From These Bare Bones: Raw Materials and the Study of Worked Osseous Objects

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Preface Jean-Denis Vigne, Christine Lefevre and Marylene Patou-Mathis Introduction to the volume Alice Choyke and Sonia O'Connor Keynote Paper 1. Hidden Agendas: Ancient Raw Material Choice for Worked Osseous Objects in Central Europe and Beyond Alice Choyke Raw Material Selection and Curation within Tool Types 2. Osseous Retouchers from the Final Mousterian and Uluzzian Levels at the Fumane Cave (Verona, Italy): Preliminary Results Camille Jequier, Matteo Romandini, Marco Peresani 3. Raw Material Used in the Manufacture of Osseous Artefacts during the Upper Palaeolithic in Portugal Marina AlmeidaEvora 4. 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 Elisabeth A. Stone 5. Bone Material and Design Choices in Southern Patagonia Vivian Scheinsohn 6. Changed into Tools. Camelid Bones from the Southern CalchaquiValleys (Formative Period, Northwestern Argentina) Andres D. Izeta, Roxana Cattaneo, M. Cristina Scattolin and Leticia I. Cortes 7. Osseous Raw Materials in Vinca culture Selena Vitezovic 8. Seals, Seal Hunting and Worked Seal Bones in Estonian Coastal Region in the Neolithic and Bronze Age Heidi Luik 9. Specialization or Re-utilization? Study of the Selection Documented in a Bone-Working Refuse Assemblage from Roman Baetulo (Badalona, Spain) Lidia Colominas Social Aspects of Raw Material Selection 10. The Materiality of Production: Exploring Variability and Choice in the Production of Palaeolithic Portable Art made in Antler and Bone Rebecca Farbstein 11. Evidence of Bone Technology on the Santa Fes Pampa Lagoons. The Laguna El Doce Site (Santa Fe Province, Argentina) Jimena Cornaglia Fernandez and Natacha Buc 12. Beyond Stones: Bone as Raw Material for Tools in the Central Plateau of Santa Cruz, Argentinean Patagonia Laura Miotti and Laura Marchionni 13. The Meaning ofSmoothing Implements from the Levantine PPNB seen from the Basta Perspective Cornelia Becker 14. Tubular Bone Artefacts in Burial Context at Ajvide, Gotland c 2500 cal BC. Are they Musical Instruments? Kristiina Manermaa and Riitta Rainio 15. Strict Rules- Loose Rules: Raw Material Preferences at the Late Neolithic Site of Aszod, Central Hungary Zsuzsanna Toth 16. More than Fun and Games? An Experimental Study of Worked Bone Astragali from Two Middle Bronze Age Hungarian Sites Jacqueline Meier 17. Economic and Social Context of Bone Tools Use, Formative Bolivia Katherine Moore New Methods of Materials Identification 18. Exotic Materials Used in the Construction of Iron Age Sword Handles from South Cave, UK. Sonia O'Connor 19. An Introduction to ZooMS (Zooarchaeology by Mass Spectromtry) for Taxonomic Identification of Worked and Raw Materials Oliver W. Hounslow, Joanna P. Simpson, Lauren Whalley, Matthew J. Collins 20. Some Comments on the Identification of Cervid Species in Worked Antler Steven Ashby

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