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Computerised Bone Templates as the Basis of a Practical Procedure
to Record and Analyse Graphical Zooarchaeological Data.
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Supplementary Files for Evaluation.
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To demonstrate the procedure described here a short PowerPoint presentation
is available for download. For those interested in
evaluating the approach further, material is available to run some practical
exercises on your own computer. This material is designed to demonstrate
the template and layer principle, how an individual fragment and associated
butchery marks may be recorded, the aggregation of individual files to analyse
the fragmentation or distribution of butchery marks and the calculation of
an MNI from a fragmentation analysis.
However, as the content of this material is principally compressed image
files they are too large to make it practical to download over the internet.
However if you would like to continue evaluation of this approach please
contact the author with your postal address and a CD containing the evaluation
material will be posted to you.
Further evaluation material includes:
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Guidance Notes and Instructions (Introduction, Examination and Simple Routines).
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Guidance Notes and Instructions (More Advanced - Introduction to Recording
the Graphic Data).
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Pre-prepared template with demonstration layers to introduce the concept.
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Previously recorded data - fragments and butchery marks.
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Pre-prepared template incorporating data layers to apply the procedure to
zooarchaeological material.
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Example image templates for examination and recording practice.
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You may wish to download the guidance notes and instruction first which are
WORD documents to read them before deciding if you want to continue with
the practical part of the evaluation.
Requirements to Undertake the Template Evaluation.
In order to run the evaluation material you must have access to a modern
personal computer with as much RAM as possible and a high performance processor
as performance is related to the amount of memory that the computer has on
board and its processing speed. In particular, when loading a file, you may
encounter pauses in the program as the computer sorts out the memory and
changes files between the different types and its hard disc so that layers
can be worked on screen.
Particular Software Requirements.
The evaluation material has been designed to run on the latest version of
Paint Shop Pro (X - version 10). If you do not have access to this software,
a free download of a 30 day evaluation copy is available from
www.corel.co.uk.
Paint Shop Pro X will only run in conjunction with Windows 2000, XP or later
operating systems.
If you have any problems downloading the files please contact the author.
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