Hi all,
I have three on-line resources to report 1) Royal College of Surgeon's Odontological Collection, 2) Archaeological Fish Resource, 3) Deer metrics database.
1) I expect everyone has already been sent this but I received it yesterday:
Apologies for contacting you out of the blue; I’m the curator of a research collection based within the Royal College of Surgeons in London called the Odontological Collection, which I’m hoping to encourage Zooarch/Bioarch post-grad students to consider as a resource for thesis work. As the name implies, this is a largely cranial collection consisting of just over 11,000 human and animal skulls.
http://surgicat.rcseng.ac.uk/
2) We are now starting to make progress with our Archaeological Fish Resource and, although the final searchable on-line reference collection is not yet functional, we have a precursor that is available on line - currently there are images for about 20 marine/freshwater species available. We will be migrating all of the images (plus those for the other 60 species) onto a new searchable database soon but if anyone would like to examine the images now they can be accessed via this website:
http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/archaeology/research/bioarchaeology/zooarchaeology/fish.aspx
3) We have now (I think) ironed out the teething problems with our deer metrics database and this can be accessed here http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/zooarchaeology/deer_bone/search.php You will see that, at the moment, most of the measurements are archaeological European fallow deer (Dama dama dama) but we are starting to add modern data and metrics for other species (currently we are concentrating on roe deer and reindeer).
The Fish Resource and Deer Metrics are still works in progress so we would be very grateful for any feedback, especially on the deer metrics which is now close to completion.
All the best,
Naomi (on behalf of the Fish and Deer teams)
Dr Naomi Sykes
Lecturer in Archaeology
University of Nottingham
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0115 951 4813
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