Ancient and Modern Bone Artefacts from America to Russia [Paperback]

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 (Ga??lle 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 Karancss??g Als??-r??t (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7) Bone-Working in Roman Dacia (L??r??nt Vass); 8) Socio-economic and Cultural Implications in Medieval Society: the Unpublished Collections of the Region of Douai (France) (Doroth??e Chaoui-Derieux); 9) Iroquoian Bone Artifacts: Characteristics and Problems (Christian Gates St-Pierre);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 Pek??rna (Moravia, Czech Republic) and La Vache (Ari??ge, France) ( Martina L??znickov??-Galetov??); 13) Palaeolithic Portable Art and its Relation to Ungulate Bones (Metapods) (??va 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 ls$