Animal Bones and Archaeology Recovery to archive Supplement 1: Key reference resources Historic England Handbooks for Archaeology Summary This supplement accompanies Baker, P and Worley, F 2019 Animal Bones and Archaeology: Recovery to archive. Swindon: Historic England. Additional contributors and acknowledgements are provided in the main document. All hyperlinks in this supplement were valid in November 2019 Published by Historic England, The Engine House, Fire Fly Avenue, Swindon SN2 2EH www.HistoricEngland.org.uk © Historic England 2019 Product Code: HE0003 Historic England is a Government service championing England’s heritage and giving expert, constructive advice. First published 2019 Previously published as Animal Bones and Archaeology: Guidelines for Best Practice: Supplement 1, English Heritage October 2014. Design by Historic England. Front cover: A1 Ferry Fryston chariot burial (W Yorks) during excavation by Oxford Archaeology. [© Diane Charlton, formerly at the University of Bradford] ii Contents Palaeopathology 11 1 Comparative assemblage resources 1 Historic England regional reviews of animal General texts 11 bone data and other major period syntheses 1 General recording guides 11 Dental recording guides 12 Online zooarchaeological datasets 2 Joint disease recording guides 12 Taphonomy 12 2 Species biogeography and zoology 3 General introduction 12 Species biogeography 3 Tooth marks and digestion 12 Online taxonomic and zoological species guides 3 Bone weathering 13 Bone diagenesis 13 3 Anatomical nomenclature 4 Accumulation processes 13 4 Zooarchaeological methods Butchery 13 and conventions 5 5 Identification resources 15 General zooarchaeological texts (including quantification) 5 Virtual comparative collections 15 All classes 15 Published bone inventory/recording databases and spreadsheets 5 Mammals 15 Birds 15 Zone conventions 5 Fish 15 Age at death 6 Identification guides: mammal remains 15 Tooth development 6 Neonatal mammals 15 Tooth eruption and wear 6 Guides to distinguishing morphologically Fusion ages: mammals 7 similar mammal species 16 Fusion recording conventions 8 Sheep and goats 16 Bird bone maturity 8 Pigs and wild boar 16 Sex determination 8 Equids 16 Large mammals 17 Various mammal species 8 Deer 17 Cattle 9 Dogs and wolves 17 Sheep and goats 9 Cats 17 Pigs 9 Rabbits and hares 17 Equids 9 Small mammals 17 Dogs 9 Marine mammals 18 Rodents 9 Birds 10 Identification guides: bird remains 18 Herpetofauna 10 Guides to distinguishing morphologically Standard biometric conventions 10 similar bird species 18 Galliforms 18 Withers heights conversion factors 11 Swans, geese and ducks 18 Various species 11 Columbids 18 Cattle 11 Corvids 18 Sheep 11 Pigs 11 Identification guides: amphibian and reptile remains 18 Horses 11 Dogs 11 Identification guides: fish remains 19 iii 1 Comparative assemblage resources Historic England regional reviews Holmes, M 2014 Animals in Saxon and Scandinavian of animal bone data and other major England: Backbones of Economy and Society. Leiden: period syntheses Sidestone Press Albarella, U 2019 A Review of the Animal Bone Evidence Holmes, M 2017 A Review of Animal Bone Evidence from from Central England. Research Report Series 61-2019. the Saxon to Post Medieval Periods in Southern Britain Portsmouth: Historic England. (6145) [data-set]. York: Archaeology Data Service https://research.historicengland.org.uk/ [distributor]. https://doi.org/10.5284/1047191 Albarella, U and Pirnie, T 2008 A Review of the Animal Holmes, M 2018 Southern England: A Review of Animal Bone Evidence from Central England [data-set]. York: Remains from Saxon, Medieval and Post-Medieval Archaeology Data Service [distributor]. Archaeological Sites. Research Report Series 8-2017. https://doi.org/10.5284/1000317 Portsmouth: Historic England. https://research.historicengland.org.uk/ Allen, M 2017 ‘Animal products’, in Allen, M, Lodwick, L, Brindle, T, Fulford, M and Smith, A (eds) New Visions Manning, K, 2016 ‘The cultural evolution of Neolithic of the Countryside of Roman Britain. Volume 2. The Rural Europe. EUROEVOL dataset 2: Zooarchaeological data’. Economy of Roman Britain. Britannia Monograph Series Journal of Open Archaeology Data 5, e3. 