Updates
BugsCEP Credits
Funding sources
Special thanks to...

BugsCEP currently has a very simple update strategy.

All updates will be made available when ready.

BugsCEP is essentially two files - a program and a database - which can be replaced with new versions when they are made available. Program updates are not a problem, and can just be copied over the old version. Database updates are more problematic in that they involve the user exporting any countsheets that they have added to their old copy, and then importing them into the new file. If demand and funds are sufficient a proper update system will be written.

Important updates to either the database or program will be made available separately as well as in combined packages. These will be posted on this website.

BugsCEP Credits

The current version of BugsCEP has been developed by, and is the copyright of:

Philip Buckland - programming, websites and statistics.

Paul Buckland - data entry and testing.

BugsCEP is fully documented in Phil's PhD thesis:

Buckland, P.I. (2007). "The Development and Implementation of Software for Palaeoenvironmental and Palaeoclimatological Research: The Bugs Coleopteran Ecology Package (BugsCEP)". PhD thesis, Environmental Archaeology Lab., Department of Archaeology & Sámi Studies. University of Umeå, Sweden. Archaeology and Environment 23, 236 pp + CD. Available online: http://www.diva-portal.org/umu/abstract.xsql?dbid=1105

Funding sources

The Bugs project has been funded through a combination specific projects and the involvement of the team members in other research projects. Major contributors have been:

The Environmental Archaeology Lab, Umeå University (Sweden)

Northern Crossroads project - The Bank of Sweden Tercentenary Foundation (Sweden)

The Leverhulme Trust (UK)

The University of Bournemouth (UK)

North Atlantic Biocultural Organisation (NABO) - National Science Foundation (USA)

The University of Sheffield (UK)

Keith Alexander
Robert Angus
Arne Andersson
Allan Ashworth
Tim Atkinson
Simon Brewer
Stephen Brooks
Joan Buckland
Russell Coope
Andrew Duff
Roger Engelmark
Adrian Fowles
Malcolm Greenwood
Gunnar Gustavsson
Harry Kenward
Keith Kirby
Frank Koehler
Klaus Koch
Tom Korsman
Geoffrey Lemdahl
Anders Nilsson
Tina Nilsson
Johan Olofsson
Fredrik Olsson
Eva Panagiotakopulu
Dave Perry
Philippe Ponel
Mark Robinson
Jon Sadler
Peter Skidmore
Nicki Whitehouse
Umeå archaeology undergraduates 2001-2005

Tek-Tips Forum Members:
billpower
CajunCenturion
jrbarnett
KenReay
MichaelRed
PHV
TheAceMan1
ThomasLafferty
Tranman

Previous Bugs developers:
Yuan Zhuo Don
Mike Rains
Jon Sadler
The Genesys Solutions MSc team 2000-2001

And last but not least all the data contributors whose text have been abstracted in BugsCEP, and without whom this project would not have been possible. (There are well over a thousand of them, so we'll not list them here).