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Dear all, Having worked on fish bones from Cabeço da Amoreira, a Portuguese Shellmidden, for my PhD, what I can tell you is that only the Meagre (*Argyrosomus regius*) otoliths, although there were other species present. In fact, mullets were the most abundant. That may be consequence of their size robustness and very likely is. My colleagues and I have written a paper on seasonality that deals with taphonomy to a degree: Dias, R., Estrella-Martínez, J., Butler, P., Nederbragt, A., Hall, I. R., Barrulas, P., ... & Bicho, N. (2018). Mesolithic human occupation and seasonality: sclerochronology, δ 18 O isotope geochemistry, and diagenesis verification by Raman and LA-ICP-MS analysis of Argyrosomus regius (meagre) sagittae otoliths from layer 1 of Cabeço da Amoreira Mesolithic shell midden (Muge, Portugal). *Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences*, 1-24. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12520-017-0569-3. If you don't have access, please email me and I will gladly send a copy your way. I would send you my thesis but it is written in portuguese, so I don't think it would be very useful. All the best, Rita Daniella Bar-Yosef <[log in to unmask]> escreveu no dia segunda, 7/01/2019 à(s) 11:03: > You are right, Fiona, I do get the occasional otholith among shells. > > Daniella Bar-Yosef > ------------------------------ > *From:* Analysis of animal remains from archaeological sites < > [log in to unmask]> on behalf of fiona beglane < > [log in to unmask]> > *Sent:* Monday, January 7, 2019 12:22:17 PM > *To:* [log in to unmask] > *Subject:* Re: [ZOOARCH] Otoliths > > I wonder as well whether otoliths always get bagged with the bones. They > don't 'look' like bones and in among all the shells of a midden I wonder if > they often get discarded with the shells. Most shell midden excavations > seem to sample the shells rather than having a specialist work through all > of them - there could literally be tonnes and particularly in e.g. > development-led archaeology this is more likely. Obviously all this depends > on who is excavating and what their experience is in terms of > zooarchaeology/malacology and whether there is an on-site specialist or > whether the assemblage is packed up and sent to the specialist/s after the > dig. > Just a thought. > Fiona > > > Fiona Beglane PhD MIAI > Animal Bone Specialist > Licensed Archaeologist > Donegal, Ireland > 074 97 21937 > 087 686 3914 (M) > Alternate email address: [log in to unmask] > Institute of Technology, Sligo > http://itsligo.academia.edu/fionabeglane > > > > > > > On Sunday, January 6, 2019, 3:42:03 AM GMT, Matthew Campbell < > [log in to unmask]> wrote: > > > Dear colleagues > > Ngā Mihi o te Tau Hou / Happy New Year > > Do any of you know anything about the taphonomy of otoliths? I have > observed that they survive very well in some sites and not at all in > others, but I can’t see any reason for this. > > If anyone can shine any light on this topic or point me to any references > I would be grateful (searches on Google Scholar and ResearchGate didn’t > help) > > Mat > > > > **************************** > > Matthew Campbell > CFG Heritage Ltd > 132 Symonds St > Auckland 1010 > > > > phone: (+64) 09 309 2426 > mobile: (+64) 021 437 555 > email: [log in to unmask] > web: www.cfgheritage.com > > > > ------------------------------ > > To unsubscribe from the ZOOARCH list, click the following link: > https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=ZOOARCH&A=1 > > ------------------------------ > > To unsubscribe from the ZOOARCH list, click the following link: > https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=ZOOARCH&A=1 > > ------------------------------ > > To unsubscribe from the ZOOARCH list, click the following link: > https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=ZOOARCH&A=1 > -- Rita Dias, PhD. ICArEHB - Interdisciplinary Center for Archaeology and Evolution of Human Behaviour Faculdade das Ciências Humanas e Sociais Universidade do Algarve Campus Gambelas 8005-139, Faro Portugal (+351) 289 800 988 ######################################################################## To unsubscribe from the ZOOARCH list, click the following link: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=ZOOARCH&A=1