Well, I have domestic cattle ready to go (after a little tidying-up), but 
for other species I'd been trying stuff out on the cattle skeleton then 
using Illustrator to produce final figures on the appropriate template. It 
sounds from Andres' post like various other species are already available.

I'm snowed under right now but since there seems to be interest I'll get 
cracking on finalising the cattle and digitising some other species as soon 
as I can. Internet Archaeology have expressed preliminary interest but I 
need to write a formal proposal, not to mention investigating the copyright 
situation with the .ai files they're based on (thoughts/suggestions on this 
would be very welcome - the INRAP people never replied to an initial query 
about this that I sent via their website just over a year ago). I'd like to 
get at least pig, sheep and/or goat, and a species of deer (probably Cervus 
elaphus) ready for an initial batch, and the beauty of Int Arch is that I 
think follow-up posts should be possible with more shapefiles that anyone 
gets round to making.

In the meantime, anyone who would like the cattle template can send me their 
email and I'll post it out once I've tidied it up a bit - probably in a few 
weeks.

David

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From: "Burke Ariane" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Wednesday, March 25, 2009 2:24 PM
Subject: Re: [ZOOARCH] Anatomical distribution


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,

Département d'anthropologie,

Université de Montréal,

B.P. 6128, Succursale Centre-Ville,

Montréal, QC,

Canada, H3C 3T7

Tél. +1 514-343-6574

Fax. +1 514-343-2494




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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

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From: Analysis of animal remains from archaeological sites
[mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of David Orton
Sent: 25 March 2009 15:42
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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


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From: "James Morris" <[log in to unmask]>
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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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