The 15th WBRG International Meeting was held in Paris (France) from the 13th May to 17th May 2024 at the National Institute of Art History / Institut National de l’Histoire de l’Art (INHA).
It has been organised by Marianne Christensen & Nejma Goutas.
Organisational and Scientific Committee:
Marta Blasco Martín, Assistant-Professeur, Université de Valence, Espagne
Jean-François Goret, Pôle archéologique de la Ville de Paris, France
Alexandra Legrand-Pineau, URA 3225 MSH Mondes et UMR 8068 – TEMPS
Caroline Peschaux, UMR 8068 – TEMPS, France
Isabelle Rodet-Belarbi, INRAP & UMR 7264 – CEPAM, France
Jose-Miguel Tejero, Université de Barcelone, Espagne & UMR 8068 – TEMPS
Inquiries can be sent to wbrg2024paris@univ-paris1.fr.
More information can be found on the conference website.
Conference Program (pdf 1,4 MB)
Conference Poster
Some of the posters presented at the conference are available for download:
• Buc, Natacha (2024): Small tools on B one Raw Material. Hunter-Gatherer Assemblage from the Low Paraná Wetland
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• Kromotaroeno, Cynthia (2024): The story of needles and pins: what they tell us about Dorestad. an experimental journey – rewriting traces, poster presented at the 15th Meeting of the ICAZ Worked Bone Research Group Paris 2024, Leiden
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• Salicath Halvorsen, Asta (2024): Use-wear of worked bone objects from the Late Epipalaeolithicand Early Neolithic Levant to elucidate perishable material culture
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• Tordeur Champagne, Laura (2024): Red Deer Antler Tools found in an Early Bronze Age Tomb: a new Discovery in Valais, Switzerland
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Proceedings of the conference have been published online and open access as
Christensen, Marianne & Goutas, Nejma (2026):
Bone, Tools, and Traditions. 15th WBRG meeting Paris, May 13-17, 2024
Séances de la Société préhistorique française 24
Paris: Société préhistorique française
ISBN: 978-2-9588382-2-5
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- O’Connor, Sonia: Raw materials identifications: Developments and limits
download - Gates St-Pierre, Christian & Labonté, Jessica: Of beaver teeth and human hair: A tale of two experiments in usewear analysis.
download - Luciañèz-Triviño, Miriam & Liesau von Lettow Vorbeck, Corina: Ivory segmentation procedures with copper-based tools: Archaeological and experimental evidence.
download - Müller, Hildegard / Wojtczak, Dorota / Reynaud Savioz, Nicole / Schenk, Aurélie: Sledge runners or tools? Experimental and micro-wear approaches in the study of a curious assemblage of abraded hemi-mandibles of the Late Iron Age site “La Brocante” in Avenches (Switzerland).
download - Ferras, Mélanie: Flat and twisting chains: An analysis of the articulation systems of the bone pins from Chavín de Huántar (1200–500 BCE), Ancash (Peru).
download - Borao Álvarez, María Isabel / Galán Lopez, Ana Belén / Malgarini, Romain / Pétillon, Jean-Marc: Badegoulian eyed needles: New data on morphometric and technology from the rockshelters of Fritsch and Cuzoul de Vers, a synthesis.
download - Buc, Natacha / Acosta, Alejandro A. / Rombolá, Lucía T. / Hilsden, Jay / Paskulin, Lindsey / Carbonera, Mirian / Schneider, Fernanda / Loponte, Daniel / Speller, Camilla F.: Morphological and material variability in bone harpoon heads and stemmed points from the Lower Paraná Basin (Argentina) in the Late Holocene.
download - Blasco Martin, Marta: A synthetic review of the evolution of hard animal material crafts in a Mediterranean city: Valencia from its bones.
download - Mărgărit, Monica & Mirea, Pavel: Neolithisation of the Lower Danube as reflected by the osseous industry. Case study: Măgura “Buduiasca” settlement (Romania).
download - Tapia, Jesús / Cerezo-Fernández, Rosana / Portero, Rodrigo / Cueto, Marian / Jordá Pardo, Jesús Francisco / Àlvarez-Fernández, Esteban: Bone industry management in the Upper Paleolithic occupations at El Cierro Cave (Ribadesella, Asturias, Spain).
