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Thank you for proposing such a meaningful and pratical session. I would be very interested to join in since I'm a worked bone scholar with limited training in zooarchaeology. The collaboration between me and other zooarchaeologists are necessary but we usually
do out work separately and lack of instant communication. I have noticed how the gap between our workflows and research focus may cause waste of time in repeated work in identification and data entry, or lead to missing some point becuase of lacking knowledge
in both side. Please let us know when the paper submission is open and I would love to contribute to the session.</div>
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<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, June 30, 2026 10:51<br>
<b>To:</b> ZOOARCH <ZOOARCH@jiscmail.ac.uk>; 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] Session for ICAZ 2027</font>
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Dear Colleagues, It is with great pleasure that I can announce that our session: 'The case of the missing waste bone data: Workflow gaps inrecognizing hard osseous manufactured material' has been accepted by the scientific committee</div>
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<div class="x_gmail_default" style=""><font size="4">Dear Colleagues,</font></div>
<div class="x_gmail_default" style=""><font size="4"> It is with great pleasure that I can announce that our session:</font></div>
<div class="x_gmail_default" style=""><font size="4"> '<font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="text-align:center; background-color:transparent"><i>The case of the missing waste bone data: Workflow gaps in</i></span><span style="text-align:center; background-color:transparent"><i>recognizing
hard osseous manufactured material'</i> </span></font></font></div>
<div class="x_gmail_default" style=""><font face="arial, sans-serif" size="4" style=""><span style="text-align:center; background-color:transparent">has been accepted by the scientific committee for the next ICAZ meeting in 2027 in Vancouver Canada. A number
of us have felt frustrated by the lack of coordination between faunal analysts and specialists in worked bone as concerns identification of waste bone from manufacturing - among other problems. We are expecting papers from people who have found solutions to
this common problems as well as hearing from specialists who are still wrestling with the problem.</span></font></div>
<div class="x_gmail_default" style=""><font face="arial, sans-serif" size="4" style=""><span style="text-align:center; background-color:transparent"> We see this session as more of a brain-storming opportunity with the aim of ultimately producing a reference
book to help faunal analysts recognize waste bone. The long version of the abstract I submitted to ICAZ is copied below.</span></font></div>
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<div class="x_gmail_default" style=""><font face="arial, sans-serif" size="4" style=""><span style="text-align:center; background-color:transparent">Best,</span></font></div>
<div class="x_gmail_default" style=""><font face="arial, sans-serif" size="4" style=""><span style="text-align:center; background-color:transparent">Alice Choyke</span></font></div>
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<i>The case of the missing waste bone data: Workflow gaps in </i></p>
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<i>recognizing hard osseous manufactured material </i></p>
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This methodological, hybrid session aims at improving cooperation between bone tool specialists and general faunal analysts. The goal is to create an open-source, downloadable, digital identification<b>
</b>book, available to all academic, archaeology-related institutions. Ideally, access to this reference book should help faunal analysts to recognize less obvious, bone fragments that are likely associated with manufacturing activities as well as very fragmented
pieces of worked bone. Since what constitutes worked bone and manufacturing will differ significantly depending on geographical location, time-period and degree of serial, industrial production the reference book will need to be continually revised. </p>
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In the best of all possible worlds, these two groups of specialists work together in an organic fashion. However, Although there are places where faunal analysts and specialists in worked hard osseous materials work together organically as a team, the stark
reality is that financial and time constraints often, make such direct cooperation difficult. Debris from manufacturing can be very difficult to recognize. Furthermore, the presence of very fragmented or unusually used objects can also be signaled by the presence
of macroscopically visible areas of polish from heavy use or even ritual handling of bone which was essentially unworked (or only minimally worked). Such objects must be properly identified during microscopic analysis, but their surfaces often have visible
polish or minor (but sometimes very specific) modifications, visible at low magnifications, which can <br>
provide grounds for their preliminary classification. </p>
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The session would revolve around developing general protocols to define what both groups of specialists would be interested in adding to their research repertoire and different possibilities of transmitting basic know-how between these two tightly related fields.
Papers should be kept short and be closely concerned with what waste bone from manufacturing sequences looks like in their research area</p>
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Possible points to cover:</p>
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1. Recognition/identification of waste and worked hard osseous material.</p>
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a. What type of tool marks are associated with bone tool reduction and where are they typically located?</p>
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b. How can these marks be distinguished from butchery marks and taphonomic damage (or can they be)?</p>
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c. What is the best way to disseminate this information?</p>
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d. What kind of information about worked hard osseous materials would be of most practical use to faunal analysts?</p>
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2. When there is no bone tool specialist - what minimal but basic information do zooarchaeologists need to take into account about the worked hard osseous materials they find in the faunal sample?</p>
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3. How should worked bone specialists organize their workflow in the absence of a zooarchaeologist?</p>
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4. Structural, storage problems with separation of small finds assemblages and objects found in the faunal assemblage.</p>
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5. How can the study of worked hard osseous material be included in zooarchaeology courses?</p>
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