Animal bone osteology 3101-DK0029
During the classes the students make a guided attempt at identification of mammal bones which display different degrees of fragmentation and changes caused by taphonomic factors. They learn the rules of description of bone material applying the terminology used by archaeozoologists in Polish, English and Latin. The students are trained in osteometry and standardized recording of animal bone and teeth measurements. They are taught proper description and cataloguing of animal remains data. On the basis of observation of particular bone assemblages the students make quantitative characteristics of faunal assemblages, i.e. analysis of species distribution based on the general number of remains and minimum number of individuals, anatomical distribution, estimation of morphology and death profiles.
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Assessment criteria
Written test. The students describe distinctive features of mammal bones selected by the teacher and also describe the possibility of identification of the animals’ age, sex and morphology.
Bibliography
Brothwell D.R., Digging up bones, New York 1982
Driesch A., A guide to the measurement of animal bone from archeological sites, Paebody Museum Biulletins 1, Paebody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University 1976
France D. L., Human and Nonhuman Bone Identification, A Color Atlas, CRC Tylor & Francis Group, 2009
Klucz do oznaczania ssaków Polski, red. Z. Pucek, Warszawa 1984
Klucze do oznaczania kręgowców, cz. V, Ssaki, Mammalia, (red.) K. Kowalski, Warszawa- Kraków 1964
Krysiak K., Kobryń H., Kobryńczuk F., Anatomia zwierząt, t. 1, Aparat ruchowy, Warszawa 2005
Lasota-Moskalewska A., Archeozoologia, Warszawa 2008
Lymman R. L., Vertebrate Taphonomy, Cambridge 1994
Halstead P., Collins P., Sorting the Sheep from the Goats: Morphological Distinctions
between the Mandibles and Mandibular Teeth of Adult Ovis and Capra, Journal of Archaeological Science (2002) 29, 545–553
Reitz E.J., Wing E, S., Zooarchaeology, Cambridge 2008
Zeder M. A., Lapham H. A., Assessing the reliability of criteria used to identify postcranial bones in sheep, Ovis, and goats, Capra , Journal of Archaeological Science XXX (2010) 1-19
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