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-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 <b class="">bonetool</b> is the amazing Egyptian Aphrodite figurine from the collection of the Rodin Museum, presented by Marie Delassus to the participants of the excursions to the Louvre during the WBRG meeting in Paris in May:</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="">I would also like to point your attention to the website "Rodin et l’Art Égyptien“, which contains quite an amount of other bone and ivory objects</div><div class=""><a href="https://egypte.musee-rodin.fr/fr/collections/mobilier-en-os-et-en-ivoire/elements-dameublement" class="">https://egypte.musee-rodin.fr/fr/collections/mobilier-en-os-et-en-ivoire/elements-dameublement</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Juan Lopez-Padilla is pleased to announce the publication of the proceedings of the workshop <strong class="">Metal and worked bone materials in Prehistoric Europe. From Iberia to the Carpathians </strong>held in October 2021 in Alicante, Spain. <a href="https://www.marqalicante.com/Publicaciones/es/-P177.html" class="">https://www.marqalicante.com/Publicaciones/es/-P177.html</a></div><div class="">This volume is now also referenced on the workshop page:</div><div class=""><a href="https://www.wbrg.net/meetings/workshop-2021-alicante/" class="">https://www.wbrg.net/meetings/workshop-2021-alicante/</a></div><div class="">Juan has 30 printed copies he can send to WBRG colleagues as long as stocks last. Anyone interested in receiving a copy, please send a full postal address to Juan López Padilla via <a href="mailto:japadi@diputacionalicante.es" class="">japadi@diputacionalicante.es</a>.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Alice Choyke informed me that the book "<a href="https://www.wbrg.net/biblio-detail?id=4800" class=""><b class="">Bone Objects in Aquincum</b></a>“ published by Mária Bíró, Alice Choyke , Lóránt Vass and Ádám Vecsey (2012), recently added to the WBRG database, can still be ordered via </div><div class=""><a href="http://www.aquincum.hu/en/kiadvanyok/aquincumi-muzeum-gyujtemenyei-sorozat/" class="">http://www.aquincum.hu/en/kiadvanyok/aquincumi-muzeum-gyujtemenyei-sorozat/</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">A new book about <b class="">Antler and Bone Working from Ipswich</b> written by Ian Riddler, Nicola Trzaska-Nartowski and Shona Hatton has recently been published by East Anglian Archaeology:</div><div class=""><a href="https://www.pen-and-sword.co.uk/EAA-181-An-Early-Medieval-Craft-Antler-and-Bone-Working-from-Ipswich-Excavations-1974-1994-Hardback/p/49933?mc_cid=35f669eeeb&mc_eid=5884e981bf" class="">https://www.pen-and-sword.co.uk/EAA-181-An-Early-Medieval-Craft-Antler-and-Bone-Working-from-Ipswich-Excavations-1974-1994-Hardback/p/49933?mc_cid=35f669eeeb&mc_eid=5884e981bf</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Vinayak kindly shared a link to an old publication about <b class="">Indian ivories</b> by V. P. Dwivedi (1976):</div><div class=""><a href="https://archive.org/details/IndianIvories/mode/2up" class="">https://archive.org/details/IndianIvories/mode/2up</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">The new volume of the EXARC Journal contains a paper about <b class="">Mesolithic drilling techniques</b>:</div><div class=""><a href="https://exarc.net/ark:/88735/10760" class="">https://exarc.net/ark:/88735/10760</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""></div><div class=""></div><div class="">And as usual, here are the new <b class="">References</b> added to the database:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""># <span class="kapitaelchen">Alcalde, Verónica / Covarrubias, Gabriela / Flores, Carola </span> (2024): Catálogo arqueológico. Anzuelos de concha del norte de Chile: Legado de antiguas comunidades pescadoras, La Serena</div><div class="">>>> download: <a href="http://arqueologiacostera.cl/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Catalogo-Anzuelos-completo_-DIGITAL.pdf" class="">http://arqueologiacostera.cl/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Catalogo-Anzuelos-completo_-DIGITAL.pdf</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""># <span class="kapitaelchen">Amkreutz, Luc & Spithoven, Merel </span> (2019): Hunting beneath the waves. Bone and antler points from North Sea Doggerland off the Dutch coast. in: <span class="kapitaelchen">Groß, D. / Lübke, Harald / Meadows, J. / Jantzen, Detlef (eds.): </span>
