Jacqui-
The Natural History Museum in London has a good cetacean
collection and certainly used to have specialists who
were knowledgeable about them (including their skeletons).
THey still coordinate the list of sightings of stranded
Whales for the U.K. and have a lot of contacts with whale
interest groups. Before you try to adapt Driesch, I suggest
you contact them (zoology dept) since there are probably
standard methods already in existence for measuring
cetacean bones (what do colleagues working in the
North Atlantic/Arctic regions use?). Sorry I can't supply a
name for a contact at the NHM, but I have found them very
helpful in the past.
Long digital calipers are pricy, and 60cm seems to be a
standard maximum. How about a new bone board? Decimal
places on ancient bones at >30 - 50cm seems spurious
accuracy to me... Good luck with the grant application,
Sue
On Tue, 7 Jan 2003 09:17:35 +0100 Roel Lauwerier
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> Hi Jacqui,
>
> We have digital calipers of 60cm. They are from Mitutoyo Corporation.
> Cheers,
>
> Roel
>
> Dr. Roel C.G.M. Lauwerier
> Rijksdienst voor het Oudheidkundig Bodemonderzoek (ROB)
> (National Service for Archaeological Heritage)
> Kerkstraat 1, 3811 CV Amersfoort
>
> PO Box 1600
> NL-3800 BP Amersfoort, the Netherlands
>
> tel. +31 33 4227554
> fax. +31 33 4227799
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> >>> Jacqui Mulville <[log in to unmask]> 01/06 3:34 >>>
> Firstly happy new year to you all.
>
> Secondly - I am putting together a grant proposal on cetacean metrics
> and have
> been sorting out how to measure much larger bones.
>
> My trusty measuring box and digital calipers are only of use up to a
> certain
> size (calipers only about 15cm and measuring box about 50cm). I know
> you can get
> larger calipers but how large? Any good web sites?
>
> Does anyone have experience of measuring whales/elelphant/dinosaur
> bones and any
> good suggestions particuarly with regard to measuring very large bones
> would be
> gratefully recieved - a blue whale mandible or scapula can be pretty
> huge.
>
> Anyone know of a published cetacean measurement guide? I was going to
> adapt von
> den dreisch but any other suggestions welcome.
>
> All the best for 2003 -
> jacqui
>
>
> Jacqui Mulville
> Lecturer in Bioarchaeology
> School of History and Archaeology
> Cardiff University
> Cardiff
> CF10 3XU
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