For a beautifully organised site run by a small group, check out Sarah Colley‘s new site: the Sydney fish project. What fish have been found in archaeological sites in Sydney? What do the bits look like, what does the whole fish look like (i.e. a reference skeleton)? What fish did Aborigines eat at what period? What did settlers eat? How did they eat them? You need access to such collections to be able to interpret finds at different sites.
I so like having all the detailed information about the picture visible with the picture, seeing multiple images of different bones on one screen, seeing at a glance how many examples there are of a particular taxon, the hierarchical views of the taxa, different views of the bones..
The ability to access a collection by image on the web gives far more people access to the collection. This one’s been done in conjunction with the University of Sydney Library, which has done a lot of interesting things making stuff accessible on the web. And because it is housed by a major library, the archive is more sustainable.
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Fishing forms an important activity in many societies throughout the world today and played a significant role in the life and subsistence of many prehistoric societies. The pictures referred to within University of Sydney’s site above demonstrate an abundant range of information with which to study and learn much more around the development of different species. The pictures are well worth looking at.