Working at the Sharp End: From Bone and Antler to Early Mesolithic Life
in Northern Europe, Untersuchungen und Materialien zur Steinzeit in
Schleswig-Holstein und im Ostseeraum 10, 1-22, Neumünster</div><div class="">>>> download: <a href="https://www.academia.edu/39068745/Hunting_beneath_the_waves_Bone_and_antler_points_from_North_Sea_Doggerland_off_the_Dutch_coast" class="">https://www.academia.edu/39068745/Hunting_beneath_the_waves_Bone_and_antler_points_from_North_Sea_Doggerland_off_the_Dutch_coast</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""># <span class="kapitaelchen">Aubet, Maria Eugenia </span> (1979): Marfiles fenicios del Bajo Guadalquivir. I: Cruz del Negro, Studia Archaeologica 52, Universidad de Valladolid</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""># <span class="kapitaelchen">Delassus, Marie </span> (2012): Appliques en os et ivoire. in: <span class="kapitaelchen">Bel, Nicolas / Giroire, Cécile / Gombert-Meurice, Florence / Gatier, Pierre-Louis (eds.): </span> L'Orient romain et byzantin au musée du Louvre, Paris, 134-135, Arles</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""># <span class="kapitaelchen">Delassus, Marie </span> (2020): Les appliques
de mobilier en os et ivoire dans l’Égypte romaine et byzantine:
exemples des collections du musée du Louvre et du musée Rodin. –
Bulletin de la société d’archéologie Copte 59, 47-84#</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""># Dwivedi, V. P. (1976): Indian Ivories, Delhi, India</div><div class="">>>> online: <a href="https://archive.org/details/IndianIvories/mode/2up" class="">https://archive.org/details/IndianIvories/mode/2up</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""># <span class="kapitaelchen">Fitches, Andrew & Elliott, Benjamin </span>
(2024): Knowing the Drill: Investigating Mesolithic Perforation
Technologies Through Experiment, Traceology, and Photogrammetry. – EXARC
Journal 2024/3</div><div class="">>>> online: <a href="https://exarc.net/ark:/88735/10760" class="">https://exarc.net/ark:/88735/10760</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""># <span class="kapitaelchen">Groß, D. / Lübke, Harald / Meadows, J. / Jantzen, Detlef </span>
(2019): Working at the Sharp End: From Bone and Antler to Early
Mesolithic Life in Northern Europe, Untersuchungen und Materialien zur
Steinzeit in Schleswig-Holstein und im Ostseeraum 10, Neumünster</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""># <span class="kapitaelchen">Grünberg, Judith M. / Gramsch, Bernhard / Petersen, Erik Brinch / Plonka, Tomasz / Meller, Harald </span>
(2023): Mesolithic Art – Abstraction, Decoration, Messages, Tagungen
des Landesmuseums für Vorgeschichte Halle 26, Halle (Saale)</div><div class="">>>>: <a href="https://archaeologie-und-buecher.de/shop/archaeologie-sachsen-anhalt/tagungen-des-landesmuseum-fuer-vorgeschichte-halle-saale/tagung-s-a-band-26-mesolithic-art-abstraction-decoration-messages-mesolithische-kunst-abstraktion-dekoration-botschaften/" class="">https://archaeologie-und-buecher.de/shop/archaeologie-sachsen-anhalt/tagungen-des-landesmuseum-fuer-vorgeschichte-halle-saale/tagung-s-a-band-26-mesolithic-art-abstraction-decoration-messages-mesolithische-kunst-abstraktion-dekoration-botschaften/</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""># <span class="kapitaelchen">Lopez-Padilla, Juan Antonio & Provenzano, Noëlle </span> (2023): Metal and Worked Bone Materials in Prehistoric Europe. From Iberia to the Carpathians, Alicante</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""># <span class="kapitaelchen">Marangou, Lila </span> (1976): Bone Carvings from Egypt. I. Graeco-Roman Period. Benaki Museum Athens, Tübingen</div><div class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div class=""><div class=""># <span class="kapitaelchen">Muhl, Arnold </span> (1990): Der Bamberger und der Camminer Schrein. Zwei im Mammenstil verzierte Prunkkästchen der Wikingerzeit. – Offa 47, 241-420</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""># <span class="kapitaelchen">Orlowska, Justyna & Osipowicz, Grzegorz </span>
(2017): Searching for the function of the Early Holocene heavy duty
bevel-ended tools: remarks from experimental and use-wear studies. –
Arheologiâ Evrazijskih Stepej 2017, 103-121</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""># <span class="kapitaelchen">Riddler, Ian D. / Trzaska-Nartowski, Nicola I. A. / Hatton, Shona </span>
(2023): An Early Medieval Craft: Antler and Bone Working from Ipswich.
