New paper published – More on the identification of fish bones from southeast Arabia


A new paper has just been published in the International Journal of Osteoarchaeology:

Yeomans, L. and Beech, M.J. 2021. More on the identification of fish bones from southeast Arabia. International Journal of Osteoarchaeology 2021: 1-12. https://doi.org/10.1002/oa.2971

Abstract:
Identification of fish bones from archeological sites in southeast Arabia requires access to an extensive reference collection. This is often not possible, and repeated use of these resources when they are available ultimately damages bones. This paper provides a platform from which high‐resolution images of 60 species of marine fishes from southeast Arabia can be downloaded, aiding identification and providing illustrations that other researchers can modify to produce graphics to highlight taphonomic modification to bones or illustrate measurements taken.

Note:
This is a follow up article to the previously published paper:

Yeomans, L., and Beech, M. J. 2020. An aid to the identification of fish bones from southeast Arabia: The influence of reference collections on taxonomic diversity. International Journal of Osteoarchaeology 2020

Yeomans, L. and M.J. Beech. 2020. An aid to the identification of fish bones from southeast Arabia: The influence of reference collections on taxonomic diversity. International Journal of Osteoarchaeology 31(1): 3-17. https://doi.org/10.1002/oa.2920

[The Supporting Information can be downloaded here. This includes 60 higher resolution versions of the illustrations of fish bones featured in the paper, as well as lists providing details of the size of the reference fish and the location of the reference specimen, a summary of published data of teleost fish bones from archaeological sites in SE Arabia, as well as a list of resources useful for identifying fish bones from south-east Arabia.]