I would appreciate your help in identifying references of Bronze Age bone
workshops for cross-cultural comparison.

My dissertation project deals with a collection of fauna material recently
excavated from Daxinzhuang, a Shang provincial center (mid to late second
millennium B.C.) in eastern China. Since it was first reported in the 1930s,
the site was known for extensive remains of bone workshop where bones and
antlers were fashioned into projectile points, hair pins, and oracle bones at
large quantities operating side by side with a fully developed bronze
technology. As the site represents an episode of Shang imperialism in the
coastal region, there might be evidence that the political authority at the
site was involved in the control or organization of the bone industry. Similar
state operated workshops were known in Shang capitals, where both human and
animal bones used as raw materials for bone craft production in certain areas
of concentration.

I would like to locate references on excavation of bone workships of similar
social structure in other parts of the world, where the early state might have
been involved in the control of bone production as a craft industry of
reasonable scale and specialization. Thank you in advance for your
suggestions.

Li, Min
Museum of Anthropology
University of Michigan