Burke Ariane wrote:
> I second that! A few years ago someone made line-drawing templates of animal skeletons available on BoneCommons that proved very popular. If anybody out there has a shapefile for mammalian skeletons I`m sure it will be even more so... Can anyone step up to the plate?
>
> Prof. Ariane Burke,
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> Département d'anthropologie,
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> Université de Montréal,
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> B.P. 6128, Succursale Centre-Ville,
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> Montréal, QC,
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> -----Message d'origine-----
> De : Analysis of animal remains from archaeological sites [mailto:[log in to unmask]] De la part de Jessica Grimm
> Envoyé : 25 mars 2009 11:49
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> Objet : Re: [ZOOARCH] Anatomical distribution
>
> Hi David,
>
> I would be very interested in these templates, as most units and
> university based people probably are. These institutions usually have
> GIS licences.
>
> Jessica Grimm
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Analysis of animal remains from archaeological sites
> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of David Orton
> Sent: 25 March 2009 15:42
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: [ZOOARCH] Anatomical distribution
>
> I'm in the process of converting some skeletal templates into ArcGIS
> format
> so that you can link an Excel or dbase table full of faunal data
> straight
> in. The skeleton then becomes analogous to a map or site plan and you
> can
> use the display options within ArcGIS to display whichever field you
> want
> (be it NISP, MNE, burning rate, whatever) in a variety of ways (shading,
>
> different colours, labels, even superimposed graphs if you like). This
> is
> basically the same as doing it in Illustrator as Jim suggests, except
> that
> you can throw up and compare different categories of data or produce
> multiple figures for different sites, contexts etc. much, much more
> quickly.
> In my PhD research I noticed some taphonomic patterns this way that I'd
> never have had time to try out had I been colouring elements manually
>
> I'm thinking of bundling the files up and posting them on the internet
> somewhere - possibly Internet Archaeology - with instructions and
> examples.
> This is probably the closest you'll get right now to customised software
>
> (although I hope to be corrected on this), but obviously it's not ideal
> because unless you're affiliated to an institution which has a license
> for
> the GIS software - or are sufficiently loaded to get your own - you
> won't be
> able to use the template files.
>
> I'd be grateful if zooarchers could tell me whether:
> (a) they think this is worth doing, and
> (b) anyone has already done it.
>
> Thanks,
> David
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "James Morris" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Wednesday, March 25, 2009 11:03 AM
> Subject: Re: [ZOOARCH] Anatomical distribution
>
>
>
>> Hi Vaidotas
>>
>> I don't know of any software that would do it all for you.
>> The best way I have found is to do your calculations in excel and then
>>
> use
>
>> illustrator or another other graphic software to manually colour in a
>> skeleton.
>>
>> Excellent digitized skeletons are available from the below site in
>>
> both
>
>> Adobe Illustrator and PNG format.
>>
>> http://www.archeozoo.org/en-rubrique108.html
>>
>> Hope that helps
>>
>> Jim
>> http://www.animalbones.org/Profilingcommercialzooarchaeology.html
>>
>> Vaidotas wrote:
>>
>>> Hello everyone,
>>>
>>> Are there any particular software available for calculating
>>>
> anatomical
>
>>> distribution of bones and representing the results on a graphical
>>> skeleton template? I'd like to represent them using the color
>>>
> graduation
>
>>> depending on the percentage allocated to each bone.
>>>
>>> Vaidotas Suncovas
>>>
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>
Wow, that sounds fantastic. Worth doing without doubt. Even if someone
does not have an ArcGIS license, probably it would be possible to use
these GIS files with the open source GIS like GRASS or QGIS. I'm
consulting with the GIS technician currently and we are going to try
creating shapefiles of some animals in ArcGIS. Still there are some
problems with the coordinate system to use and as far as I understand it
will need different coordinates for each skeleton.
Vaidotas Suncovas
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