During the 11th ICAZ-Conference at the Museum Nationale de Histoire Naturelle (MNHM) and the Université Piere et Marie Curie, Paris, France, a one day session was held by the WBRG on the 24th of August 2010 entitled
Raw and worked osseous materials
The session was organised by Alice Choyke, Sonia O Connor and Carole Vercoutère.
For programme and session abstract see session website or download the session program (pdf 720 kb).
Review of the session:
Choyke, Alice (2010): Worked Bone Research Group. – International Council for Archaeozoology Newsletter 11(2), 11-12
download (pdf 375 kb)
Proceedings have been published in the volume
Choyke, Alice M. & O’Connor, Sonia (2013):
From These Bare Bones: Raw Materials and the Study of Worked Osseous Objects
Oxford: Oxbow
ISBN 978-1-78297-211-2
Content:
- Choyke, Alice M. & O’Connor, Sonia: Introduction, xiii-xvi
- Choyke, Alice M.: Hidden Agendas: Ancient Raw Material Choice for Worked Osseous Objects in Central Europe and Beyond, 1-11
- Jéquier, Camille / Romandini, Matteo / Peresani, Marco: Osseous Retouchers from the Final Mousterian and Uluzzian Levels at the Fumane Cave (Verona, Italy)
- Almeida Évora, Marina: Raw Material Used in the Manufacture of Osseous Artefacts during the Upper Palaeolithic in Portugal
- Stone, Elisabeth A.: The Identification of Perishable Technologies through Usewear on Osseous Tools: Wear Patterns on Historic and Contemporary Tools as a Standard for Identifying Raw Materials Worked in the Late Upper Palaeolithic
- Scheinsohn, Vivian: Bone Material and Design Choices in Southern Patagonia
- Izeta, Andrés D. / Cattáneo, Roxana / Scattolin, M. Cristina / Cortés, Leticia I.: Changed into Tools. Camelid Bones from the Southern Calchaquí Valleys (Formative Period, Northwestern Argentina)
- Vitezović, Selena: Osseous Raw Materials in Vinča Culture
- Luik, Heidi: Seals, Seal Hunting and Worked Seal Bones in Estonian Coastal Region in the Neolithic and Bronze Age
- Colominas, Lídia: Specialization or Re-utilization? Study of the Selection Documented in a Bone-Working Refuse Assemblage from Roman Baetulo (Badalona, Spain)
- Farbstein, Rebecca: The Materiality of Production: Exploring Variability and Choice in the Production of Palaeolithic Portable Art made in Antler and Bone
- Cornaglia Fernandez, Jimena & Buc, Natacha: Evidence of Bone Technology on the Santa Fe´s Pampa Lagoons. The Laguna El Doce Site (Santa Fe Province, Argentina)
- Miotti, Laura & Marchionni, Laura: Beyond Stones: Bone as Raw Material for Tools in the Central Plateau of Santa Cruz, Argentinean Patagonia
- Becker, Cornelia: The Meaning of “Smoothing” Implements from the Levantine PPNB seen from the Basta Perspective
- Mannermaa, Kristiina & Rainio, Riitta: Tubular Bone Artefacts in Burial Context at Ajvide, Gotland c 2500 cal BC. Are they Musical Instruments?
- Tóth, Zsuzsanna: Strict Rules – Loose Rules: Raw Material Preferences at the Late Neolithic Site of Aszód, Central Hungary
- Meier, Jaqueline S.: More than Fun and Games? An Experimental Study of Worked Bone Astragali from Two Middle Bronze Age Hungarian Sites
- Moore, Katherine M.: Economic and Social Context of Bone Tools Use, Formative Bolivia
- O’Connor, Sonia: Exotic Materials Used in the Construction of Iron Age Sword Handles from South Cave, UK
- Hounslow, Oliver W. / Simpson, Joanna P. / Whalley, Laureen / Collins, Matthew J.: An Introduction to ZooMS (Zooarchaeology by Mass Spectromtry) for Taxonomic Identification of Worked and Raw Materials
- Ashby, Steven P.: Some Comments on the Identification of Cervid Species in Worked Antler
The book is avalable from Oxbow and Knochenarbeit.