<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large">Dear Colleagues,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large"> The call for paper abstracts is now open for ICAZ 2027 in Vancouver (<a href="https://sway.cloud.microsoft/BFTVh4FAbfX6td4Y?ref=Link">https://sway.cloud.microsoft/BFTVh4FAbfX6td4Y?ref=Link</a>) for a worked bone session at the conference: "The Case of the Missing Waste BoneData: Workflow Gaps in Recognizing Hard Osseous Manufacture Material". The session details are copied below. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large"> This session is aimed at very practical problems <span style="background-color:transparent">generally </span><span style="background-color:transparent">faced by bone tool specialists and faunal analysts around the world - discontinuous workflow problems that disrupt mutual communications and information between the two groups of specialists. I would like to invite oral presentations and posters dealing with this subject both from colleagues who have worked to resolve these problems as well as from the many specialists who still struggle with missing manufacturing waste data as well as other important issues connected with the way finds from 'small find collections' and finds from faunal analyst collections or worked material are often separated or not recognized by faunal analysts. The plan is to publish papers from this session but also to invite papers from anyone who cannot attend the meeting in-person. Down the road, I want to <b>collaboratively</b> produce an open source, on-line reference manual that will allow zooarchaeologists to understand general and basic identification principles for manufacturing waste from all types of hard osseous/shell materials as well as their regional and temporal variants, work that can be expanded as the data corpus grows.</span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large"><span style="background-color:transparent"><br></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large"><span style="background-color:transparent">Alice Choyke</span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large"><p dir="ltr" id="gmail-paragraph_XPvetNcUvA3" style="margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 14px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:ArialNova,yugothic,sans-serif;font-size:18px;white-space:pre;background-color:rgb(234,234,234);max-height:56px"><span class="gmail-TextBodyEmph gmail-color_TextEmph" id="gmail-text_wAJDmt3lA27" style="font-family:ArialNova-Bold,sans-serif;font-weight:700;letter-spacing:0px;line-height:0">SESSION 31. The Case of the Missing Waste Bone Data: Workflow Gaps
in Recognizing Hard Osseous Manufactured Material</span></p><p dir="ltr" id="gmail-paragraph_kIvetNMUvA3" style="margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 14px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:ArialNova,yugothic,sans-serif;font-size:18px;white-space:pre;background-color:rgb(234,234,234);max-height:28px"><span class="gmail-" id="gmail-text_afGuqMQUVFB" style="line-height:0">SESSION TYPE: In-Person</span></p><p dir="ltr" id="gmail-paragraph_7dvetN6VvA3" style="margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 14px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:ArialNova,yugothic,sans-serif;font-size:18px;white-space:pre;background-color:rgb(234,234,234);max-height:56px"><span class="gmail-" id="gmail-text_1H6x9RBZtv0" style="line-height:0">ORGANIZERS: Alice Choyke, Central European University
(</span><a class="gmail-" id="gmail-text_EA6x9RxYtv0" href="mailto:choyke@gmail.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noreferrer" style="color:inherit">choyke@gmail.com</a><span class="gmail-" id="gmail-text_dU6x9RhZtv0" style="line-height:0">)</span></p><p dir="ltr" id="gmail-paragraph_KWvetNsUvA3" style="margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 14px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:ArialNova,yugothic,sans-serif;font-size:18px;white-space:pre;background-color:rgb(234,234,234);max-height:196px"><span class="gmail-" id="gmail-text_Ol2uBqZWnaC" style="line-height:0">ABSTRACT: This session concerns improved cooperation between bone tool
specialists and faunal analysts. The goal is to create an open-source,
downloadable, digital identification book of bone fragments associated with
manufacturing activities as well as very fragmented pieces of worked bone.
What constitutes worked bone and manufacturing wear will differ
significantly depending on geographical location, time-period and complexity
of production.</span></p><p dir="ltr" id="gmail-paragraph_jqvetNcVvA3" style="margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 14px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:ArialNova,yugothic,sans-serif;font-size:18px;white-space:pre;background-color:rgb(234,234,234);max-height:168px"><span class="gmail-" id="gmail-text_gT4haNDAQ00" style="line-height:0">These two groups of specialists should work together in an organic fashion.