30. London: Society for the Promotion of Roman http://doi.org/10.5334/joad.41 Studies, 216–20 Manning, K, Timpson, A, Colledge, S, Crema, E and Allen, M forthcoming ‘A review of the animal bone Shennan, S 2015 The Cultural Evolution of Neolithic Europe. evidence from the Roman period in southern England EUROEVOL Dataset. London: University College London. [2012 data-set]. Portsmouth: Historic England http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/1469811/ Allen, M, Blick, N, Brindle, T, Evans, T, Fulford, M, Serjeantson, D 2011 Review of Animal Remains from Holbrook, N, Lodwick, L, Richards, J D and Smith, A the Neolithic and Early Bronze Age of Southern Britain 2018 The Rural Settlement of Roman Britain: An Online (4000 BC–1500 BC). Research Department Report Series Resource [data-set]. York: Archaeology Data Service 29–2011. Portsmouth: English Heritage. [distributor]. https://doi.org/10.5284/1030449 https://research.historicengland.org.uk/ Dobney, K nd ‘Review of environmental archaeology: Serjeantson, D 2011 A Review of Animal Remains from Zooarchaeology in the north of England’. Unpublished the Neolithic and Early Bronze Age of Southern Britain report for English Heritage [data-set]. York: Archaeology Data Service [distributor]. https://doi.org/10.5284/1000396 Hambleton, E 2008 Review of Middle Bronze Age: Late Iron Age Faunal Assemblages from Southern Britain. Research Stallibrass, S 1995 ‘Review of the vertebrate remains’, in Department Report Series 71–2008. Portsmouth: English Huntley, J P and Stallibrass, S (eds) Plant and Vertebrate Heritage. https://research.historicengland.org.uk/ Remains from Archaeological Sites in Northern England: Data Reviews and Future Directions. Research Report 4. Hambleton, E 2009 A Review of Animal Bone Evidence Durham: Architectural and Archaeological Society of from Southern England [data-set]. York: Archaeology Data Durham and Northumberland, 84–198 Service [distributor]. https://doi.org/10.5284/1000102 < < contents 1 Online zooarchaeological datasets Grimm, J 2008 WAMAP: Wessex Archaeology Metric Archive Project [data-set]. York: Archaeology Data Albarella, U and Payne, S 2004 Pig Measurements from Service [distributor]. https://doi.org/10.5284/1000043 Durrington Walls (Wiltshire, England) [data-set]. York: Archaeology Data Service [distributor]. University of Southampton 2003 Animal Bone Metrical https://doi.org/10.5284/1000235 Archive Project (ABMAP) [data-set]. York: Archaeology Data Service [distributor]. Chicken Coop nd The Chicken Project [data-set]. https://doi.org/10.5284/1000350 http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/~aczzoo/chicken_search/ index.php University of York 2008 Environmental Archaeology Bibliography (EAB) [data-set]. York: Archaeology Data Dama International: Fallow Deer Project nd Service [distributor]. https://doi.org/10.5284/1000225 Zooarchaeology @ Nottingham Deer Bone Database [data-set]. Wright, E, Viner-Daniels, S, Albarella, U, Street, M, http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/zooarchaeology/deer_ Makowiecki, D, Steppan, K and Brugal J-P 2016 Biometrical bone/search.php Database of European Aurochs and Domestic Cattle [data-set]. San Francisco: Open Context [distributor]. Fairnell, E and Orton, D C 2017 National Zooarchaeological https://doi.org/10.6078/M7TX3C9V Reference Resource (NZRR) [data-set]. York: Archaeology Data Service [distributor] https://doi.org/10.5284/1043267 < < contents 2 2 Species biogeography and zoology Species biogeography Froese, R and Pauly, D (eds) 2019 FishBase, Version (02/2019). http://www.fishbase.org Lever, C, 2009 The Naturalized Animals of Britain and Ireland. London, Cape Town, Sydney, Auckland: New Frost, D R 1998–2019 Amphibian Species of the World 6.0: Holland An Online Reference. New York, NY: American Museum of Natural History. O’Connor, T and Sykes, N (eds) 2010 Extinctions and http://research.amnh.org/vz/herpetology/amphibia/index.php Invasions: A Social History of British Fauna. Oxford: Windgather Press GBIF 2019 Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Copenhagen, Denmark: GBIF. https://www.gbif.org/en/ Williamson, T 2013 An Environmental History of Wildlife in England 1650–1950. London: Bloomsbury Gill, F and Donsker, D (eds) 2019 IOC World Bird List, Version 9.2. International Ornithologists’ Union (IOC). Yalden, D W 1999 The History of British Mammals. https://doi.org/10.14344/IOC.ML.9.2 London: Poyser Natural History ITIS 2019 Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Yalden, D W and Albarella, U 2009 The History of British 2019.1 http://www.itis.gov Birds. Oxford: Oxford University Press IUCN 2019 The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Online taxonomic and zoological species Version 2019.2. Cambridge: International Union for guides Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (IUCN). https://www.iucnredlist.org Catalogue of Life 2019 Catalogue of Life. Leiden: the Netherlands. https://www.catalogueoflife.org/ Myers, P, Espinosa, R, Parr, C S, Jones, T, Hammond, G S and Dewey, T A 2019 The Animal Diversity Web. Eschmeyer, W N 1980–2019 Catalog of Fishes: Genera, http://animaldiversity.org Species, References. San Francisco, CA: California Academy of Sciences. Species 2000 2019 Species 2000. Leiden: the Netherlands. https://www.calacademy.org/scientists/projects/ https://www.sp2000.org/home eschmeyers-catalog-of-fishes Uetz, P, Freed, P and Hošek, J (eds) 2019 The Reptile Database.