Ancient and modern bone artefacts from America to Russia : cultural, technological and functional signature / edited by Alexandra Legrand-Pineau ... et al. ; with the collaboration of Douglas M. Campana ... et al.

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International Council for Archaeozoology Worked Bone Research Group Meeting (6th : 2007 : Paris, France)

Legrand-Pineau, Alexandra

Campana, Douglas V

International Council for Archaeozoology Conference (10th : 2006 : Mexico City, Mexico)

Contributions from 6th International Conference Worked Bone Research Group - ICAZ, Paris, 26-31 August 2007 and 10th International Conference ICAZ - Bone Raw Material Exploitation in South America session, Mexico City, 23-28 August 2006.

Contents

Introduction / Alexandra Legrand-Pineau and Isabelle Sidéra -- Down to the bone : tracking prehistoric bone technology in southern Patagonia / Vivian Scheinsohn -- The impact of insularity on morphologies and techniques : the Aceramic Neolithic bone tools from Khirokitia (Cyprus) / Alexandra Legrand-Pineau -- The neolithization in southern Levant : impact of animal herding on the exploitation of bone materials, from reticence to adoption of domestic herds / Gaëlle Le Dosseur -- Worked bone, tooth and antler objects from the Early Neolithic site of Asparn/Zaya-Schletz (Lower Austria) / Daniela Fehlmann -- Bone artefacts from the Neolithic and medieval site of Karancsság--Alsó-rét (northern Hungary) / Erika Gál -- Worked bone remains from Godin Tepe, Iran : Chalcolithic to Iron age / Pam Crabtree and Douglas V. Campana -- Bone-working in Roman Dacia / Lóránt Vass -- Socio-economic and cultural implications in medieval society : the unpublished collections of the region of Douai (France) / Dorothée Chaoui-Derieux -- Iroquoian bone artifacts : characteristics and problems / Christian Gates St-Pierre -- Bone working and productions in the medieval castle of Guetrat (Salzburg) / Felix Lang -- Tortoiseshell in the 17th and 18th century Dutch Republic / Marloes Rijkelijkhuizen -- Non-utilitarian transformation of horse mandibles : Magdalenian examples from Pekárna (Moravia, Czech Republic) and La Vache (Ariège, France) / Martina Lázničková-Galetová -- Palaeolithic portable art and its relation to ungulate bones (metapods) / Éva David -- Mesolithic zoomorphic perforated antler staff heads from Central Russia and Eastern Urals : ceremonial weapons or shaman's staves? / Mikhail Zhilin -- Experiments on manufacturing techniques of Mesolithic and Early Neolithic slotted bone projectile points from Eastern Urals / Svetlana Savchenko -- Ribs as a raw material in Roman bone artefacts from Virunum (southern Austria) / Kordula Gostenčnik -- Antler manufacturing in the eastern Carpathian regions in the time of Sântana de Mureş-Černjachov Culture (Late Roman period) / Sergiu Musteaţă and Alexandru Popa -- Highland tunes in the Lowlands : a medieval vulture bone flute from northern Germany / Hans Christian Küchelmann -- Archaeological evidence of pre-industrial worked bone activity in 18th century Seville, Spain / Marta Moreno-García ... [et al.] -- Reconstructing the "chaîne opératoire" of skin processing in Pavlovian bone artifacts from Dolní Věstonice I, Czech Republic / Michaela Rašková Zelinková -- Sewing with or without a needle in the Upper Palaeolithic? / Penelope Amato -- Technology and use-wear analysis of the non-utilitarian bones objects from the Russian Upper Palaeolithic site of Byki-7(I) / Natalia Akhmetgaleeva -- Testing functional hypothesis of Late Holocene bone bipoints from the Lower Parana Wetands (Argentina) / Natacha Buc -- Early Neolithic and Chalcolithic crude adzes : a technological and use-wear focus on an unknown artefact type from Near-East to Western Europe / Isabelle Sidéra -- The complete and usable tool : some life histories of prehistoric bone tools in Hungary / Alice M. Choyke and Márta Daróczi-Szabó -- Hafted points and their functional interpretation on the basis of their horizontal distribution at the Neolithic site of Arbon Bleiche 3 (3384-3370 BC), Switzerland / Jörg Schibler ... [et al.] -- Tracing the function of the antler points from the Late Bronze Age fortified settlement of Asva in Estonia / Heidi Luik -- Use-wear or butchery marks : a borderline case : bone objects from Roman Carnuntum, Lower Austria / Günther Karl Kunst -- Pierced metapodials from al-Ândalus : some observations towards their understanding / Marta Moreno-García and Carlos M. Pimenta -- Late Pleistocene technology in the New World : bone artifacts from Cueva del Medio and other sites in the southern cone of South America / Hugo G. Nami -- Functional analysis of prehistoric bone instruments from the Uruguayan Atlantic Coast / Federica Moreno Rudolphi and Ignacio Clemente Conte -- The good, the bad and the ugly : prehispanic harpoon heads from Beagle Channel, Isla Grande de Tierradel Fuego (Patagonia, Argentina) / Vivian Scheinsohn -- Linking evidences : from carcass processing to bone technology : the case of the Lower Paraná Wetlands (Late Holocene, Argentina) / Alejandro Acosta, Natacha Buc and Leonardo Mucciolo -- Bone technology and archaeological interpretation in prehispanic Columbia / Elizabeth Ramos-Roca

2010

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Congresses

Physical description

ix, 324 p. : ill., maps ; 30 cm

Place

Europe

South America

Smithsonian Libraries

Topic

Bone implements, Prehistoric

Bone carving, Prehistoric

Tools, Prehistoric

Art, Prehistoric

Excavations (Archaeology)

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siris_sil_992842

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