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David Orton's work is just super; how totally convenient if everybody would "image" their data similarly. If we lived in a more right-brained world, this might be the basis for quantitative statistical analysis....but I digress. My problem is much simpler: no image-processing program that I own (i.e. Photoshop, full version) will open files with extensions like ".dbf" or ".dp" or whatever they are. Is there some way to open, or else convert, Orton's files as given to something standard like .gif, .tif, or .jpg? Thanks -- Deb Bennett > The ICAZ 2010 poster was by David Orton -- "GIS skeletal templates for > some common mammalian species." David won first place in the 2010 Junior > Researcher Open Zooarchaeology Prize competition for his work. > > You can read about it and download the files from BoneCommons: > http://www.alexandriaarchive.org/bonecommons/items/show/1686 > > Best, > Sarah > > On 6/22/2012 9:25 AM, Edouard Masson-MacLean wrote: >> Hello Claire, >> >> I would tend to use a GIS approach digitising the cutmarks as a >> shapefile. The advantage of using a GIS is that you can link it to a >> database. Someone from Cambridge presented a poster on the topic at >> ICAZ 2008 in Paris but unfortunately I don't have the reference with >> me at the moment but can send it to you next week. I used a similar >> system for my master's research and it worked rather well. If you >> don't have access to an ArcGIS licence GRASS GIS and QGIS are good >> open-source alternatives. >> >> Here are a 2 references that might be of interest. I have the pdfs if >> you wish a copy. >> >> Abe, Y. et al., 2002. The Analysis of Cutmarks on Archaeofauna: A >> Review and Critique of Quantification Procedures, and a New >> Image-Analysis GIS Approach. American antiquity, 67(4), pp.643–663. >> >> Fischer, A., 2007. Computerised bone templates as the basis of a >> practical procedure to record and analyse graphical zooarchaeological >> data. Arkeos, Revista Electrónica de Arqueología PUCP, 2(1). >> >> Best >> >> Edouard >> >> >> >> On 22 June 2012 14:16, Claire Ingrem<[log in to unmask]> wrote: >>> Hi all, >>> >>> Does anyone know of a digital method for recording butchery marks on >>> cattle >>> and other common domestic mammals? >>> >>> Any suggestions and/or references (preferably with pdfs) would be very >>> much >>> appreciated. >>> >>> Many thanks >>> >>> Claire >>> > > -- > Sarah Whitcher Kansa > Executive Director, AAI > Editor, Open Context > www.alexandriaarchive.org > www.opencontext.org > Tel: 1-415-425-7381 > Fax: 1-866-505-8626 > > >