From these bare bones : raw materials and the study of worked osseous objects : proceedings of the raw materials session at the 11th ICAZ Conference, Paris, 2010 / edited by Alice Choyke and Sonia O'Connor.

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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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