Description
The University of Victoria’s Zooarchaeology Lab (UVicZL) is a comparative osteology collection designed to support the accurate identification of skeletal animal remains from archaeological sites in on the Northwest Coast of North America. The collection is comprised of 2,922 animals compiled over the last 40 years. A substantial percentage of animal bones archaeological sites on the Northwest Coast have been identified here. The comparative collection continues to be used by students, researchers, contractors, and community members engaged in osteological identification.
This dataset contains the originally documented specimen attribute data for mammals, fish, birds, and invertebrates in the collection. A substantial curation process was undertaken to transform a hand-written primary card catalogue into this open science setting. Our aim is to make these data more accessible and connected to other intiatives that consider ecological and Indigenous knowledge, as well as other zooarchaeology collections and natural history museums. We see value in considering the FAIR principals of open science to help increase awareness and use of the collection but also to consider the potential role of these data for Indigenous community based research and collaboration.
Data Records
The data in this occurrence resource has been published as a Darwin Core Archive (DwC-A), which is a standardized format for sharing biodiversity data as a set of one or more data tables. The core data table contains 2,922 records.
This IPT archives the data and thus serves as the data repository. The data and resource metadata are available for download in the downloads section. The versions table lists other versions of the resource that have been made publicly available and allows tracking changes made to the resource over time.
Versions
The table below shows only published versions of the resource that are publicly accessible.
How to cite
Researchers should cite this work as follows:
McKenzie Kathryn; McKechnie, Iain (2024). University of Victoria - Zooarchaeology Lab Collection. Version 1.12. University of Victoria. Occurrence dataset. https://doi.org/10.5886/jej09d
Rights
Researchers should respect the following rights statement:
The publisher and rights holder of this work is University of Victoria. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY 4.0) License.
GBIF Registration
This resource has been registered with GBIF, and assigned the following GBIF UUID: 5b11525e-c116-48a0-956f-4147ecd97237. University of Victoria publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by Canada Biodiversity Information Facility.
Keywords
Occurrence; Specimen; Occurrence
External data
The resource data is also available in other formats
| GBIF Data Portal | https://www.gbif.org/dataset/5b11525e-c116-48a0-956f-4147ecd97237 UTF-8 HTML |
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| GBIF Registry | https://registry.gbif.org/dataset/5b11525e-c116-48a0-956f-4147ecd97237 UTF-8 HTML |
Contacts
- Metadata Provider ●
- Originator
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7569-0136
- Originator ●
- Point Of Contact
- Custodian Steward
Geographic Coverage
Northwest Coast of North America
| Bounding Coordinates | South West [12.73, -176.574], North East [70.336, 178.983] |
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Taxonomic Coverage
N/A
| Kingdom | Animalia |
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| Phylum | Chordata |
| Class | Actinopterygii, Mammalia |
| Order | Scorpaeniforms, Stomiiformes, Osmeriformes, Carnivora, Pleuronectiformes, Scorpaeniformes, Perciformes |
| Family | Ammodytidae, Otariidae, Hexagrammidae, Cottidae, Osmeridae, Mustelidae, Stomiidae, Pleuronectidae, Stichaeidae |
Temporal Coverage
| Start Date / End Date | 1974-01-09 / 2016-12-03 |
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Project Data
A thesis to be submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for a degree of MASTER OF ARTS in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Victoria by Kathryn E. McKenzie, 2024
| Title | Converging Open Science and Respecting Indigenous Knowledge to Enrich Capacity of Zooarchaeological Comparative Collections: An Example from the University of Victoria |
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| Funding | Mitacs Accelerate Internship, Hakai Institute, NSERC Discovery Grant, UVic Department of Anthropology, UVic Graduate Student Society |
Additional Metadata
The overwhelming bulk of the work for creating this dataset is UVIC graduate student Kathryn McKenzie in a forthcoming masters thesis.
| Purpose | The University of Victoria’s Zooarchaeology Lab (UVicZL) is a comparative osteology collection designed to support the accurate identification of skeletal animal remains from archaeological sites in on the Northwest Coast of North America. The collection is comprised of 2,922 animals compiled over the last 40 years. |
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| Maintenance Description | This dataset contains the originally documented specimen attribute data for mammals, fish, birds, and invertebrates in the collection. A substantial digitation and curation process was undertaken to transform a hand-written primary card catalogue into this open science setting. |
| Alternative Identifiers | 10.5886/jej09d |
| 5b11525e-c116-48a0-956f-4147ecd97237 | |
| https://data.canadensys.net/ipt/resource?r=faunal_collection |