WAMAP: Wessex Archaeology Metric Archive Project
Jessica Grimm, 2008. https://doi.org/10.5284/1000043. How to cite using this DOI
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- DOI:https://doi.org/10.5284/1000043
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Introduction
With an increasing demand from curators and journals for integrated site reports, detailed metric animal bone data is no longer always required for publication. The long tables of metric data, in particular, tend not to be included in published reports, and obtaining archive reports can be problematic. Analysing metric data is however, often a relatively cheap procedure that can have a wide application in terms of separating wild ancestors from domestic species, separating males from females, detecting animal movements and breed improvements, etc.
Therefore, in the summer of 2007, Jessica Grimm of Wessex Archaeology approached the Animal Bone Metrical Archive Project (ABMAP) to discuss the possibility of depositing Wessex Archaeology metric animal bone data onto the ABMAP database. This led to the formation of the Wessex Archaeology Metric Archive Project (WAMAP), with data from WAMAP datasets, structured to be compatible, added to the ABMAP database. The data transferred contains a selection of all measurements commonly taken during Wessex Archaeology zooarchaeological analysis; complete WAMAP datasets can be downloaded from the following pages, as well as a list of measurement definitions.
The datasets are derived from Wessex Archaeology developer-funder projects (primarily in the United Kingdom), and as such, will provide information from a wide range of archaeological sites in terms of location, period and type. It is our intention to update the WAMAP database yearly with new datasets generated during the previous year, and copies of most archive reports can be obtained by e-mail from Jessica Grimm.
