Guide to the curation of archaeozoological collections (Erin Henry, ed.). Proceedings of the curation workshop, International Council of Archaeozoology, Sixth International Conference, Washington, D.C., 105

On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 12:20 AM, Albína Hulda Pálsdóttir <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

Dear Zooarch members


I have been asked to advise the National Museum of Iceland regarding the storage of zooarchaeological collections. They are revising all their archaeological material storage policies and are asking if some zooarchaeological materials may be thrown away. I have read the past discussion on the issue on the list but I was wondering if there were any published papers on these matters? Also in the past discussion it was mentioned that bone does not need the same amount of climate control as many other archaeological artifacts, are there any sources that I could cite regarding this?
They are also thinking about how the material that will be kept will be boxed and such, currently they require each box to have a list of find/context numbers in the box, what methods for storage have you found to be best and easiest to understand and access later? What does not work?
Since we have not excavated that much animal bone in Iceland so far I want to recommend that all bone should be kept but I need some material to support me. Also pdf's of articles and research done on well curated zooarchaeological collections might be useful. Disaster stories might help as well.

Also does anybody have a pdf of this paper:

Guide to the curation of archaeozoological collections (Erin Henry, ed.).
Proceedings of the curation workshop, International Council of 
Archaeozoology, Sixth International Conference, Washington, D.C., 105

Kind regards,

Albína Hulda Pálsdóttir