The 14th Worked Bone Research Group conference was hosted by the University of Johannesburg, South Africa during the week of 30 August to 3 September 2021. and organised by Justin Bradfield. The conference was generously funded by the Palaeontological Scientific Trust (PAST), which allowed to waive all fees for students and African scholars.
This was the first time the conference had been hosted by an African institution, the first time by an institution in the Southern Hemisphere, and the first time that it had been online.
More information about the program can be found on the conference website. The session recordings are now online there as well.
In case of questions, please contact wbrg2021@uj.ac.za.
Proceedings have been published in the journal Quaternary International:
Bradfield, Justin (2023):
Two Million Years of Worked Osseous Technology: Proceedings of the 14th Meeting of the Worked Bone Research Group
Quaternary International 665-666
Content
- Bradfield, Justin: Two Million Years of Worked Osseous Technology: Proceedings of the 14th Meeting of the Worked Bone Research Group
download - Gates St-Pierre, Christian / Thurber, Beverley A. / Rhodes, Stephen / Wild, Markus: Where do we come from? What are we? Where are we going? A summary portrait of the Worked Bone Research Group members
download - Stammers, Rhiannon C. / Adams, Justin W. / Baker, Stephanie E. / Herries, Andy I. R.: Technology or taphonomy? A study of the 2.04–1.95 Ma bone tools from Drimolen Main Quarry, South Africa
download - Martellotta, Eva Francesca: Taking a closer look: The advantages and disadvantages of 3D imaging functional analysis of use-wear on bone retouchers
download - Orlowska, Justyna / Cyrek, K. / Kaczmarczyk, Grzegorz Piotr / Migal, Witold / Osipowicz, Grzegorz: Rediscovery of the Palaeolithic antler hammer from Biśnik Cave, Poland: New insights into its chronology, raw material, technology of production and function
download - Osipowicz, Grzegorz / Orlowska, Justyna / Zagorska, Ilga: Towards understanding the influence of Neolithisation for communities using the Zvejnieki cemetery, Latvia: A technological and functional analysis of the osseous artefacts discovered in the Late Mesolithic burial no 57 and Neolithic burial no 164
download - Baron, Justyna / Diakowski, Marcin / Badura, Beata / Stolarczyk, Tomasz: Bone, antler, and tooth objects from the late bronze/early Iron Age urnfields in south-western Poland
download - Vinayak: Perforated bone artifacts from Indor Khera and Rohana Khurd, Upper Ganga Plain, India
download - Buc, Natacha / Acosta, Alejandro A. / Rombolá, Lucía T.: Pierced antlers in the Southern Cone: Late Holocene hunter-gatherer groups of the low Paraná wetland
download - Vitezović, Selena: Bone technology in the Late Neolithic Vinča culture: Manufacturing pointed tools
download - Gál, Erika: The arrow bolt plane from the medieval archepiscopal residence at Esztergom (North Hungary)
download - Arampatzis, Christopher: Neolithic bone tool technology and typology from the region of four lakes, Western Macedonia, Greece
download - Altamirano Garcia, Manuel: Animals as a remarkable source of raw material: Osseous artifacts manufacture in 2nd millennium BC Southern Iberia. – Quaternary International 665-666, 145-159
download - Mărgărit, Monica: Barbed points from Romanian Gumelnița sites (second half of the 5th millennium BC)
download - Alaica, Aleksa K. & Bélisle, Véronique: Bone and antler artifact use in the 1st millennium CE of Cusco, Peru: Insights on textile production and food processing from the site of Ak’awillay
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