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-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=""><div class=""><span class="">this </span><b class="">month’s bonetool</b> is probably the most unusual object we ever had since the existence of this website. It is probably also the oldest artefact provided so far and from a species we never had before. The (probable) pendants made of <em class="">Glossotherium (</em>giant sloth) bones have been found in a rock shelter in Brazil. They have been kindly provided by Thaís Pansani and were part of her PhD-thesis. For more information see</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="">Tomorrow the <b class="">14th ICAZ conference in Cairns</b>, Australia (7.-12. August 2023) will start with substantial contributions related to bone artefact research. There will be a sessions related to worked bone, an informal WBRG meeting and a presentation about the history of the WBRG:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div class="">• The session organized by Carola Flores Fernandez will be held on Saturday, 12. August 2023, 10:30-12:30 am and 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><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">The second worked bone session planned by Jennifer Hull ("Shaped by Place: Development of Osseous Industries from a Global Perspective“) has apparently been cancelled, at least it is not listed in the program anymore.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">• There will be an informal <strong class="">WBRG meeting</strong> in Cairns on Wednesday, <strong class="">9. August</strong>, 2-3 pm in Room M11.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">• Alice Choyke will give a presentation about the history and development of the WBRG on Thursday, 10. August 2023, 4:00 - 5:20 pm (Cairns time), within the session </div><div class="">"Where Have We Been and Where are We Going? Papers Celebrating 50 Years of Archaeozoology“. It is entitled</div><div class="">"<b class="">Bringing the Strands Together: Forging Consensus on the Study of Worked Hard Osseous Materials</b>“</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">For more information see:</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.icaz2023.org/full-program/" class="">https://www.icaz2023.org/full-program/</a></div><div class=""><a href="https://www.icaz2023.org/call-for-abstracts/" class="">https://www.icaz2023.org/call-for-abstracts/</a></div><div class=""><a href="https://www.icaz2023.org/" class="">https://www.icaz2023.org/</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div class="">I would like to remind you to answer the query Marianne Christensen and Nejma Goutas have set up for planning the 1<b class="">5th Meeting in Paris in May 2024</b><span class="">, if you haven’t done it already. </span>The form is available through this link:</div><div class=""><a href="http://framaforms.org/wbrg-2024-may-15th-wbrg-international-meeting-1686178595" class="">framaforms.org/wbrg-2024-may-15th-wbrg-international-meeting-1686178595</a></div><div class="">Information about the meeting is available at</div><div class=""><a href="https://wbrg-2024.sciencesconf.org/?forward-action=index&forward-controller=index&lang=en" class="">https://wbrg-2024.sciencesconf.org/?forward-action=index&forward-controller=index&lang=en</a></div><div class="">and <a href="https://www.wbrg.net/meetings/15th-meeting-paris-2024/" class="">https://www.wbrg.net/meetings/15th-meeting-paris-2024/</a></div><div class=""><div class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">My colleague Natascha Mehler recently pointed me towards an extraordinary ivory artefact found in a Roman site in Wels, Austria. It is an ivory handle, which bears Chinese engravings and writing, suggesting the the object had been manufactured in China and traded to Austria. The article on the website of the Austrian Broadcasting Corporation (ORF) is in German, but it may be nevertheless interesting.</div><div class=""><a href="https://ooe.orf.at/stories/3217684/" class="">https://ooe.orf.at/stories/3217684/</a></div></div></div></div><div class=""><br class=""></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">Bačkalov, Aleksandar </span> (1979): Predmeti
od kostii roga u preneolitu I neolitu Srbije [Stone and Bone Tools in
Preneolithic and Neolithic Serbia], Fontes archaeologiae Iugoslaviae 2,
Beograd</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""># <span class="kapitaelchen">Billamboz, A. </span> (1978): L’industrie du
bois de cerf en Franche-Comté au Néolithique et au début de l’age du
Bronze. – Gallia prehistoire 20(1), 7-176</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""># <span class="kapitaelchen">Choyke, Alice M. </span> (1983): An analysis
of bone, antler, and tooth tools from Bronze Age Hungary. – Mitteilungen
des Archäologischen Institutes der Ungarischen Akademie der
Wissenschaften 12/13, 13-57 </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""># <span class="kapitaelchen">Daróczi-Szabo, Márta / Kovács, Eszter / Raczky, P. / Bartosiewicz, Laszlo </span>
(2020): Pending danger: Recent Copper Age lion (Panthera leo L., 1758)
finds from Hungary. – International Jounal of Osteoarchaeology 30(4),
469-481</div><div class="">>>> DOI: <a href="https://doi.org/10.1002/oa.2875" class="">https://doi.org/10.1002/oa.2875</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""># <span class="kapitaelchen">Eise, J. </span> (2023): Von Fälschern, Päpsten und Spielern. – Archäologie in Deutschland 3/2023, 61</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""># <span class="kapitaelchen">Küchelmann, Hans Christian </span> (2023):
Auf Walfang im Bürgerpark – zwei verschollene Walknochenmonumente aus
Bremen. – Abhandlungen des Naturwissenschaftichen Vereins zu Bremen
48(1), 27-31</div>>>> Anybody interested in this and the following paper on whale bone monuments, please get in touch with me at <a href="mailto:info@knochenarbeit.de" class="">info@knochenarbeit.de</a>.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""># <span class="kapitaelchen">Küchelmann, Hans Christian & Friesen, Vitali </span> (2023): Walfang mit Steinbeil?. – Archäologie in Deutschland 4/2023, 56-57</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""># <span class="kapitaelchen">Luciañèz Triviño, Miriam </span> (2023):
Ivory technology: tools, techniques and production modes in the Iberian
Copper Age. Valencina de la Concepción (Seville) as a case study. –
Trabajos De Prehistoria 80(1), e08</div><div class="">>>> DOI: <a href="https://doi.org/10.3989/tp.2023.12323" class="">https://doi.org/10.3989/tp.2023.12323</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""># <span class="kapitaelchen">Markova, Hristina </span> (2023):
Chalcolithic Bone Spindle Whorls in Bulgaria: Finds from the “Tilkiyuk”
Settlement Mound (Sadievo, Southeastern Bulgaria). – Epohi 31(1), 11-24
<br class="">>>> DOI: <a href="https://doi.org/10.54664/LSYH4086" class="">https://doi.org/10.54664/LSYH4086</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""># <span class="kapitaelchen">Pansani, Thais R. / Pobiner, Briana /
Pobiner, Pierre / Thoury, Mathieu / Tafforeau, Paul / Baranger, Emmanuel
/ Vialou, Águeda V. / Vialou, Denis / McSparron, Cormac / de Castro,
Mariela C. / Dantas, Mário A. T. / Bertrand, Loïc / Pacheco, Mírian L.
A. F. </span> (2023): Evidence of artefacts made of giant sloth bones in
central Brazil around the last glacial maximum. – Proceedings of the
Royal Society B 290</div><div class="">>>> DOI: <a href="https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2023.0316" class="">https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2023.0316</a></div></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=""><br class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Best wishes<br class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Christian<br class=""> <br 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="">ORCID-ID: 0000-0003-0207-3804</div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><br class=""><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; 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