Hi to everybody! Answering David's question. It may be useful to take a look at:
Abe, Y., Marean, C.W., Nilssen, P., Assefa, Z., y E. Stone.
2002. “The analysis of cutmarks from archaeological sites: a review
and a new GIS image-analysis approach”. American Antiquity 66(3):
333-348.
Marean, C.W., Abe, Y., Nilssen, P., y E. Stone.
2001. “Estimating the Minimum Number of Skeletal Elements (MNE) in
Zooarchaeology: a Review and a New Image-analysis GIS Approach.”
American Antiquity 66(2): 333-348.
For those familiar to spanish language:
Izeta, A.D., 2007. Zooarqueología del sur de los valles Calchaquíes
(Provincia de Tucumán y Catamarca, República Argentina). Estudio de
conjuntos faunísticos del primer milenio A.D. BAR International Series
S1612, John & Erica Hedges Co. Ltd.
Curtis Marean and Yoshiko Abe already made those templates from some
african artiodactyls and canids in ArcView shape files (*.shp). I did
southamerican camelid templates that can be useful to old world
camelids too.
I think those templates can be obtained emailing Curtis Marean.
Cheers,
Andres
2009/3/25 David Orton <[log in to unmask]>:
> I'm in the process of converting some skeletal templates into ArcGIS format
> so that you can link an Excel or dbase table full of faunal data straight
> in. The skeleton then becomes analogous to a map or site plan and you can
> use the display options within ArcGIS to display whichever field you want
> (be it NISP, MNE, burning rate, whatever) in a variety of ways (shading,
> different colours, labels, even superimposed graphs if you like). This is
> basically the same as doing it in Illustrator as Jim suggests, except that
> you can throw up and compare different categories of data or produce
> multiple figures for different sites, contexts etc. much, much more quickly.
> In my PhD research I noticed some taphonomic patterns this way that I'd
> never have had time to try out had I been colouring elements manually
>
> I'm thinking of bundling the files up and posting them on the internet
> somewhere - possibly Internet Archaeology - with instructions and examples.
> This is probably the closest you'll get right now to customised software
> (although I hope to be corrected on this), but obviously it's not ideal
> because unless you're affiliated to an institution which has a license for
> the GIS software - or are sufficiently loaded to get your own - you won't be
> able to use the template files.
>
> I'd be grateful if zooarchers could tell me whether:
> (a) they think this is worth doing, and
> (b) anyone has already done it.
>
> Thanks,
> David
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "James Morris" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Wednesday, March 25, 2009 11:03 AM
> Subject: Re: [ZOOARCH] Anatomical distribution
>
>
>> Hi Vaidotas
>>
>> I don't know of any software that would do it all for you.
>> The best way I have found is to do your calculations in excel and then use
>> illustrator or another other graphic software to manually colour in a
>> skeleton.
>>
>> Excellent digitized skeletons are available from the below site in both
>> Adobe Illustrator and PNG format.
>>
>> http://www.archeozoo.org/en-rubrique108.html
>>
>> Hope that helps
>>
>> Jim
>> http://www.animalbones.org/Profilingcommercialzooarchaeology.html
>>
>> Vaidotas wrote:
>>>
>>> Hello everyone,
>>>
>>> Are there any particular software available for calculating anatomical
>>> distribution of bones and representing the results on a graphical skeleton
>>> template? I'd like to represent them using the color graduation depending on
>>> the percentage allocated to each bone.
>>>
>>> Vaidotas Suncovas
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