download - Greenfield, Haskel J.: “It’s the pit’s”: Human-modified animal bone from an Early Neolithic pithouse settlement (Blagotin) in central Serbia.
download - Vitezović, Selena: Bone manufacturing in the Late Neolithic of the Thrace region.
download - Gál, Erika / Osztas, Anett / Kreiter, Attila / Elöd Aradi, László / Vindus, Melinda: An unusual toolset from Late Neolithic – Early Copper Age graves in Hungary: Preliminary results.
download - Zidarov, Petar & Mitkova, Rositsa: Barbed points and harpoons from Chalcolithic sites (ca 4500–4350 BC) in Upper Thrace and the Western Black Sea coast in Bulgaria.
download - Vinayak, Ossiferous: Worked osseous assemblage from Iron Age site of Indor Khera, Upper Ganga Plains (India).
download - Sarmento Pedro, Henrique: The 13th century: A major economic turning point for craftspeople working with hard animal materials in Western France.
download - Koldžić, Vuk: Bone working in the Vinča culture: Specialised or not?.
download - Goutas, Nejma / Tejero, José-Miguel / Christensen, Marianne / Blasco Martin, Marta / Goret, Jean-Francois / Legrand, Alexandra / Peschaux, Caroline / Rodet-Belarbi, Isabelle: Hard animal material industries, archaeometry, and ethics: Towards a collective reflection on the judicious use of analyses and sampling
download - Chevallier, Aude / Gravina, Brad / Cretin, Catherine / Rolland, Pauline / Fourment, Nathalie: Advancing while curating: Protecting archaeological heritage while furthering our understanding of the past
download - Sabbini, Claudia & Choyke, Alice M.: Passing the baton: The bone tool materials from the archaeological site of Arslantepe Tell in Türkiye
download - Delassus, Marie: Bone carvings in Late Antique Egyptian furniture: From standardisation to inventiveness
download - Martínez-Polanco, María Fernanda / Micó, Cristian / Diaz, Claudia / Sánchez-Herrera, Luis Alberto: Investigating trapezoidal plaquettes crafted from white‑tailed deer bone at Cerro Juan Díaz (LS-3), Greater Coclé Culture Area (Panama)
download - Font, Ágnes & Daróczi-Szabo, Márta: Medieval and Early Modern ivory objects from the excavations of the Budapest History Museum, Hungary
download - Küchelmann, Hans Christian: Bone, antler and ivory artefacts in the Hanseatic North Atlantic trade
download - Altamirano, Manuel / Herrero-Otal, Maria / Piqué, Raquel / Palomo Pérez, Antoni / Homs, Anna / Maicas, Ruth / Martínez, Rafael M. / Martínez-Sevilla, Francisco: Approaches to the osseous industry from Cueva de los Murciélagos in Albuñol (Granada, Spain) and its possible relationship with plant-based technologies
download - Chondros, Konstantinos: A fresh look at the Thessalian Neolithic osseous tools: The study from Mandra (Northern Greece, fifth millennium cal. BC)
download - Zarka, Quentin: The manufacture of the Aegean boar’s tusk helmets: A case study from Middle Bronze Age Kolonna on Aegina, Greeces
download - Pop, Xenia & Virag, Cristian: A glimpse of the Eneolithic afterlife. Burial M30 from Urziceni-Vamă, Romania.
download - Bravo, Gabriela: Bone technology among archaic fishers, hunters, and gatherers of the northern and central coasts of Chile’s Semi-Arid region
download - Spithoven, Merel: Archery and quiver experiments with barbed bone and antler points
download - Luciañèz-Triviño, Miriam & Moreno Megías, Violeta: Sumptuary crafts from a technological perspective: Initial observations on Punic ostrich eggshells from Villaricos (South East Iberian peninsula) and Puig des Molins (Ibiza)
download - Kromotaroeno, Cynthia: It looks fishy! The role of bone needles and pins in fish processing at the early medieval riverine settlement of Dorestad (The Netherlands)
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