Gabriele, Do you have access to a veterinary college. When I was at Penn, I was able to get some excellent, well-documented horse, cattle, and goats from Penn's large mammal facility. Pam Crabtree ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gabriele Soranna" <[log in to unmask]> To: <[log in to unmask]> Sent: Sunday, January 13, 2008 2:34 PM Subject: [ZOOARCH] reference collection ex novo > Dear All, > I am striving to equip and arrange a zooarchaeology laboratory ex novo. > But I am > encountering a great difficulty in retrieving known aged/sexed modern > skeletal > remains and bones (common mammals, cervids, birds, small mammals) to > create a > good reference collection focusing on the Mediterranean Area and on the > Historic Age (roughly spanning 1000 BC to 1500 AD). Might anybody give me > some > suggestions on where bones are likely to be collected/retrieved cheaply? > Thank you all in advance > > Gabriele Soranna > MA Field Archaeology > University College of London