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Dear Matthew and colleagues, I share your opinion that otoliths are particulary unstable. Here is a link to a paper presented in last Fish research working group in Alghero. <https://drive.google.com/open?id=12V8SvABO0QRTCRZrcd-uXsIx7lU0CPe7> It is a about a 15th-16th c burial pit where 116 whole haddocks still with their skin that have been burried. In supplementary material in the end of the document the table presents a sample with the counts of skeletal parts. MNE for otoliths is 12 whereas basioccipital =35 pterotic=32 supraoccipital=30. Otoloiths could only have dissolved as the pit had been bulk sampled and sieved to 1mm mesh. So that means that only 1/3rd of the sturdy otoliths of this medium sized Gadidae (average total length based on 90 individuals of TL=49cm ) have survived the short burial period within an urban context where preservation is good ! This paper will not be published in conference proceedings so if anyone has suggestions on a journal where it would be suitable to publish please let me know off-list. Best regards, Tarek Le 06/01/2019 à 04:41, Matthew Campbell a écrit : > > 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] <mailto:[log in to unmask]> > web: www.cfgheritage.com <http://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 > -- Tarek Oueslati Centre national de la recherche scientifique, INSHS HALMA UMR8164 CNRS University of Lille BP 60149 59653 Villeneuve d’Ascq https://pro.univ-lille.fr/tarek-oueslati/ ######################################################################## To unsubscribe from the ZOOARCH list, click the following link: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=ZOOARCH&A=1