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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="">The June <b class="">bonetool of the month</b> are two 19th century erotic Netsuke carvings from Japan:</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=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I am still grateful for suggestions of new bonetools of the month from the community. Particularly welcome are examples from outside of Europe in order to break-up the still prevailing eurocentrism.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">The <b class="">Paris meeting</b> page has been updated. It shows the group picture and the conference poster. The final program is available now for download as well as two posters from the poster session by Natacha Buc and Laura Tordeur Champagne:</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="">Anybody else who wants his or her poster to become available for download, please send me the file.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">The list of <b class="">Bone Workers</b> has a new member: </div><div class="">Ian Dennis from Cardiff University has been added after his participation in the WBRG meeting in Paris. </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 who want to get in touch with him, here is his mail address: <a href="mailto:dennisit@cardiff.ac.at" class="">dennisit@cardiff.ac.at</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Jacqui Mulville has provided me with a set of nine <b class="">short video guides</b> (1 minute each) showing antler working. As she convincingly mentioned in her presentation in Paris, the purpose of these is not a scientific experimental approach to analyse techniques, but to raise interest and provide education for the wider public for ancient materials and handicrafts. A definitely important task in order to keep them alive. Please have a look here: </div><div class=""><a href="https://guerillaarchaeology.com/video-guides-to-antler-crafts/" class="">https://guerillaarchaeology.com/video-guides-to-antler-crafts/</a></div><div class="">The videos are linked on the WBRG website now at </div><div class=""><a href="https://www.wbrg.net/links/various-links/" class="">https://www.wbrg.net/links/various-links/</a></div><div class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">And as usual, here are the references added this month.</div><div class=""><div class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div></div><div class=""><div class=""><b class="">References</b> added to the database:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""># <span class="kapitaelchen">Bardiès-Fronty, Isabelle & Dunn-Vaturi, Anne-Elizabeth </span> (2012): Art du jeu. Jeu dans l'art de Babylone à l' occident médiéval, Paris</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""># <span class="kapitaelchen">Buc, Natacha </span> (2024): Small tools on Bone Raw Material. Hunter-Gatherer Assemblage from the Low Paraná
Wetland, poster presented at the 15th Meeting of the ICAZ Worked Bone
Research Group Paris 2024</div><div class="">>>> download: <a href="https://www.wbrg.net/wp-content/uploads/Buc-etal-2024-Poster-WBRG-Paris.pdf" class="">https://www.wbrg.net/wp-content/uploads/Buc-etal-2024-Poster-WBRG-Paris.pdf</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""># <span class="kapitaelchen">Dalton, O. M. </span> (1909): Catalogue of
the Ivory Carvings of the Christian Era, with Examples of Mohammedan Art
and Carvings in Bone in the Department of British and Mediaeval
Antiquities and Ethnography of the British Museum of the British Museum,
London</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""># <span class="kapitaelchen">Drake Boehm, Barbara </span> (2012): Les échecs. in: <span class="kapitaelchen">Bardiès-Fronty, Isabelle & Dunn-Vaturi, Anne-Elizabeth (eds.): </span> Art du jeu. Jeu dans l'art de Babylone à l' occident médiéval, 28-33, Paris</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""># <span class="kapitaelchen">Lihl, Christina / Hoke, Nadja / Fiderer, Christoph T. / Heurich, Marco / Grupe, Gisela </span> (2013): The microstructural organization of European roe deer bone (Capreolus capreolus). in: <span class="kapitaelchen">Grupe, Gisela / McGlynn, George / Peters, Joris (eds.): </span> Beiträge zur Anthropologie und Paläoanatomie, Documenta Archaeobiologiae, 154-161, Rahden</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""># <span class="kapitaelchen">Longhurst, Margaret H. </span> (1926): English Ivories, London</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""># <span class="kapitaelchen">Osipowicz, Grzegorz / Piličiauskienė, Giedrė / Piliciauskas, Gytis / Orlowska, Justyna </span>
