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Recent Advances in Ageing and Sexing Animal Bones This volume deals with the technical advances made over the last twenty years in the field of aging and sexing animal bones. The analysis of ancient DNA holds great possibilities for sexing certain faunal assemblages, which is an urgent issue in the study of hunting and animal husbandry. T

Ruscillo, D

This volume deals with the technical advances made over the last twenty years in the field of aging and sexing animal bones. The analysis of ancient DNA holds great possibilities for sexing certain faunal assemblages, which is an urgent issue in the study of hunting and animal husbandry. The eighteen papers in this book examine the state of research for various techniques of age/sex determination and assess potential future development.

Review Quote

"...all of the papers contribute to the refinement and furthering of necessary approaches to ageing or/and sexing archaeofaunas."

Anne Pike-Tay
Environmental Archaeology (2008)

Table of Contents

List of Contributors; Preface; Acknowledgements; List of Illustrations; Introduction Vertebrate demography by numbers: age, sex, and zooarchaeological practice (T P O'Connor); Part I: New approaches to ageing and sexing 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 (R J Carter); The Table Test: a simple technique for sexing canid humeri (D Ruscillo); Sexing fragmentary ungulate acetabulae (H Greenfield); Part II: Assessing existing methods of ageing 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 (R Millard); Part III: Studies in ageing by dental eruption and attrition 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 Louguet); Tooth wear in wild boar (Sus scrofa) (O Magnell); Part IV: Applications of osteometrics and epiphyseal fusion Phenotype and age in protohistoric horses: a comparison between Avar and Early Hungarian crania (L Bartosiewicz); Documenting the channel catfish population exploited by the prehistoric inhabitants of the Station-3-Avant Site at Pointe-du-Buisson, southern Québec (Canada) (M-E Brodeur); Epiphyseal fusion in the postcranial skeleton as an indicator of age at death of European fallow deer (Dama dama dama) (R F Carden and T J Hayden); Size variability in Roman period horses from Hungary (K Lyublyanovics); Part V: Studies in sexual dimorphism Environment, body size, and sexual dimorphism in Late Glacial reindeer (J Weinstock); Sexual dimorphism in the postcranial skeleton of European fossil elephants (L Sedlácková).

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