may be also useful to have a look at the zooarch archives www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/zooarch.html as last year we had a discussion on this very topic (search for instance for "greasy bones") -- Umberto Albarella Department of Archaeology University of Sheffield Northgate House West Street Sheffield S1 4ET United Kingdom Telephone: (+) 44 (0) 114 22 22 943 Fax: (+) 44 (0) 114 27 22 563 http://www.shef.ac.uk/archaeology/staff/albarella.html For Archaeologists for Global Justice (AGJ) see: http://www.shef.ac.uk/archaeology/global-justice.html "only when the last tree has died and the last river been poisoned and the last fish been caught we will realise we cannot eat money"