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
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From: "James Morris" <[log in to unmask]>
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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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