(2024): Animal tooth pendants from Spiginas and Donkalnis as
instigators of a discussion on technological traditions, intergroup
exchange and mobility in the early and middle Holocene in Central and
northeastern Europe. – Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 57:
104588</div><div class="">>>>DOI: <a href="https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2024.104588" class="">https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2024.104588</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""># <span class="kapitaelchen">Rodet-Belarbi, Isabelle & Cheval, Carole </span> (2020): Têtes humérales et fémorales de bœuf retaillées: essai de synthèse sur des objets singuliers (VIe-XIIIe siècles). in: <span class="kapitaelchen">Henigfeld, Yves / Husi, Philippe / Ravoire, Fabienne (eds.): </span> L'objet au Moyen Âge et à l’époque moderne: fabriquer, échanger, consommer et recycler, 259-278, Turnhout</div><div class="">>>> download: <a href="https://hal.science/hal-02505271" class="">https://hal.science/hal-02505271</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""># <span class="kapitaelchen">Schädler, Ulrich </span> (2012): Osslelets et dés. in: <span class="kapitaelchen">Bardiès-Fronty, Isabelle & Dunn-Vaturi, Anne-Elizabeth (eds.): </span> Art du jeu. Jeu dans l'art de Babylone à l' occident médiéval, 92, Paris</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""># <span class="kapitaelchen">Sharples, Niall & Dennis, Ian </span> (2016): Combs and comb production in the Western Isles during the Norse period. in: <span class="kapitaelchen">Hunter, Fraser & Sheridan, Alison (eds.): </span> Ancient Lives. Ojects, people and place in early Scotland. Essays for David V Clarke on his 70th birthday, 331-357, Leiden</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""># <span class="kapitaelchen">Tarroux, Stéphane </span> (2012): Fortunes de Palamède. in: <span class="kapitaelchen">Bardiès-Fronty, Isabelle & Dunn-Vaturi, Anne-Elizabeth (eds.): </span> Art du jeu. Jeu dans l'art de Babylone à l' occident médiéval, 24-26, Paris</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""># <span class="kapitaelchen">Tejero, José-Miguel / Cheronet, Olivia /
Gelabert, Pere / Zagorc, Brina / Àlvarez-Fernandez, Esteban / Arias,
Pablo / Averbouh, Aline / Bar-Oz, Guy / Barzilai, Omry / Belfer-Cohen,
Anna / Bosch, Marjolein D. / Brück, Florian / Cueto, Marian / Dockner,
Martin / Fullola, Josep Maria / Gárate, Diego / Giannakoulis, Michael /
González, Cynthia / Jakeli, Nino / Mangado, Xavier / Meshveliani, Tengiz
/ Neruda, Petr / Nigst, Philip / Ontañón, Roberto / Shemer, Maayan /
Simková, Petra G. / Tapia, Jesus / Sánchez de la Torre, Marta / Schwab,
Catherine / Weber, Gerhard / Pinhasi, Ron </span> (2024): Cervidae
antlers exploited to manufacture prehistoric tools and hunting
implements as a reliable source of ancient DNA. – Helyon 10, 1-27</div><div class="">>>> DOI: <a href="https://doi.org/10.1016/j.heliyon.2024.e31858" class="">https://doi.org/10.1016/j.heliyon.2024.e31858</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""># <span class="kapitaelchen">Tordeur Champagne, Laura </span> (2024): Red
Deer Antler Tools found in an Early Bronze Age Tomb: a new Discovery in
Valais, Switzerland, poster presented at the 15th Meeting of the ICAZ
Worked Bone Research Group Paris 2024</div><div class="">>>> download: <a href="https://www.wbrg.net/wp-content/uploads/Tordeur-Champagne-2024-WBRG-Paris.pdf" class="">https://www.wbrg.net/wp-content/uploads/Tordeur-Champagne-2024-WBRG-Paris.pdf</a></div></div></div><div dir="auto" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><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</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></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></body></html>