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…
New Zealand on the air again
Traditional Maori bonecarving has become a carrier for cultural identity in todays New Zealand: These bonecarvings of Brian Flintoff were advertised in Air…
African handicraft
A highly decorated object of unknown purpose from Kano, Nigeria, made from an artiodactyla–metapodial. All sorts of useful and decorative things like cuttlery,…
The Guanche Recall
The Guanches, natives of the Canarian Islands, manufactured tools and a lot of other objects from bones (e. g. fieldworking instruments, fish hooks,…
Modern Bone Working in Germany
Although it is not a flourishing branch bone working has survived until today. Some bone workers still practise and at the Berufsfachschule für…
Tattoing with Bone Tools
Apart from the tattooed scythian mummies from the frozen tombs of the Altai (ca. 500 – 300 BC, see e. g. POLOSMAK 1994;…
