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Very sad news about Sabine. She was a real force in Roman worked bone studies and all of her work remains so valuable. She set a standard for publication that was way ahead of its time. A very sad day,</div>
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<b>Sent:</b> 02 December 2025 10:13 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Mailing list for archaeologists of the research group for the study of object and waste of bone, antler. ivory and horn. <bonetools@listserv.niif.hu><br>
<b>Subject:</b> [Bonetools] Sabine Deschler-Erb</font>
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<div class="x_gmail_default" style="font-size:large">Dear Colleagues,</div>
<div class="x_gmail_default" style="font-size:large"> I have learned that our colleague, Sabine Deschler-Erb, has died after a long illness. Sabine was a full and very active professor in the Department of Ancient Civilizations at the University of Basel
in Switzerland. She worked in a number of research areas as a zooarchaeologist, focused on Roman Studies, notably including Roman worked bone. Until several years ago, Sabine was a long-time editor at
<i>Instrumentum, </i>a journal dealing with ancient technology and particularly worked bone. For her PhD she studied bone tool manufacturing from Roman Augusta Raurica and produced a two volume,seminal study of these several thousands of objects. </div>
<div class="x_gmail_default" style="font-size:large"> Most of all, she was a hard-working, kind person with a very positive outlook on life. It is very difficult for me to imagine the laboratory at the University of Basel without her. Her death is a personal
loss and a loss for scholarly work on the European part of the Roman Empire.</div>
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<div class="x_gmail_default" style="font-size:large">Alice Choyke</div>
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