Bonetool of the Month
The “Bonetool of the Month” is a blog series on the Website of the ICAZ Worked Bone Research Group (WBRG)
Knochenarbeit – Archäozoologie, Taphonomie, Zooarchäologie, Knochenhandwerk
Archäozoologie • Taphonomie • Knochenhandwerk
Publications & ManuscriptsAll posts
Walknochen in Oberneuland
Matzke, Eberhard & Küchelmann, Hans Christian (2026): Als die Walknochen nach Oberneuland kamen. – Oberneuland Magazin 3/2026, 26-29
[When the Whale Bones came to Oberneuland]
Kirchwurt Stollhamm
Pleuger-Dreibrodt, Sarah & Küchelmann, Hans Christian (2026): Mehrzweckviehaltung im Einzugsgebiet der Weser. Die Tierknochenfunde aus der Kirchwurt Stollhamm / Beckmannsfeld, Kreis Wesermarsch, Bericht an das Niedersächsische Landesamt für Denkmalpflege, Stützpunkt Oldenburg, Bremen
[Multipurpose Livestock Keeping in the Catchment Area of the Weser. The Animal Bones from the Church Wharf of Stollhamm / Beckmannsfeld]
Brachiopods from Mogador
Lehmann, Jens / Küchelmann, Hans Christian / Juhl, Frederick / Mutterlose, Jörg (2025): Fossil brachiopods from the Roman site on Mogador Island (Essaouira, Morocco): Implications for past exchange of products. – Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology 21(1), 79-103
Dispersal of Domestic Cats
De Martino, Marco et al. (2025): The dispersal of domestic cats from North Africa to Europe around 2000 years ago. – Science 390:eadt2642, 1-12
Biomolecular Analysis of Whale Bones
van den Hurk, Youri / Küchelmann, Hans Christian / Spindler, Luke (2024): Digging into a Biocultural Archive. The Potential and Urgency of Research on Historical Whale Bones Illustrated by Examples from Bremen. – Deutsches Schifffahrtsarchiv 41, 253-264
ExhibitionsAll posts
Verschleppt. Versklavt. Vergessen?
Verschleppt. Versklavt. Vergessen? Zwangsarbeit in Bremen 1939-1945
[Displaced. Enslaved. Forgotten? Forced Labour in Bremen 1939-1945]
4. November – 12. Dezember 2024
Volkshochschule Bremerhaven
21. January – 30. June 2023
Focke-Museum Bremen
Bone WorkshopAll posts
Safe Harpoon Manufacturing
At the Department of Anthropology of the Oberlin College a project was conducted under the supervision of Amy Margaris demonstrating, step by step, the replication…
A slippery business
From the Bronze Age until the beginning of the 20th century metapodiae and radii of cattle and horses were used for ice skating…
Vikinge håndværk
Some impressions from the Vikingemarked at Ribe Vikingecentret (Denmark), rebuilt next to the site of the viking age market place. Dennis Rune Sørensen at work…
European Middle Ages
Some examples from the lively european medieval scene. Sam Voigt, bonecarver of the reenactment group Fogelvrei (left); works of Antje Chrosziel (right). Replicas…
