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

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

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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.

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From these bare bones : raw materials and the study of worked osseous objects. ISBN 9781782972112. Published by Oxbow Books in 2013. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.

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