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Author International Council for Archaeozoology. Worked Bone Research Group. Meeting (13th : 2019 : Université de Montréal)

Title Bones at a crossroads : integrating worked bone research with archaeometry and social zooarchaeology / edited by Markus Wild, Beverly A. Thurber, Stephen Rhodes & Christian Gates St-Pierre
Published Leiden : Sidestone Press, [2021]

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Contents Intro -- Introduction -- Christian Gates St-Pierre, Markus Wild, Beverly A. Thurber, and Stephen Rhodes -- Osseous arrowheads in the Iron Age of the Upper Ganga Plains -- Vinayak -- A typo-technological study of bone artifacts from Agiabir, India (c. 2300-600 BC/BCE) -- Ravi Shankar, Pramod P. Joglekar, Sharada Channarayapatna, and Ashok Kumar Singh -- Magnifying the differences: Investigating variability in Dorset Paleo-Inuit organic material culture using microscopic analysis -- Matilda I. Siebrecht, Sean P. A. Desjardins, Sarah M. Hazell, Susan Lofthouse, Elsa Cencig, Kathryn Kotar, Peter D. Jordan, and Annelou van Gijn -- Antler as raw material among hunter-gatherer groups from the Pampean Region (Argentina) -- Natacha Buc, Alejandro A. Acosta, and Lucía T. Rombolá -- Osseous artifacts from the Maros-culture necropolis at Ostojićevo (northern Serbia) -- Selena Vitezović -- An antler workshop in a Germanic settlement in Nitra, Slovakia -- Gertrúda Březinová and Erik Hrnčiarik -- The worked bone and tooth assemblage from Piaçaguera: Insights and challenges -- Daniela Klokler -- Traceological evaluation of bone instruments as an indirect indicator: Rebuilding textile technology during the Ceramic period on Mocha Island (Chile) -- Helga Inostroza Rojas -- A microscopic view of Maya needle and perforator production at Ucanal, Guatemala -- Carolyn Freiwald, Christina Halperin, Camille Dubois-Francoeur, Caroline Schlinsog, and Kimberly A. Bauer -- Warm it up! Using experimental archaeology to test shark teeth extraction hypotheses -- Simon-Pierre Gilson and Andrea Lessa -- Crafting white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) bone and antler at Cerro Juan Díaz (LS-3), Greater Coclé Culture Area, Panama -- María Fernanda Martínez-Polanco, Olman Solís Alpízar, Luis Alberto Sánchez Herrera, Máximo Jiménez Acosta, and Richard G. Cooke
Preliminary spatial analysis of the morphologically identifiable bone tools from an Early Bronze Age III domestic building in a residential neighborhood house at Tell eṣ-Ṣâfi/Gath (Stratum E5c) -- Sarah J. Richardson, Haskel J. Greenfield, Tina L. Greenfield, and Aren M. Maeir -- A Woodland-period bone tool industry on the northern Gulf of Mexico coastal plain -- Gregory A. Waselkov, Sarah E. Price, Alexandra Stenson, Carla S. Hadden, and Long Dinh -- The many dimensions of a bone -- Marie-Ève Boisvert, Claire St-Germain, and Christian Gates St-Pierre -- Blank Page -- Blank Page
Summary Bone tool studies are at a crossroads. A current path is to go beyond the concatenation of methods or concepts borrowed from other disciplines and aim instead at a truly integrated approach that is more in line with the objectives of interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary research. The papers in this volume follow this direction by adopting various forms of dialogue and integration between old and new methods and approaches, including technological analysis,
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on March 24, 2022)
Subject Bone implements, Prehistoric -- Congresses
Bone carving, Prehistoric -- Congresses
Tools, Prehistoric -- Congresses
Tools, Prehistoric
Bone carving, Prehistoric
Bone implements, Prehistoric
Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings
Form Electronic book
Author Wild, Markus, editor.
Thurber, B. A. (Beverly A.), editor.
Rhodes, Stephen, editor
Gates St. Pierre, Christian, editor.
ISBN 9789464270082
946427008X