Excavations 1974–1994, East Anglian Archaeology 181, Gressenhall</div><div class="">>>> ordering: <a href="https://www.pen-and-sword.co.uk/EAA-181-An-Early-Medieval-Craft-Antler-and-Bone-Working-from-Ipswich-Excavations-1974-1994-Hardback/p/49933" class="">https://www.pen-and-sword.co.uk/EAA-181-An-Early-Medieval-Craft-Antler-and-Bone-Working-from-Ipswich-Excavations-1974-1994-Hardback/p/49933</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""># <span class="kapitaelchen">Rodziewicz, E. </span> (2016): Ivory and Bone Sculpture in ancient Alexandria, Alexandria</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""># <span class="kapitaelchen">Seewald, otto </span> (1942): Zwei Baggerfunde von Knochenflöten aus der Weser. – Mannus 34(1/2), 187-194</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""># <span class="kapitaelchen">Spithoven, Merel </span> (2018): Mesolithic
Doggerland, where the points are small. A functional analysis of the
small barbed bone points, Master of Science thesis, Leiden University,
Leiden</div><div class="">>>> download: <a href="https://www.academia.edu/44808535/Mesolithic_Doggerland_where_the_points_are_small_A_functional_analysis_of_the_small_barbed_bone_points" class="">https://www.academia.edu/44808535/Mesolithic_Doggerland_where_the_points_are_small_A_functional_analysis_of_the_small_barbed_bone_points</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""># <span class="kapitaelchen">Spithoven, Merel / Dekker, Joannes / Aleo, Alessandro </span> (2024): What points can tell. Artefact biographies of barbed bone and antler points from Mesolithic Doggerland. in: <span class="kapitaelchen">Verbaas, Annemieke / Langejans, Geeske H. J. / Chan, Ben (eds.): </span>
Artefact Biographies from Mesolithic and Neolithic Europe and Beyond.
Papers in honour of Professor Annelou van Gijn, Analecta Praehistorica
Leidensia 52, 141-156, Leiden</div><div class="">>>> Download: <a href="https://www.academia.edu/122149168/What_points_can_tell_Artefact_biographies_of_barbed_bone_and_antler_points_from_Mesolithic_Doggerland" class="">https://www.academia.edu/122149168/What_points_can_tell_Artefact_biographies_of_barbed_bone_and_antler_points_from_Mesolithic_Doggerland</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""># <span class="kapitaelchen">Villa, Paola & d'Errico, Francesco </span> (2001): Bone and ivory points in the Lower and Middle Paleolithic of Europe. – Journal of Human Evolution 41, 69-112</div><div class="">>>> download: <a href="https://www.academia.edu/28895295/Bone_and_ivory_points_in_the_Lower_and_Middle_Paleolithic_of_Europe" class="">https://www.academia.edu/28895295/Bone_and_ivory_points_in_the_Lower_and_Middle_Paleolithic_of_Europe</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""># <span class="kapitaelchen">Weniger, Gerd-Christian </span> (1992): Function and form: an ethnoarchaeological analysis of barbed points from northern hunter-gatherers. in: <span class="kapitaelchen">Gallay, A. (ed.): </span>
Ethnoarchéologie. Justification, Problèmes, Limites. XII Rencontres
Internationales d'Archéologie et d'Histoire d'Antibes, 257-268,
Juan-les-Pins</div><div class="">>>> download: <a href="https://www.academia.edu/1997929/Function_and_form_an_ethnoarchaeological_analysis_of_barbed_points_from_northern_hunter_gatherers" class="">https://www.academia.edu/1997929/Function_and_form_an_ethnoarchaeological_analysis_of_barbed_points_from_northern_hunter_gatherers</a></div><div class=""> </div></div></div></div></div></div><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 class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Best wishes.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Christian</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><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="">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></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>