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-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,<br class=""><br class=""><div class="">the first <b class="">new artefact</b> this year is a shell artefact found by Burkhard Weishäupl from Innsbruck, Austria, on a flee market in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. Nathalie Serrand, archaeo-malacologist at the Centre archéologique in Gourbeyre, Guadeloupe, kindly shared her expertise about these kind of artefacts:</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=""><div class=""><div class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">The bone and shell artefact <b class="">session planned at the 14th ICAZ conference in Cairns</b>, Australia, already mentioned in the December updates, is entitled</div><div class=""><b class="">Bone and Shell Fishhooks: A Close Up into Fishing Technology to Explore Knowledge, Tradition, Exchange, Migration and Beyond</b> </div><div class="">If you are interested in this session please get in touch with Carola Flores via <a href="mailto:carolaflowers@GMAIL.COM" class="">carolaflowers@GMAIL.COM</a></div><div class="">More details, like the session abstract, can be found here:</div><div class=""><a href="https://www.wbrg.net/icaz-2023-cairns/" class="">https://www.wbrg.net/icaz-2023-cairns/</a></div><div class=""><a href="https://www.wbrg.net/meetings/" class="">https://www.wbrg.net/meetings/</a></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="">I have added a new page for the workshop held by the Groupement de Recherche Europeen Exploitation des Matieres Osseuses dans l’Europe Prehistorique (<b class="">GDRE Prehistos) in Targoviste</b>, Romania, in <b class="">November 2013</b>. See here:</div><div class=""><a href="https://www.wbrg.net/gdre-workshop-2013-targoviste/" class="">https://www.wbrg.net/gdre-workshop-2013-targoviste/</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""></div><div class=""><b class="">Hosting contract terminated</b></div><div class="">Sabine Deschler-Erb informed me in December that the Institut für Prähistorische und Naturwissenschaftliche Archäologie (IPNA) in Basel will not be able to cover the hosting of the WBRG website anymore after the retirement of Jörg Schibler. The university has terminated the hosting contract, with Andi Jacomet’s company ah,ja! in Bern, Switzerland, the provider at which the website is hosted since its beginning in 2010. The hosting is covered by contract until the <b class="">31st of July 202</b>4, but we will have to find a solution from August 2024 onwards. We can either leave the website at Andi Jacomet’s company and find new funding for the hosting contract or we can move the website to another provider. I got in touch with Andi yesterday and he will inform me about the costs soon. Personally, I would recommend to leave the website at its place for various reasons.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">As once every year I have checked all links to bone workers and other websites related to bone artefacts given on the respective pages. Dead links have been removed:</div><div class=""><a href="https://www.wbrg.net/links/bone-workers/" class="">https://www.wbrg.net/links/bone-workers/</a></div><div class=""><a href="https://www.wbrg.net/links/various-links/" class="">https://www.wbrg.net/links/various-links/</a></div><div class="">If anybody is aware of worked bone related websites missing on these pages, please let me know.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div></div></div><div class=""><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> (2022): Two Bone Objects. in: <span class="kapitaelchen">Singer-Avitz, Lily & Ayalon, Etan (eds.): </span>
Yotvata. The Ze'ev Meshel Excavations (1974-1980). The Iron I
"Fortress" and the Early Islamic Settlement, Tel Aviv University Sonia
and Marco Nadler Institute of Archaeology Monograph Series, 85-87</div><div class="">>>> see attached file</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""># <span class="kapitaelchen">Bar-Yosef Mayer, Daniella </span> (2022): Shell Artifacts. in: <span class="kapitaelchen">Singer-Avitz, Lily & Ayalon, Etan (eds.): </span>
Yotvata. The Ze'ev Meshel Excavations (1974-1980). The Iron I
"Fortress" and the Early Islamic Settlement, Tel Aviv University Sonia
and Marco Nadler Institute of Archaeology Monograph Series, 81-84</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""># <span class="kapitaelchen">Bläuer, Auli / Hukantaival, Sonja / Saarinen, Rikka / Hirvilammi, Maarit / Ratilainen, Tanja </span>
(2019): Early Medieval/Viking Age Exchange Networks. Cattle Phalanx
Gaming Pieces from Turku, Finland. – Lund Archaeological Review 24-25,
5-25</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""># <span class="kapitaelchen">Cernea, Cătălina / Vlad, Florin / Coman, Radu </span>
(2014): Primary analyses of the hard animal material industry of the
Cernavoda I Culture (Săveni-la Movile site, Ialomiţa County, Romania).
