Hi,
I've sent Cram (bone report from Excavations at Shakenoak Farm, Part IV) by separate email.
Generally Oxford Archaeology retains old reports - although I can't vouch for everything - and we are moving to putting all that we can into our digital library at https://library.oxfordarchaeology.com/ which is free to view and download from. As we have no funding for this it is a slow process and we are aware that indexing could/should be improved. Eventually all that are available of our out-of-print monographs should be there. We are starting with those most in demand.
Rebecca
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Subject: Re: [ZOOARCH] Where have all the journals gone? And a desperation request
Dear Zooarchers: A very wise man I once knew predicted that, far from expanding the amount of written wisdom that our civilization preserves, the shift to digitization and electronic storage and away from paper would result in a pruning, a diminution, and potentially a dangerous biasing of what we collectively know and remember. And it now appears that he was correct….One of my colleagues recently sent me this link to an article in Science – very disturbing – about the total and probably irrevocable disappearance of back issues of small journals. The process has been that big publishers buy up the rights to these little old journals, but then they do not maintain the back issues because they figure they will not make any money selling copies. This means that the ONLY way of recovering the research that these journal back issues contain is through old-fashioned private libraries. For zooarchaeology and related fields -- that means you and me! Those old “reprint boxes” that we all maintained in graduate school, those messy old paper “reprints” and “offprints” -- are now suddenly of much higher value! Here is the link to the article:
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I would go so far as to suggest that a primary goal of this list, and of ICAZ, should be to collect and maintain old literature in a kind of communal specialist library. I for one would give money to start such a library. And I even wonder whether it would be possible for us to approach the big companies like Oxford and say to them that if they do not intend to maintain the back issues, then how could we work together to see that they are maintained. Could we buy the old issues they’re not interested in curating? I am not an officer of any organization and do not know how this might be carried out, but I’d love to see some discussion about it among this list.
And on a related note, folks – does ANYBODY have a copy of these papers? I am in great need of the one by Cram, because rumor has it that she reports a dog with estimated shoulder height of over 80 cm and that’s a mighty big dog for ancient times, indeed the biggest I ever heard of:
Cram, C.L. 1973. Animal bones, in Brodribb, A., A. Hands and D. Walker, eds., Excavations at Shakenoak Farm, Part IV: Site C. Oxford, pp. 145-164.
Westley, B. 1975. The faunal remains, in Green, M.J., ed., The Bradwell Roman Villa: First Interim Report. Milton Keynes.
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Sent: Wednesday, September 16, 2020 1:42 AM
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Subject: [ZOOARCH] New bone identification aid
Hi all,
I hope you're all keeping safe and well :-)
I stumbled across this new (to me at least!) bone identification resource last week and thought it might be of interest :-)
https://russellboneatlas.wordpress.com
I'm also attaching an updated version of the online zooarchaeology (vertebrate only) resources document - I've added a few new ones over the past months, including the link above.
Best wishes, Hannah
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