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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

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

Contributor:

Choyke, Alice Mathea, editor.

O'Connor, Sonia A., editor.

International Council for Archaeozoology Conference International Council for Archaeozoology Conference, Corporate Author, Corporate Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bone implements, Prehistoric--Congresses.

Bone implements, Prehistoric.

Bone carving, Prehistoric--Congresses.

Bone carving, Prehistoric.

Tools, Prehistoric--Congresses.

Tools, Prehistoric.

Art, Prehistoric--Congresses.

Art, Prehistoric.

Excavations (Archaeology)--Congresses.

Excavations (Archaeology).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (720 p.)

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; Oakville : Oxbow Books, [2013]

Language Note:

English

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

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.

Notes:

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

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781782972143

1782972145

9781782972129

1782972129