'Science is Measurement'; ABMAP, a Database of Domestic Animal Bone Measurements

Dale Serjeantson

Environmental Archaeology, 2005, vol. 10, issue 1, 97-103

Abstract: A database of animal bone measurements, the Animal Bone Metrical Archive Project (ABMAP), is now available on the Web at http://ads.ahds.ac.uk/catalogue/specColl/abmap. The measurements can be downloaded and imported into a spreadsheet. They are of bones of domestic animals from the Neolithic to the 19th century AD from assemblages in England, most from southern England. An example is given of the retrieval of measurements of cattle metacarpals and their application in a scatter diagram. The database is a resource for zooarchaeologists and others concerned with research into prehistoric and early historic domestic livestock and animal husbandry.

Date: 2005
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DOI: 10.1179/env.2005.10.1.97

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