="auto" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><br class=""></div><div dir="auto" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""># <span class="kapitaelchen">Doyon, Luc / Li, Hao / Li, ZhanYang / Wang, Hua / Zhao, QingPo </span>
(2019): Further Evidence of Organic Soft Hammer Percussion and Pressure
Retouch from Lingjing (Xuchang, Henan, China). – Lithic Technology
44(2), 100-117</div><div dir="auto" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">DOI: <a href="https://doi.org/10.1080/01977261.2019.1589926" class="">https://doi.org/10.1080/01977261.2019.1589926</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">Einhell, Ella </span> (2020): To the Bones, Bachelor Thesis Weissensee Kunsthochschule Berlin, Berlin </div><div class="">>>> download: <a href="https://ellaeinhell.com/bachelor-thesis-to-the-bones" class="">https://ellaeinhell.com/bachelor-thesis-to-the-bones</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""># <span class="kapitaelchen">Farhi, Y. </span> (2016): Worked Bone Artifacts. in: <span class="kapitaelchen">Syon, D. (ed.): </span> Gamla III: The Shmarya Gutmann Excavations 1976–1989, Finds and Studies: Part 2, 229-260, Jerusalem</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""># <span class="kapitaelchen">Geva, H. </span> (2006): Bone Artifacts. in: <span class="kapitaelchen">Geva, H. (ed.): </span>
Jewish Quarter Excavations in the Old City Conducted by Nahman Avigad
1969–1982, III. Area E and Other Studies, Final Report, 266-271,
Jerusalem</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""># L<span class="kapitaelchen">owden, John </span> (2013): Medieval and Later Ivories in the Courtauld Gallery. The Gambier Parry Collection, London </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""># <span class="kapitaelchen">Lowden, John </span> (2008): Medieval Ivories and Works of Art. Thomson Collection at the Art Gallery of Ontario, London</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""># <span class="kapitaelchen">Schädler, Ulrich </span> (1995): XII Scripta, Alea, Tabula: New Evidence for the Roman History of Ancient Board Games. in: <span class="kapitaelchen">de Voogt, Alexander J. (ed.): </span>
New Approaches to Board Game Research: Asian Origin and Future
Perspectives, International Institute for Asian Studies Working Paper 3,
73-98, Leiden</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""># <span class="kapitaelchen">Schwartz, D. G. </span> (2006): Roll the Bones: A History of Gambling, New York</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""># <span class="kapitaelchen">Shatil, Ariel & Behar, S. </span> (2013): The Bone Objects. in: <span class="kapitaelchen">Ben-Ami, D. (ed.): </span> Jerusalem Excavations in the Tyropoeon Valley (Giv'ati Parking Lot) I, 321-326, Jerusalem</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""># <span class="kapitaelchen">Wapnish, Paula </span> (1991): Beauty and Utility in Bone: New Light on Bone Crafting. – Biblical Archaeology Review 17(4), 54-57, 72</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""># Wild, Markus / Thurber, Beverley A. / Rhodes, Stephen / Gates St-Pierre, Christian (2021): Bones at a crossroads. Integrating Worked Bone Research with Archaeometry and Social Zooarchaeology, Leiden </div><div class="">>>> ordering: <a href="https://www.sidestone.com/books/bones-at-a-crossroads" class="">https://www.sidestone.com/books/bones-at-a-crossroads</a> and <a href="https://www.oxbowbooks.com/oxbow/bones-at-a-crossroads.html" class="">https://www.oxbowbooks.com/oxbow/bones-at-a-crossroads.html</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""># <span class="kapitaelchen">Winnicka, Kinga </span> (2021): Early Bronze Age Objects of Personal Use Made of Bone: Their Materiality and Meaning, PhD-thesis University of Wrocław</div> <br class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Best wishes.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Christian<br class=""><div class="">
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