From these bare bones
Subtitle: raw materials and the study of worked osseous objects
By: edited by Alice Choyke and Sonia O'Connor
Contributors: Choyke, Alice Mathea, editor, author; O'Connor, Sonia A., editor, author
Publisher: Oxbow Books
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Oxford
Language: eng
Number of pages: 222
ISBN-13: 9781782972112
Subjects: Prehistoric Bone implements; Congresses; Prehistoric Bone carving; Prehistoric Tools; Prehistoric Art; Excavations (Archaeology)
Notes: "Proceedings of the Raw Materials Session at the 11th ICAZ Conference, Paris, 2010."

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Hidden agendas: ancient raw material choice for worked osseous objects in central Europe and beyond / Alice Choyke; title: Osseous retouchers from the final Mousterian and Uluzzian levels at the Fumane Cave (Verona, Italy): preliminary results / Camille Jéquier, Matteo Romandini and Marco Peresani; title: Raw material used in the manufacture of osseous artefacts during the Upper Palaeolithic in Portugal / Marina Almeida Évora; title: 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; title: Bone material and design choices in Southern Patagonia / Vivian Scheinsohn; title: Changed into tools: camelid bones from the Southern Calchaquíes Valleys (Formative Period, Northwestern Argentina) / Andrés D. Izeta, Roxana Cattáneo, M. Cristina Scattolin and Leticia I. Cortés; title: Osseous raw materials in Vinca culture / Selena Vitezovic; title: Seals, seal hunting and worked seal bones in Estonian coastal region in the Neolithic and Bronze Age / Heidi Luik; title: Specialization or re-utilization? Study of the selection documented in a bone-working refuse assemblage from Roman Baetulo (Badalona, Spain) / Lídia Colominas; title: The materiality of production: exploring variability and choice in the production of palaeolithic portable art made in antler and bone / Rebecca Farbstein; title: Evidence of bone technology on the Santa Fés Pampa lagoons: the Laguna el Doce Site (Santa Fe Province, Argentina) / Jimena Cornaglia Fernández and Natacha Buc; title: Beyond stones: bone as raw material for tools in the central plateau of Santa Cruz, Argentinean Patagonia / Laura Miotti and Laura Marchionni; title: The meaning of "smoothing" implements from the Levantine PPNB seen from the Basta perspective / Cornelia Becker; title: Tubular bone artefacts in burial context at Ajvide, Gotland c. 2500 CAL BC.: are they musical instruments? / Kristiina Manermaa and Riitta Rainio; title: Strict rules, loose rules: raw material preferences at the Late Neolithic site of Aszód, Central Hungary / Zsuzsanna Tóth; title: More than fun and games: an experimental study of worked bone astragali from two Middle Bronze Age Hungarian sites / Jacqueline Meier; title: Economic and social context of bone tool use, formative Bolivia / Katherine Moore; title: Exotic materials used in the construction of Iron Age sword handles from South Cave, UK / Sonia O'Connor; title: 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; title: Some comments on the identification of cervid species in worked antler / Steven Ashby.