Yes hannah (and everyone else) fish and birds and reptiles etc too...no one has mentioned mrs walkers bone book - is that still available? Hi, If you are including fish bones I recommend: Yee Cannon, D. 1987. Marine Fish Osteology; A Manual for Archaeologists. Burnaby: Archaeology Press Simon Fraser University. Radu, V. 2005. Atlas for the Identification of Bony Fish Bones from Archaeological Sites. Bucharest, Romania: Asociatia Romana de Arheologie Studii de Preistorie Lepiksaar, J. 1981/1983. Osteologia. I. Pisces. Unpublished (available through ZooBook) Wheeler, A. & A. K. G. Jones 1989. Fishes Cambridge Manuals in Archaeology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. All the best, Hannah Hannah Russ AHRC PhD Researcher Division of AGES Phoenix Building SW University of Bradford BD7 1DP UK Quoting Jacqui Mulville <[log in to unmask]>: As part of our artist-in-residents research I am compilling a list of great bone illustrations - So far I have pointed him at Osteographie des cetaces by Benden and Gervais. * Driesch A.E. von den (1976). /A Guide to the Measurement of Animal Bones from Archaeological Sites./ Peabody Museum Bulletin 1./ /, * Hillson, S W, 1992. /Mammal Bones and Teeth. An Introductory Guide to Methods of Identification/. London : Institute of Archaeology & Archetype Schmid, E. Atlas of animal bones as I have them to hand - any other suggestions? Jacqui Mulville (PhD), Osteography http://osteography.wordpress.com/ Future Friends/Future Animals http://www.cardiff.ac.uk/hisar/archaeology/futureanimals/ http://futureanimals.wordpress.com/ School of History and Archaeology, Cardiff University, Humanities Building, Colum Drive, CARDIFF, CF10 3EU http://www.cardiff.ac.uk/hisar/people/archaeology/jm1/ Tel: + 44 (0) 29 2087 4247 Fax: + 44 (0) 29 2087 4929 ---------------------------------------------------------------- This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program.