Crafting Bone: Skeletal Technologies through Time and Space

Thirty-six papers, from the 2nd meeting of the (ICAZ) worked Bone Research Group held in Budapest in 1999, written by archaeologists and archaozoologists, report on material from North and Central America, Europe and South West Asia. The collection is divided into six thematic sections (general theory, raw material exploitation, manufacturing technology, function, social context and special assemblages) and include reports on bone materials, objects and tools that date from the Neolithic to the Viking and medieval periods.