Website © S. Hamilton-Dyer 2020
Selection of useful resources for fish bone identification
Archaeological Fish Resource
This was a collaborative project based in Britain that included practical workshops to aid archaeozoologists identifying fishbones, passing on skills and knowledge to the new generation. An online resource of fish bone images was created as part of this. The images are in the process of being updated, expanded and transferred to another platform, meanwhile the videos of the workshops are also still available and cover the general hows and whys of analysis.
Selection of Web links
Osteobase - Hosted by the MNHN - French museum of natural history, this is a similar resource to the AFR project but with a different slant - it has more species, excellent photos, English and French versions. Mainly curated by Phillipe Bearez with additional species from Arabian Gulf and Oman provided by Kevin Lidour and Anais Marrast. It seems that many people do not know of this useful website so take a look. Bone Base Baltic Sea - A useful resource for fish of the area - various information and a download of a cd photo resource (create the cd by burning an iso file or mount as virtual). Sydney fish library - images of modern and archaeological fishbones from the Sydney area of Australia, compiled by Sarah Colley. Includes species of wide distribution and fills in missing ones with similar taxa from other areas - therefore useful even if you are not working in this exact area of the world. NABONE gadid manual - digital images of elements of five North Atlantic gadids. Sadly this was never expanded further. Links to other NABONE items. Portland State University fish bone images - useful for this area of the USA but also handy for general reference to species in same genus/family. Links to other zooarch including collections database. Hawaiian fish bone key from the Bishop Museum - key using Lucid and digital images, also nice anatomical labels listed under ‘types of remains’. OSTEO - bones of fresh water cyprinids (mostly limited to those in Madrid NH collection?). FishBase.org - for scientific information on fish species. Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. 2011. FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication.
Website © S. Hamilton-Dyer 2020
Selection of useful resources
for fish bone identification
Archaeological Fish Resource
This was a collaborative project based in Britain that included practical workshops to aid archaeozoologists identifying fishbones, passing on skills and knowledge to the new generation. An online resource of fish bone images was created as part of this. The images are in the process of being updated, expanded and transferred to another platform, meanwhile the videos of the workshops are also still available and cover the general hows and whys of analysis.
Selection of Web links
Osteobase - Hosted by the MNHN - French museum of natural history, this is a similar resource to the AFR project but with a different slant - it has more species, excellent photos, English and French versions. Mainly curated by Phillipe Bearez with additional species from Arabian Gulf and Oman provided by Kevin Lidour and Anais Marrast. It seems that many people do not know of this useful website so take a look. Bone Base Baltic Sea - A useful resource for fish of the area - various information and a download of a cd photo resource (create the cd by burning an iso file or mount as virtual). Sydney fish library - images of modern and archaeological fishbones from the Sydney area of Australia, compiled by Sarah Colley. Includes species of wide distribution and fills in missing ones with similar taxa from other areas - therefore useful even if you are not working in this exact area of the world. NABONE gadid manual - digital images of elements of five North Atlantic gadids. Sadly this was never expanded further. Links to other NABONE items. Portland State University fish bone images - useful for this area of the USA but also handy for general reference to species in same genus/family. Links to other zooarch including collections database. Hawaiian fish bone key from the Bishop Museum - key using Lucid and digital images, also nice anatomical labels listed under ‘types of remains’. OSTEO - bones of fresh water cyprinids (mostly limited to those in Madrid NH collection?). FishBase.org - for scientific information on fish species. Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. 2011. FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication.
