Bones as Tools: Current Methods and Interpretations in Worked Bone Studies (bar s)

The papers in this volume were originally collected for a symposium entitled "Recent Developments in Bone Tool Studies", organized for the 69th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology held in Montreal (Canada) on April 2nd, 2004. The objective of the symposium was to illustrate how recent developments in approaches, methods and techniques in worked bone studies can contribute to our understanding of basic problems encountered in archaeological research, with case studies from Europe and North America essentially, but also from Latin America and Oceania. Contents: 1) Bone Tools and Bone Technology: A Brief History (Genevieve M. LeMoine); 2) The Importance of the Palaeontological and Taphonomical Analyses for the Study of Bone Industries (Carole Vercoutere, Marylene Patou-Mathis and Giacomo Giacobini ); 3) Technology on Bone and Antler Industries: A Relevant Methodology for Characterizing Early Post-Glacial Societies (9th - 8th Millennium BC) (Eva David ); 4) Prehistoric Bone Tools and the Archaeozoological Perspective: Research in Central Europe (Alice M. Choyke and Jorg Schibler); 5) Methods, Means, and Results when Studying European Bone Industries (Alexandra Legrand and Isabelle Sidera); 6) The Use of Bone and Antler Tools: Two Examples from the Late Mesolithic in the Dutch Coastal Zone (Annelou van Gijn); 7) Stability and Change in Bone Tool Use Along the Middle Missouri, North Dakota (Janet Griffitts); 8) Bone Awls of the St.Lawrence Iroquoians: A Microwear Analysis (Christian Gates St-Pierre); 9) A Diachronic Study of Pre- and Post-Contact Antler, Bone and Shell Artifacts from New York State (Renee B. Walker); 10) Bone Disc Manufacturing Debris from Newfoundland to Antigua During the Historic Period (Walter E. Klippel and Bonnie E. Price); 11) Bone Tool Types and Microwear Patterns: Some Examples from the Pampa Region, South America (Natacha Buc and Daniel Loponte); 12) A Priliminary Typology of Perpendicularly Hafted Bone Tipped Tattooing Instruments: Toward a Technological History of Oceanic Tattooing 9Benoit Robitaille); 12) Bone Artifacts and their Importance to Archaeology (Sandra L. Olsen).Gates St. Pierre, Christian is the author of 'Bones as Tools: Current Methods and Interpretations in Worked Bone Studies (bar s)', published 2007 under ISBN 9781407300344 and ISBN 1407300342.