Thanks for the suggestion ian. I will contact our colleague of Bern and
the 2 thousand skulls !
as promised you can see the skulls and a first graphic here.
http://www.archeozoo.org/fr-article362.html
Ah, i forgot to say that we have found 10 pieces of a chess game, with.
cheers
Julie Hamilton a écrit :
> In the well at Tiddington Roman settlement (Warwickshire) - 2nd century AD
> ish - there were remains (several skulls/skeltons each) of two types of dog,
> one similar to Iron Age dogs as described by Harcourt and one with clearly
> slenderer skull & other measurements, probably also smaller so more like
> what you'd call a whippet nowadays. (I did the bones from this site many
> years ago and I don't think it has been published, but I have a record of
> the dog measurements if anyone's interested.) The two types are distinct, so
> in that sense you might argue that there were "breeds", but whether there is
> any relationship with modern breeds is debatable. I think it has often been
> noted that there's much more variability in Roman period dogs in Britain
> than in the Iron Age.
> Julie Hamilton
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