However, although there are institutions where they do cooperate regularly,
the reality is that financial and time constraints often make cooperation
difficult. Debris from manufacturing or special use can be very difficult to
recognize, especially for fragmented objects. Such specimens also need to
be identified and separated out for further analysis.</span></p><p dir="ltr" id="gmail-paragraph_wjvetNMVvA3" style="margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 14px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:ArialNova,yugothic,sans-serif;font-size:18px;white-space:pre;background-color:rgb(234,234,234);max-height:112px"><span class="gmail-" id="gmail-text_yRWnjfNeuE4" style="line-height:0">The aim of the session is also to generate protocols reflecting what both
groups of specialists would be interested in adding to their research
repertoire and exploring different possibilities of transmitting basic know-
how between these two related fields.</span></p><p dir="ltr" id="gmail-paragraph_J2wetN6WvA3" style="margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 14px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:ArialNova,yugothic,sans-serif;font-size:18px;white-space:pre;background-color:rgb(234,234,234);max-height:28px"><span class="gmail-" id="gmail-text_W7muay-mDD_" style="line-height:0">Areas to cover:</span></p><p dir="ltr" id="gmail-paragraph_WxvetNsVvA3" style="margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 14px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:ArialNova,yugothic,sans-serif;font-size:18px;white-space:pre;background-color:rgb(234,234,234);max-height:28px"><span class="gmail-" id="gmail-text_e-sIJwCSiv6" style="line-height:0">1. Recognition/identification of waste and worked hard osseous material.</span></p><p dir="ltr" id="gmail-paragraph_vFwetNcWvA3" style="margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 14px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:ArialNova,yugothic,sans-serif;font-size:18px;white-space:pre;background-color:rgb(234,234,234);max-height:28px"><span class="gmail-" id="gmail-text_HIOdX6v9ckC" style="line-height:0">a. Types of tool marks associated with bone tool reduction</span></p><p dir="ltr" id="gmail-paragraph_69wetNMWvA3" style="margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 14px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:ArialNova,yugothic,sans-serif;font-size:18px;white-space:pre;background-color:rgb(234,234,234);max-height:56px"><span class="gmail-" id="gmail-text_YWdk0EXDfl0" style="line-height:0">b. Distinguishing manufacturing and use wear marks from butchery marks
and taphonomic damage</span></p><p dir="ltr" id="gmail-paragraph__w6ly0s3Gb-" style="margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 14px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:ArialNova,yugothic,sans-serif;font-size:18px;white-space:pre;background-color:rgb(234,234,234);max-height:56px"><span class="gmail-" id="gmail-text_y3yRSf7lKWD" style="line-height:0">c. The best way to disseminate this information and be of most practical use
to faunal analysts?</span></p><p dir="ltr" id="gmail-paragraph_n07ly064Gb-" style="margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 14px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:ArialNova,yugothic,sans-serif;font-size:18px;white-space:pre;background-color:rgb(234,234,234);max-height:56px"><span class="gmail-" id="gmail-text_DsKLVF90Ig7" style="line-height:0">2. Basic information that should be recorded about worked bone in faunal
samples?</span></p><p dir="ltr" id="gmail-paragraph_a77ly0M4Gb-" style="margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 14px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:ArialNova,yugothic,sans-serif;font-size:18px;white-space:pre;background-color:rgb(234,234,234);max-height:56px"><span class="gmail-" id="gmail-text_8QMBtN8LxK9" style="line-height:0">3. Non-integration in storage of “small finds” and objects found in the faunal
assemblage.</span></p><p dir="ltr" id="gmail-paragraph_NE7ly0c4Gb-" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:ArialNova,yugothic,sans-serif;font-size:18px;white-space:pre;background-color:rgb(234,234,234);max-height:56px"><span class="gmail-" id="gmail-text_hUBofhJg0g-" style="line-height:0">4. Integrating the study of worked hard osseous material into
zooarchaeology courses.</span></p></div></div>