Osteometry, and osteological age and sex determination of the Sisimiut reindeer population (Rangifer tarandus groenlandicus)
By: Kerstin Pasda.
Series: BAR international series -- 1947; BAR international series -- 1947.
Publisher: John and Erica Hedges Ltd.; Available from Hadrian Books
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Oxford
Language: eng
Number of pages: 279
ISBN-13: 9781407304533
Subjects: Animal remains (Archaeology) -- Sex determination -- Greenland; Reindeer -- Age determination -- Greenland; Reindeer -- Greenland; Excavations (Archaeology) -- Greenland; Greenland -- Antiquities
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 115-123).
Table of contents: title: Acknowledgements; title: Introduction; title: Material; title: Research area in central west Greenland; title: Methods; title: Development of cranial dimensions; title: Development of postcranial skeletal dimensions; title: The consequence of continuous bone growth for archaeozoological investigations; title: Begin of sexual dimorphism; title: Application of the Rangifer population studies to archaeological investigations: the late palaeolithic reindeer bones of Stellmoor; title: Additional investigations to demography, season and spatial distribution of the dead reindeer in west Greenland; title: Summary of the osteometrical study of west Greenland reindeer; title: Bibliography; title: Appendix; title: Growth of bones - tables and figures; title: Tables of the status of epi- and apophyses; title: Bone measurements of young Stellmoor reindeer bones.