Ancient and Modern Bone Artefacts from America to Russia: Cultural, technological and functional signature

Contents: Introduction (Alexandra Legrand-Pineau and Isabelle Sidera); 1) Down to the Bone: Tracking Prehistoric Bone Technology in Southern Patagonia (Vivian Scheinsohn); 2) The Impact of Insularity on Morphologies and Techniques. The Aceramic Neolithic Bone Tools from Khirokitia (Cyprus) (Alexandra Legrand-Pineau); 3) 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); 4) Worked Bone, Tooth and Antler Objects from the Early Neolithic Site of Asparn/Zaya-Schletz (Lower Austria) (Daniela Fehlmann); 5) Bone Artefacts from the Neolithic and Medieval Site of Karancsság Alsó-rét (Northern Hungary) (Erika Gal); 6) Worked Bone Remains from Godin Tepe, Iran - Chalcolithic to Iron Age (Pam Crabtree and Douglas V. Campana); 7) Bone-Working in Roman Dacia (Lóránt Vass); 8) Socio-economic and Cultural Implications in Medieval Society: the Unpublished Collections of the Region of Douai (France) (Dorothée Chaoui-Derieux); 9) Iroquoian Bone Artifacts: Characteristics and Problems (Christian Gates St-Pierre); 10) Bone Working and Productions in the Medieval Castle of Guetrat (Salzburg) (Felix Lang); 11) Tortoiseshell in the 17th and 18th Century Dutch Republic (Marloes Rijkelijkhuizen); 12) Technological Signature Non-Utilitarian Transformation of Horse Mandibles. Magdalenian Examples from Pekárna (Moravia, Czech Republic) and La Vache (Ariège, France) ( Martina Láznicková-Galetová); 13) Palaeolithic Portable Art and its Relation to Ungulate Bones (Metapods) (Éva David); 14) Mesolithic Zoomorphic Perforated Antler Staff Heads from Central Russia and Eastern Urals: Ceremonial Weapons or Shamans Staves? (Mikhail Zhilin); 15) Experiments on Manufacturing Techniques of Mesolithic and Early Neolithic Slotted Bone Projectile Points from Eastern Urals (Svetlana Savchenko); 16) Ribs as a Raw Material in Roman Bone Artefacts from Virunum (Southern Austria) (Kordula Gostencnik); 17) Antler Manufacturing in the Eastern Carpathian Regions in the Time of Sântana de Mures-Cernjachov Culture (Late Roman Period) (Sergiu Musteata and Alexandru Popa); 18) Highland Tunes in the Lowlands: a Medieval Vulture Bone Flute from Northern Germany (Hans Christian Kuechelmann); 19) Archaeological Evidence of Pre-Industrial Worked Bone Activity in 18th Century Seville, Spain (Marta Moreno-García et al.); 20) Functional Signature. Reconstructing the Chaîne Opératoire of Skin Processing in Pavlovian Bone Artifacts from Dolní Vestonice I, Czech Republic (Michaela Raková Zelinková); 21) Sewing With or Without a Needle in the Upper Palaeolithic? (Penelope Amato); 22) Technology and Use-wear Analysis of the Non-utilitarian Bones Objects from the Russian Upper Paleolithic Site of Byki-7(I) (Natalia Akhmetgaleeva); 23) Testing Functional Hypothesis of Late Holocene Bone Bipoints from the Lower Parana Wetands (Argentina) (Natacha Buc); 24) 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); 25) The Complete and Usable Tool: Some Life Histories of Prehistoric Bone Tools in Hungary (Alice M. Choyke and Márta Daróczi-Szabó); 26) 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.); 27) Tracing the Function of the Antler Points from the Late Bronze Age Fortified Settlement of Asva in Estonia (Heidi Luik); 28) Use-wear or Butchery Marks: a Borderline Case. Bone Objects from Roman Carnuntum, Lower Austria (Guenther Karl Kunst); 29) Pierced Metapodials from al-Ândalus: Some Observations Towards their Understanding (Marta Moreno-García and Carlos M. Pimenta); 30) 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); 31) Functional Analys