Recent advances in ageing and sexing animal bones
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This volume in the ICAZ series deals with the technical advances made over the last twenty years in the field of ageing and sexing animal bones. The analysis of ancient DNA holds great possibilities for sexing certain faunal assemblages (though by no means all), which is an urgent issue in the study of hunting and animal husbandry. It can be assumed that our forebears used more subtle taxonomic criteria than we do today, and it is important therefore that we are able to recognise traits that wi…
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- Full title :Recent advances in ageing and sexing animal bones / edited by Deborah Ruscillo.
Summary
This volume in the ICAZ series deals with the technical advances made over the last twenty years in the field of ageing and sexing animal bones. The analysis of ancient DNA holds great possibilities for sexing certain faunal assemblages (though by no means all), which is an urgent issue in the study of hunting and animal husbandry. It can be assumed that our forebears used more subtle taxonomic criteria than we do today, and it is important therefore that we are able to recognise traits that will allow for more accurate classification in terms of calendar age or sex. The eighteen papers in thi.
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- Publication Date:©2006.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Oxbow
- Place of Publication:Oxford
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:©2006.
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource (viii, 261 pages) : : illustrations, maps
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9781785700453, 1785700456, 1785700421, 9781785700422
- oclc:ocn891648137
- LC Classification:CC79.5.A5
- Dewey Decimal:930.10285
Table of Contents
Vertebrate demography by numbers : age, sex, and zooarchaeological practice / T.P. O'Connor -- Using osteohistology for ageing and sexing / K. Dammers -- A method to estimate the ages at death of red deer (Cervus elaphus) and roe deer (Capreolus capreolus) from developing mandibular dentition and its application to Mesolithic NW Europe / Richard J. Carter -- The table test : a simple technique for sexing canid humeri / Deborah Ruscillo -- Sexing fragmentary ungulate acetabulae / Haskel J. Greenfield -- Reconciling rates of long bone fusion and tooth eruption and wear in sheep (Ovis) and goat (Capra) / M.A. Zeder -- Accuracy of age determinations from tooth crown heights : a test using an expanded sample of known age red deer (Cervus elaphus) / T.E. Steele -- Methodological problems and biases in age determinations : a view from the Magdalenian / J.G. Enloe and E. Turner -- A Bayesian approach to ageing sheep/goats from toothwear / A.R. Millard -- Tooth eruption and wear observed in live sheep from Butser Hill, the Cotswold Farm Park and five farms in the Pentland Hills, UK / G.G. Jones -- Determining the age of death of proboscids and rhinocerotids from dental attrition / S. Lougu…
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