<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div dir="auto" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div dir="auto" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8" class=""><div 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=""><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=""><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=""><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=""><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=""><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8" class=""><div 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><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="">it has become a tradition on the WBRG website to feature an artefact from the hosting country in case a conference with worked bone related content is to be held. This month two worked bone sessions will be part of the UISPP conference in Timişoara, Romania. Therefore, Erika Gál kindly provided some medieval bird bone artefacts found in Romania as <b class="">this month’s bonetool:</b><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="">There are also some updates on the Worked Bone sessions at <b class="">UISPP conference </b><strong class="">Timişoara </strong>from<strong class=""> 3.-10. September 2023</strong> to be announced:</div><div class="">Session 21-2 will be on 7th of September between 8.30-15.30. Session 6-1:Smoothing, Smoothed and Smoothers has been joined with session 21-2. See here for details:</div><div class=""><a href="https://www.wbrg.net/meetings/uispp-2023-timisoara/" class="">https://www.wbrg.net/meetings/uispp-2023-timisoara/</a></div><div class="">The full program of the sessions can be downloaded here: <a href="https://uispp2023.uvt.ro/scientific-programme/" class="">https://uispp2023.uvt.ro/scientific-programme/</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">While preparing this month’s bonetool I realised that I had forgotten about this rule in August, when a worked bone session was part of the ICAZ conference in Cairns, Australia. The featured bonetool of the month was however something presented in Cairns, although it came from Brazil. But we can of course catch up on this. So, if anybody has an <b class="">artefact from Australia</b> to offer, please let me know.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Another fitting part of an <b class="">ivory figurine</b> has been found in the cave Hohle Fels in Suebia:</div><div class=""><a href="https://uni-tuebingen.de/en/university/news-and-publications/press-releases/press-releases/article/figurine-zeigt-eine-neue-gestalt/" class="">https://uni-tuebingen.de/en/university/news-and-publications/press-releases/press-releases/article/figurine-zeigt-eine-neue-gestalt/</a></div><div class=""><b class=""><br class=""></b></div><div class=""><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">Carlsson, Dan </span> (2002): Viking and Medieval Combs from the island of Gotland, Sweden, CD, Visby</div>>>> This paper is now available at <a href="https://www.academia.edu/7347117/Viking_Combs_and_Comb_making_on_the_island_of_Gotland_Sweden" class="">https://www.academia.edu/7347117/Viking_Combs_and_Comb_making_on_the_island_of_Gotland_Sweden</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""># <span class="kapitaelchen">Camps-Fabrer, Henriette </span> (1979): L'Industrie en Os et Bois de Cervidé durant le Néolithique et l’Âge des Métaux, Paris</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""># <span class="kapitaelchen">Clark, J. Grahame Douglas & Thompson, M. W. </span>
(1953): The groove and splinter technique of working antler inin Upper
Palaeolithic and Mesolithic Europe. – Proceedings of the Prehistoric
Society 19(2), 148-160 <br class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""># <span class="kapitaelchen">Conard, Nicholas J. & Janas, Alexander </span>
(2023): Fundreiche mittelpaläolithische Schichten und neue Einblicke in
Technologie und Subsistenz der Neandertaler im Hohle Fels. –
Archäologische Ausgrabungen in Baden-Württemberg 2022, 48-53</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""># <span class="kapitaelchen">Elbern, Victor H. </span> (1966): Vier
karolingische Elfenbeinkästen. Historische, symbolische und liturgische
Elemente in der spätkarolingischen Kunst. – Zeitschrift des Deutschen
Vereins für Kunstwissenschaft 20, 1-16</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""># <span class="kapitaelchen">Fages, G. & Mourer-Chauvré, Cécile </span>
(1983): La flute en os d'oiseau de la grotte sépulcrale de Veyreau
(Aveyron) et inventaire des flutes préhistoriques d'Europe. – Mémoire de
la Société Préhistorique Francaise 16, 95-103</div>>>> download: <a href="https://www.prehistoire.org/shop_515-17338-0-0/m16-1983-la-faune-et-l-homme-prehistoriques-dix-etudes-en-hommage-a-j.-bouchud-f.-poplin.html" class="">https://www.prehistoire.org/shop_515-17338-0-0/m16-1983-la-faune-et-l-homme-prehistoriques-dix-etudes-en-hommage-a-j.-bouchud-f.-poplin.html</a><br class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""># <span class="kapitaelchen">Floss, Harald </span> (2013): Das Vogelherdpferd und die Elfenbeinfiguren der Schwäbischen Alb. in: <span class="kapitaelchen">Wehrberger, Kurt (ed.): </span> Die Rückkehr des Löwenmenschen - Geschichte, Mythos, Magie, 78-87, Ulm</div><div class="">>>> download: <a href="https://www.academia.edu/21507226/Das_Vogelherdpferd_und_die_Elfenbeinfiguren_der_Schw%C3%A4bischen_Alb?email_work_card=title" class="">https://www.academia.edu/21507226/Das_Vogelherdpferd_und_die_Elfenbeinfiguren_der_Schw%C3%A4bischen_Alb?email_work_card=title</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""># <span class="kapitaelchen">Goldschmidt, Adolph & Weitzmann, Kurt </span> (1930): Die byzantinischen Elfenbeinskulpturen des X. - XIII. Jahrhunderts, Band 1: Die Kästen, Berlin</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""># <span class="kapitaelchen">Poplin, Francois </span> (1983): La dent de
cachelot sculptée du Mas d'Azil, avec remarques sur les autres restes de
Cétacés de la prehistoire francaise. – Mémoire de la Société
Préhistorique Francaise 16, 81-94</div><div class="">>>> download: <a href="https://www.prehistoire.org/shop_515-17338-0-0/m16-1983-la-faune-et-l-homme-prehistoriques-dix-etudes-en-hommage-a-j.-bouchud-f.-poplin.html" class="">https://www.prehistoire.org/shop_515-17338-0-0/m16-1983-la-faune-et-l-homme-prehistoriques-dix-etudes-en-hommage-a-j.-bouchud-f.-poplin.html</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""># <span class="kapitaelchen">Marth, Regine </span> (1993): Der grosse
Knochenkasten der Skulpturensammlung – Ein ungewöhnliches Objekt aus der
Zeit um 1100. – Jahrbuch der Berliner Museen 35, 57-70 </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""># <span class="kapitaelchen">Marth, Regine </span> (2023): The Mysterious Gandersheim Casket: Are There Any Hard Facts?. in: <span class="kapitaelchen">Waxenberger, Gaby / Kazzazi, Kerstin / Hines, John (eds.): </span>
Old English Runes. Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Approaches and
Methodologies with a Concise and Selected Guide to Terminologies,
Ergänzungsbände zum Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde 134,
127-136, Berlin</div><div class="">>>> download: <a href="https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110796834" class="">https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110796834</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""># <span class="kapitaelchen">Murray, C. </span> (1979): Les Techniques de Débitage de Métapodes de Petits Ruminants a Auvernier-Port. in: <span class="kapitaelchen">Camps-Fabrer, Henriette (ed.): </span> L'Industrie en Os et Bois de Cervidé durant le Néolithique et l’Âge des Métaux, 27-35, Paris</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""># <span class="kapitaelchen">Volbach, Wolfgang Fritz </span> (1923): Die Elfenbeinbildwerke, Bildwerke des Deutschen Museums 1, Berlin</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""># <span class="kapitaelchen">Wehrberger, Kurt </span> (2013): Die Rückkehr des Löwenmenschen - Geschichte, Mythos, Magie, Ulm </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Best wishes.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Christian<br class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></body></html>