in: <span class="kapitaelchen">Mărgărit, Monica / Le Dosseur, Gaëlle / Averbouh, Aline (eds.): </span>
An Overview of the Exploitaiton of hard Animal Materials during the
Neolithic and Chalcolithic. Prodeedings of the GDRE PREHISTOS
Work-Session in Targoviste, Romania, November 2013, Prehistoric
Exploitation of Hard Animal Materials, 275-293, Targoviste</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""># <span class="kapitaelchen">Chechushkov, Igor V. / Epimakhov, Andrei V. / Bersenev, Andrei G. </span>
(2018): Early horse bridle with cheekpieces as a marker of social
change: An experimental and statistical study. – Journal of
Archaeological Science 97, 125-136</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""># <span class="kapitaelchen">Choyke, Alice M. </span> (2014): Continuity
and Discontinuity at Gyõr-Szabadrét-Domb: bone tools from a Chalcolithic
settlement in northwest Hungary. in: <span class="kapitaelchen">Mărgărit, Monica / Le Dosseur, Gaëlle / Averbouh, Aline (eds.): </span>
An Overview of the Exploitaiton of hard Animal Materials during the
Neolithic and Chalcolithic. Prodeedings of the GDRE PREHISTOS
Work-Session in Targoviste, Romania, November 2013, Prehistoric
Exploitation of Hard Animal Materials, 295-328, Targoviste</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><span class="kapitaelchen"># Flyorova, V. E. </span> (2001): Carved Bone
in the South-East in Europe of the 9th–12th Centuries: Art and Trade.
According to the Materials from Sarkel – Belaya Vezha Collection
preserved in State Hermitage, St. Petersburg </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""># <span class="kapitaelchen">Luik, Heidi </span> (2009): Luu- ja sarvesemed Eesti arheoloogiliste leidudena, PhD-thesis University of Tartu, Tartu</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""># <span class="kapitaelchen">Luik, Heidi </span> (2016): Luutöötlemisest
keskaegses Tallinnas. Esemeid ja töötlemisjääke Raekoja platsilt ning
Sauna 8/10 ja Pikk 47/Vaimu 2 kinnistutelt. – Vana Tallinn 27(31), 32-74</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""># <span class="kapitaelchen">Mărgărit, Monica </span> (2014): technical transformational scheme of the harpoons used in the settlements of the Gumelniţa culture. in: <span class="kapitaelchen">Mărgărit, Monica / Le Dosseur, Gaëlle / Averbouh, Aline (eds.): </span>
An Overview of the Exploitaiton of hard Animal Materials during the
Neolithic and Chalcolithic. Prodeedings of the GDRE PREHISTOS
Work-Session in Targoviste, Romania, November 2013, Prehistoric
Exploitation of Hard Animal Materials, 241-260, Targoviste</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""># <span class="kapitaelchen">Sermon, Richard Shaw </span> (2020): The
Waterford Bone Flute: A Twelfth-Century Tabor Pipe?. – Decies: Journal
of the Waterford Archaeological and Historical Society 76, 10-29</div><div class="">>>> download: <a href="https://www.academia.edu/44749090/The_Waterford_Bone_Flute_A_Twelfth_Century_Tabor_Pipe" class="">https://www.academia.edu/44749090/The_Waterford_Bone_Flute_A_Twelfth_Century_Tabor_Pipe</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""># <span class="kapitaelchen">Singer-Avitz, Lily </span> (2022): Ostrich Eggshells. in: <span class="kapitaelchen">Singer-Avitz, Lily & Ayalon, Etan (eds.): </span>
Yotvata. The Ze'ev Meshel Excavations (1974-1980). The Iron I
"Fortress" and the Early Islamic Settlement, Tel Aviv University Sonia
and Marco Nadler Institute of Archaeology Monograph Series, 89-90</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><font color="#000000" class=""># </font><span class="kapitaelchen">Skakun, Natalia N. / Terekhina, V. V. / Samzun, Anaick / Mateva, Boryana </span>
(2014): An overview of hard animal materials industry during the Early
Metal Age: analysis of the material of the Tripolian site of Bodaki. in:
<span class="kapitaelchen">Mărgărit, Monica / Le Dosseur, Gaëlle / Averbouh, Aline (eds.): </span>
An Overview of the Exploitaiton of hard Animal Materials during the
Neolithic and Chalcolithic. Prodeedings of the GDRE PREHISTOS
Work-Session in Targoviste, Romania, November 2013, Prehistoric
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