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Dear Yasha, we are currently developing an ‘Associated Bone Group’ (ABG) form for fish. We have produced one for mammals which includes diagrams of horse, cattle, pig, and carnivore skeletons, and one for birds. We’d be happy to send you copies of these off-list so that you can see the categories of information we record and examples of skeleton layout. Best wishes, Poly Polydora Baker PhD Senior Zooarchaeologist Historic England Note: I am in the office Monday to Thursday (9:30-14:30). Zooarchaeology website: http://www.historicengland.org.uk/research/approaches/research-methods/Archaeology/zooarchaeology/ Download our publication, Animal Bones and Archaeology: Guidelines for Best Practice: http://historicengland.org.uk/images-books/publications/animal-bones-and-archaeology/ We help people understand, enjoy and value the historic environment, and protect it for the future. Historic England is a public body, and we champion everyone’s heritage, across England. This e-mail (and any attachments) is confidential and may contain personal views which are not the views of Historic England unless specifically stated. If you have received it in error, please delete it from your system and notify the sender immediately. Do not use, copy or disclose the information in any way nor act in reliance on it. Any information sent to Historic England may become publicly available. -----Original Message----- From: Analysis of animal remains from archaeological sites [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Dr J.H. Barrett Sent: 14 March 2017 08:53 To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: [ZOOARCH] Articulated fish remains Dear Yasha, I haven't used a separate recording sheet in the field, but gave each articulated group a unique identification number, photographed it in situ and bagged the bones together. Then in post-ex the unique identifier was used to associate the multiple specimens for analysis. A VERY long time ago I published a small paper setting out the results: Barrett, J H, 1997 'Fish trade in Norse Orkney and Caithness: a zooarchaeological approach', Antiquity 71, 616-638 (N.B. the chronology of the resulting patterns has been updated in later work) It can be downloaded from my ResearchGate page if interested. Best wishes, James On Mar 14 2017, yasha hourani wrote: > Dear all, I would like to know if you use a standardized recording > sheet for the on-site recording of articulated fish remains. For the > excavations in Beirut we designed a recording sheet for articulated > mammal remains that combined elements from the Molas context sheet and > Pacea recording sheet for human remains. Shall we create one for the > fish remains or is there a common sheet to use? Many thanks, Yasha > >