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Dear Angela: all British PhD theses since AD 1700 (yes, really) are supposed to be held by the British Library, accessible to anybody anywhere anytime as a .pdf (yes, really) via the EThos catalogue (there is a charge if the Library has to scan it in to .pdf form). However, I can't find Pugsley's Thesis the catalogue. So: Dear Dr Orton: is the reference exactly right (name, spelling, date)? Dear Cambridge zooarchers: could one of you brilliant folk supply the Pugsley thesis to EThos in the usual manner? Greg Campbell The Naive Chemist ________________________________ From: David Orton <[log in to unmask]> To: [log in to unmask] Sent: Wednesday, 3 April 2013, 18:49 Subject: Re: [ZOOARCH] Pig bone density Dear Angela, Laura Pugsley finished a PhD on this at Cambridge in 2002. It was a pretty good study, using CT - which is generally recognised as the most accurate methodology - on a decent sample of 5 wild boar and 6 domestic pigs. Unfortunately Laura left archaeology before publishing the study and as far as I know never made an electronic copy of her thesis available (I checked with her supervisor a few months back and he doesn't have one). However, I copied out some of her density data to use in my own thesis a few years back and should be able to dig a summary table out to send to you (or anyone else interested). I'm sure Laura wouldn't mind them being used, provided that they're properly cited. The reference is: Pugsley, L. 2002. Exploitation Patterns: food utility and bone mineral density indices for wild and domestic pigs. Unpublished Ph.D. thesis, University of Cambridge. Best, David