From these bare bones : raw materials and the study of worked osseous objects

Author/Creator:

International Council for Archaeozoology. Conference Paris, France), 2010 : (11th : author

Publication/Creation:

Oxford ; Oakville : Oxbow Books, [2013]

Resource Type:

Book

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Full Title:

From these bare bones : raw materials and the study of worked osseous objects / edited by Alice Choyke and Sonia O'Connor

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Additional Author/Creators:

Choyke, Alice Mathea, editor
O'Connor, Sonia A., editor
International Council for Archaeozoology Conference International Council for Archaeozoology Conference, Corporate Author and Corporate Author

Subjects/Genre

Subjects:

Bone implements, Prehistoric--Congresses
Bone carving, Prehistoric--Congresses
Tools, Prehistoric--Congresses
Art, Prehistoric--Congresses
Excavations (Archaeology)--Congresses

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Table of Contents:

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

Summary:

A fundamental component of the study of worked osseous objects is the identification of the raw materials chosen to make them. In archaeological contexts many objects become degraded to the point where identification is very difficult and the way in which these materials decay during burial and upon excavation can vary greatly. Correct identification is crucial to the investigation of objects, their conservation and future curation. Above all, understanding raw material selection aids our understanding of human-animal interaction in the past both on pragmatic and symbolic levels since the choi

Language:

English

Language Note:

English

Physical Type/Description:

1 online resource (720 p.)

General Note:

"Proceedings of the Raw Materials Session at the 11th ICAZ Conference, Paris, 2010."

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Catalog ID (MMSID):

9937013848102486

ISBN:

1-78297-214-5
1-78297-212-9