Hello Deb,
The GIS files were converted from Adobe Illustrator files made by a French team and freely available on the Archeozoo website - don't have the link on me (writing from phone) but try googling "Archeozoo corpus of digitized". They have many more species than I ever got round to converting.
In any case, my versions were primarily supposed to be a labour saving device for presenting results graphically, not a system for recording butchery data in the first place (although I suppose they could be used that way).
Also, take a look at Peter Popkin's butchery templates published in Internet Archaeology.
Best,
David
On 23 Jun 2012, at 01:28, [log in to unmask] wrote:
> David Orton's work is just super; how totally convenient if everybody
> would "image" their data similarly. If we lived in a more right-brained
> world, this might be the basis for quantitative statistical
> analysis....but I digress. My problem is much simpler: no image-processing
> program that I own (i.e. Photoshop, full version) will open files with
> extensions like ".dbf" or ".dp" or whatever they are. Is there some way to
> open, or else convert, Orton's files as given to something standard like
> .gif, .tif, or .jpg? Thanks -- Deb Bennett
>
>
>
>> The ICAZ 2010 poster was by David Orton -- "GIS skeletal templates for
>> some common mammalian species." David won first place in the 2010 Junior
>> Researcher Open Zooarchaeology Prize competition for his work.
>>
>> You can read about it and download the files from BoneCommons:
>> http://www.alexandriaarchive.org/bonecommons/items/show/1686
>>
>> Best,
>> Sarah
>>
>> On 6/22/2012 9:25 AM, Edouard Masson-MacLean wrote:
>>> Hello Claire,
>>>
>>> I would tend to use a GIS approach digitising the cutmarks as a
>>> shapefile. The advantage of using a GIS is that you can link it to a
>>> database. Someone from Cambridge presented a poster on the topic at
>>> ICAZ 2008 in Paris but unfortunately I don't have the reference with
>>> me at the moment but can send it to you next week. I used a similar
>>> system for my master's research and it worked rather well. If you
>>> don't have access to an ArcGIS licence GRASS GIS and QGIS are good
>>> open-source alternatives.
>>>
>>> Here are a 2 references that might be of interest. I have the pdfs if
>>> you wish a copy.
>>>
>>> Abe, Y. et al., 2002. The Analysis of Cutmarks on Archaeofauna: A
>>> Review and Critique of Quantification Procedures, and a New
>>> Image-Analysis GIS Approach. American antiquity, 67(4), pp.643–663.
>>>
>>> Fischer, A., 2007. Computerised bone templates as the basis of a
>>> practical procedure to record and analyse graphical zooarchaeological
>>> data. Arkeos, Revista Electrónica de Arqueología PUCP, 2(1).
>>>
>>> Best
>>>
>>> Edouard
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On 22 June 2012 14:16, Claire Ingrem<[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>>> Hi all,
>>>>
>>>> Does anyone know of a digital method for recording butchery marks on
>>>> cattle
>>>> and other common domestic mammals?
>>>>
>>>> Any suggestions and/or references (preferably with pdfs) would be very
>>>> much
>>>> appreciated.
>>>>
>>>> Many thanks
>>>>
>>>> Claire
>>>>
>>
>> --
>> Sarah Whitcher Kansa
>> Executive Director, AAI
>> Editor, Open Context
>> www.alexandriaarchive.org
>> www.opencontext.org
>> Tel: 1-415-425-7381
>> Fax: 1-866-505-8626
>>
>>
>>
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