During the 6th International Council for Archaeozoology conference held 21. – 25. May 1990 at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington D.C., USA a session dealing with worked bone, antler, tusk and shell assemblages entitled
„Bone Tools Manufacture and Use“
was organised by Alice Choyke.
Session Abstract:
The session will examine such questions as the relationship between the physical properties of bone and bone tool manufacture,
techniques of bone working, the effects of selection of certain bones for secondary manufacture on bone assemblages used to monitor diet, and the economic implications of specialized bone tool manufacture.
(Source: preliminary conference circular)
Participants and papers given included the following:
• Daniella Bar-Yosef: A Neolithic Shell Bead Industry from Sinai
• Brooks: The Evolution of Bone Technology: Evidence From the Earliest Industries of
Southwestern France and Central Africa
• Douglas Campana: The Evolution of Bone Tool Manufacture in the Levantine Natufian and
Pre-Pottery Neolithic
• Alice Choyke: Craft Specialization and Bone Part Selection
• Godin: Osteotheque de Montreal Inc., and the „Story of Bone“
• Genevieve M. LeMoine: Production and Use of Bone and Antler Tools Among the Mackenzie Inuit
• Nagy: Bone and Antler Technology From the Trail River Site (Northern Yukon)
• Olsen: Mogollon Bone Hairpins as Status Symbols
• Francois Poplin: The magic of ruminant astagali
• Nerissa Russell: The place of the bone industry in the economy of prehistoric southeast Europe and South Asia
• Jörg Schibler: The lmportance of Bone and Antler as a Raw Material in Neolithic Switzerland
• Stolbunow: Archaeoanthropological and Archaeozoological Images of the Moustier Culture of the Grotto Chockurcha-2 in the Crimea
• Szuter: Artiodactyl Remains From the Prehistoric American Southwest: Ritual, Tools, and Food
• Webb: Ecological lmplications of Ivory Foreshafts From Underwater Sites in Florida
(Source: preliminary program and personal memories)
There was no joint publication of the session, but single papers have been published elsewhere, like:
- Campana, Douglas V. (1989): Natufian and Protoneolithic Bone Tools. The Manufacture and Use of Bone Implements in the Zagros and the Levant, British Archaeological Reports International Series 494, Oxford
- LeMoine, Genevieve M. (1997): Use Wear on Bone and Antler Tools of the Mackenzie Inuit, British Archaeological Reports International Series 679, Oxford
- Russell, Nerissa (2001): Neolithic Relations of Production: Insights from the Bone Tool Industry. in: Choyke, Alice M. & Bartosiewicz, Laszlo (eds.): Crafting Bone: Skeletal Technologies through Time and Space – Proceedings of the 2nd meeting of the (ICAZ) Worked Bone Research Group Budapest, 31 August – 5 September 1999, British Archaeological Reports International Series 937, 271-280, Oxford
Thanks to Alice Choyke, Danny Bar-Yosef, Nerissa Russell and Jörg Schibler for digging out these old informations.