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In 1990, the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago received support from the National Science Foundation to convene a seminar/workshop to develop standards for collecting data from human skeletal remains scheduled to be repatriated. The deliberation of the participants resulted in a set of recommendations published as
Standards For Data Collection From Human Skeletal Remains Volume, Editors: Jane E. Buikstra and Douglas H. Ubelaker and Jonathan Haas.

Realizing that collection and management of these osteological data from potentially large collections of skeletons requires computerization, The Center for Advanced Spatial Technologies, with support from the National Science Foundation Grant DBS-9121552, developed a database application called the Standardized Osteological Database or SOD from these recommended standards with the ultimate goal of stimulating a national osteological data archive and research resource.

SOD is free-standing relational database application developed using Microsoft FoxPro Relational Database Management System.

The resulting software can be downloaded via the Internet from here or is available, at minimum cost, from the following address:

Project funded by: National Science Foundation
For additional information contact about this work, please contact Dr. Jerome C. Rose at jr27204@uafsysb.uark.edu or Bob Harris at boss@cast.uark.edu.