The CNRS annual recruitment drive for Postdoctoral Research positions is designed to offer young researchers an opportunity to spend time either in CNRS Laboratories or those it runs with other organizations or higher educational institutions. This recruitment drive offering post doctororal contracts is aimed at the most brilliant researchers, either from France or abroad to enable them to move from the laboratory where they did their Ph.D. to acquire additional high-level research (...)

Dear colleagues, I was just informed that the following Conference of the European Association for the Advancement of Archaeology by Experiment (EXAR) entitled and concerned with "Bone and Antler" will be held from 13th to 15th of October 2006 in Mannheim, Germany. For further information go for http://exar.org. Cheers Christian — KNOCHENARBEIT Hans Christian (...)

This drawings corpus realized by M. Coutureau is for community use. These drawings are available in Adobe IllustratorTM format (version 8.0). They are particulary practical for showing anatomical distributions. A first set of domestic animal skeletons was realized in 1996 by M. Coutureau, in collaboration with V. Forest (INRAP): cat (Felis catus), horse (Equus caballus), goat (Capra hircus), dog (Canis familiaris), rabbit (Oryctolagus cuniculus), sheep (Ovis aries), pig (Sus domesticus) (...)

What about creating a useful tool together to determine enigmatic bones? This afternoon, in Compiègne’s lab, as yesterday, we found bones and fragments which make us think about something: oh, yes, I already saw that, and I already had difficulties to find what it is! That kind of bones, or pieces of bones, we find once a year or once every several years. So, we thought about the following idea: take photographs of any rare, strange and boring bones that are always very hard to (...)

This set of drawings dedicated to the birds was conducted by M. Coutureau, in collaboration with J-H. Yvinec (INRAP) and V. Laroulandie (University of Bordeaux 1-PACEA-IPGQ/UMR 5199 CNRS). It is put at the disposal of the community. In 2004 we added: cock, hen (Gallus gallus) and crow (Corvus frugilegus). In october 2005, we added pigeon (Colomba livia). Two sights different from the same grouse (Lagopus sp.), were put on line in May 2007. The snowy owl (Bubo scandiacus, formerly Nyctea (...)

Cards concerning the human skeleton, realized in 1997 by Mr. Coutureau, in collaboration with Patrice Courteau, are placed at the free disposal of the community. They represent the anthropological diagrams of conservation. The drawings are available to the format Adobe IllustratorTM (version 8.0 and former).

In answer to a request, here are animal’s silhouettes realized in Adobe Illustrator 8.0. format. These silhouettes are available in 3 colors: black, grey and white (witg black outline). Continue to send me your drawings even if they are sketching out, this is sufficient for make silhouettes. Thanks to all that send me drawings.

Translation to come...

Thank you to help us to the determination of this phalanx!

A computerised approach to the recording of graphical zooarchaeological data, particularly fragmentation and butchery, has been regularly mooted as the way forward for the handling of graphical zooarchaeological data. Popkin (2005) established a series of standardised line templates which, although held in a digital format, are essentially for printing and use as a paper-based recording system. Marean et al. (2001) and Abe et al. (2002) did pioneer a truly computer based system for the (...)