The "bone zone" recording method used at Southampton since
1991 is published in full in :
Serjeantson, D. (1996). The animal bones. Runnymede Bridge Research Excavations,
Volume 2 Refuse and Disposal at Area 16 East, Runnymede.
(eds) S. Needham and T. Spence. London, British Museum
Press. 2: 194-223.
The method is summarised in the Int. J. Osteoarchaeology
paper referred to by Jacqui.
I t has also been adapted for birds (but normally only used
for chicken sze and above):
Cohen, A. and D. Serjeantson (1996). A Manual for the Identification of Bird
Bones from Archaeological Sites. 2nd edn. 109-112. London,
Archetype Press.
The various people and (ex) students who have worked at
Southampton in the past 10 years use it, but does anyone
else? I would be interested to know.
Dale
On Thu, 8 Jun 2000 10:36:04 +0100 Jacqui Mulville
<[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I have recently been having discussions with another bone
> specialist about recording/quantification. I would be
> interested in collating the full range of methodologies in
> use. Not to censure nor criticise but perhaps to produce a
> short review of state of the art (is ICAZ doing something
> along these lines). I know that for example NABO have been
> looking at setting minimums for zooarch data, but I don't
> know how far they have got (any NABO members out there).
>
> What do we think about minimums, academic freedom and
> counting/identifying tiny bits of dross?
>
> With EH there are a range of methods in use - ranging from
> the brutally brief and efficient (Davis, S.J.M. (1992)
> Rapid Method for Recording Information about Mammal Bones
> from Archaeological Sites. AML Research Report 19/92.) to
> the more expansive - well examples are the zone methods I
> guess (Dobney and Reilly, Circea (er can't remember the
> rest - Keith?) and Serjeantson, D. (1991) 'Rid Grasse of
> Bones' : a taphonomic study of the bones from midden
> deposits at the Neolithic and Bronze Age site of
> Runneymede, Surrey. International Journal of
> Osteoarchaeology 1. 73-89.)
>
> Has anybody got other methodologies they want to point out,
> or pet moans about quantification they would like to air.
>
> I know that the EH regional reviews (for non-english folk
> these are reviews by english region of all the published
> zooarch data divided into different periods) have tried to
> use much of this data, and perhaps as a result of these
> brave attempts some conclusions can be drawn about what we
> need as a minimum.
>
> Anyhow opinions please, and I know its an old chestnut but
> we may be able to usefully revisit it at least briefly.
>
> jacqui
>
> ----------------------
> Jacqui Mulville,
> EH Regional Science Advisor (E. Mids)
> Oxford University Museum,
> Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3PW
> Tel: 01865-272996 Fax: 01865-272970
>
>
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Dale Serjeantson
Department of Archaeology
University of Southampton
Southampton SO17 1BJ, UK
Tel: (44) (0)23 8059 3210
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