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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="">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="">This month’s bonetool is a container of yet not completely solved function found by Charlie Dixon on the banks of the river Thames:</div><div dir="auto" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><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="">A discussion on this interesting and peculiar object would still be welcome.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">The page for the <b class="">15th WBRG meeting in Paris (13.-17. May 2024)</b> has been updated with the information sent by Marianne Christensen and Nejma Goutas in their recent 3rd circular:</div><div class=""><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="">On behalf of Marianne Christensen and Nejma Goutas I would like to remind everybody interested to register <b class="">until the 10th of January</b> for the <b class="">15th WBRG-Meeting in Paris</b> from the <b class="">13th May to 17th May 2024</b>. You will find all necessary information here:</div><div class=""><a href="https://wbrg-2024.sciencesconf.org/registration" class="">https://wbrg-2024.sciencesconf.org/registration</a></div><div class=""><a href="https://wbrg-2024.sciencesconf.org/" class="">https://wbrg-2024.sciencesconf.org/</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">The instagram page of artist and ivory carver <b class="">Vero Schmolinski</b> has been added to the links to bone workers:</div><div class=""><a href="https://www.instagram.com/veroschmolinski/" class="">https://www.instagram.com/veroschmolinski/</a></div><div class=""><a href="https://www.wbrg.net/links/bone-workers/" class="">https://www.wbrg.net/links/bone-workers/</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I recently realised by chance that the link to the <b class="">WBRG Facebook group</b> on the Mailing list page actually did lead to the Facebook page of the ICAZ Archaeomalacology Working Group (AMWG). This is repaired now: </div><div class=""><a href="https://www.wbrg.net/bonetool-mailing-list/" class="">https://www.wbrg.net/bonetool-mailing-list/</a></div><div class="">The correct link to the WBRG Facebook group is</div><div class=""><a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/267678736761587/" class="">https://www.facebook.com/groups/267678736761587/</a></div><div class="">Anybody interested to become a member, please get in touch with Steve Ashby at <a href="mailto:steve.ashby@york.ac.uk" class="">steve.ashby@york.ac.uk</a>.</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">Backwell, Lucinda & d'Errico, Francesco </span>
(2004): The first use of bone tools: a reappraisal of the evidence from
Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania. – Palaeontologia Africana 40, 95-158</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""># <span class="kapitaelchen">Bradfield, Justin </span> (2020): Vanished technologies: the contribution of bone use-trace studies. – African Archaeological Review 37, 615-626</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""># <span class="kapitaelchen">Bradfield, Justin / Lombard, M. / Reynard, J. / Wurz, Sarah </span>
(2020): Further evidence for bow hunting and its implications more than
60 000 years ago: results of a use-trace analysis of the bone point
from Klasies River Main site. – Quaternary Science Reviews 236: 106295</div>>>> onlinw: <a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0277379120302572" class="">https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0277379120302572</a><br class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""># <span class="kapitaelchen">Cuenca-Solana, David / Manca, Laura / Romagnoli, F. / Campmas, Émilie </span>
(2023): Taphonomic effects in Archaelogical contexts: Ananalytical
experimental protocol to improve archaeomalacology research. – Paleo
hors série 2022, 396-413
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(2022): Technological and functional analysis of 80–60 ka bone wedges
from Sibudu (KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa). – Scientific Reports 12:
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Tierknochen aus dem mittelalterlichen Konstanz. Eine archäozoologische
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<br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""># <span class="kapitaelchen">Stone, Elisabeth Ann </span> (2010): Wear on Magdalenian bone tools: a new methodology for studying evidence of fiber industries. in: <span class="kapitaelchen">Andersson Strand, Eva / Gleba, Margarita / Mannering, Ulla / Munkholt, Cherine / Ringgaard, Maj (eds.): </span> North European Symposium for Archaeological Textiles X, Ancient Textiles Series 5, 225-232, Oxford</div><div class="">>>> download: <a href="https://www.academia.edu/download/3535002/Stone_2009_MagdaBoneWear.pdf" class="">https://www.academia.edu/download/3535002/Stone_2009_MagdaBoneWear.pdf</a></div></div><div class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div></div><div class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Best wishes.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Christian<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></div>_______________________________________________<br class="">Bonetools mailing list<br class=""><a href="mailto:Bonetools@listserv.niif.hu" class="">Bonetools@listserv.niif.hu</a><br class=""><a href="https://listserv.niif.hu/mailman/listinfo/bonetools" class="">https://listserv.niif.hu/mailman/listinfo/bonetools</a></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></body></html>