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Today’s #ClassicalZooarchaeology thread is about my shit-hot database (😲!!!)

It’s designed in MS Access & uses touch-screen, speech-recognition, and an internal GIS

If you can’t do field/lab work this summer, maybe it’ll inspire you to optimize your DB for next summer
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This DB comes from years of struggling to design an efficient, largely error-free system to record tens of thousands of artifacts

Typos are a huge problem. My dad & I ran experiments. It turns out typos occur about 5% of the time (which matches research in the business world)
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My dad had been doing this for a while, and wrote some nifty archaeological barcoding software to get rid of half the typos

You can read about it here: researchgate.net/publication/40…

Below are some sample barcode tags
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Introducing #ClassicalZooarchaeology
This is my 1st thread highlighting how animal bones can answer important questions in the ancient Mediterranean
#Zooarchaeology is often thought of as a niche study, but it relates to traditional forms of evidence
#scicomm #humanities
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When we think of #Classics, ancient texts are often prioritized. Animals were an important topic for ancient authors
For example, according to the TLG the lemma hippos (horse) is the 13th most common term in Homer’s Iliad (417 mentions). Horses were important to epic warfare
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It’s no surprise that animals – especially plow oxen – are important to Hesiod’s agricultural poem Works and Days
But texts don’t tell the whole picture about #AncientAnimals
Pigs are only mentioned once in Hesiod: boars should be castrated on the 8th day of the month (WD 790)
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