Ageing and Sexing Animal Bones from Archaeological Sites (BAR British Series 109)

Edited By Bob Wilson, Caroline Grigson, And Sebastian Payne. Includes Bibliographies. Front Cover Copyright Table of Contents One: An introduction: the origins of a volume of papers and the necessity of improving the methodological context of ageing and sexing bones from archaeological sites in Britain. Two: Sex and Age Determination of Some Bones and Teeth of Domestic Cattle: A Review of the Literature Three: Sexing Neolithic Domestic Cattle Skulls and Horncores Four: A System for Ageing and Sexing the Horn Cores of Cattle from British Post-Medieval Sites (17th to Early 18th Century) with Special Reference to Unimproved British Longhorn Cattle Five: Tooth Eruption and Epipysial Fusion in Pigs and Wild Boars Six: Epipysial Fusion and Tooth Eruption of Feral Goats from Moffatdale, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland Seven: The Variability of Faunal Samples and Their Effects Upon Ageing Data Eight: The Use of Tooth Wear as a Guide to the Age of Domestic Ungulates Nine: The Use of Cement Layers for Absolute Ageing of Mammalian Teeth: A Selective Review of the Literature, with Suggestions for Further Studies and Alternative Applications Ten: Absolute Ageing of Cattle from Tooth Sections and its Relevance to Archaeology Eleven: The Use of Dentition to Age Young Cattle Twelve: Eruption and Wear in the Mandibular Dentition as a Guide to Ageing Turkish Angora Goats Thirteen: Errors in Recording Tooth Wear in Ovicaprid Mandibles at Different Speeds Fourteen: Re-examination of a Sample of Iron Age Sheep Mandibles from Ashville Trading Estate, Abingdon, Oxfordshire Fifteen: The Use of Crown Height Measurements and Eruption-Wear Sequences to Age Horse Teeth Sixteen: Medullary Bone as an Indicator of Sex in Birds Remains from Archaeological Sites Seventeen: Spur Development: Recognizing Caponized Fowl in Archaeological Material Eighteen: Ageing and Sexing Bird Bones from Some Late Medieval Deposits at Baynard's Castle, City of London