Dear Zooarchers: I am currently engaged upon in-depth research on the dog
collection from Vindolanda. As part of the analytical process, I am
attempting to get photos of all the Romano-British dog skulls/mandibles
possible. I would also like to obtain photos of any dog skull of Iron Age
or Roman date from anywhere in the Roman Empire.
I have already made a considerable search of the literature (before which
I would not have made this appeal), and here are the collections from
which I already have good images (most are Roman era, some Iron Age, and
some of other ages and/or outside of Europe/North Africa):
Bartosiewicz/Gyoma
Bokonyi/Tac Gorsium
Bokonyi/Vlasac Palustris
Chaix 2000/Early Holocene from French Alps
Chaix 1999/Kerma
Churcher/Ein Terghi
Horard-Herbin/Levroux
Lawrence/North America/all kinds of stuff
Luttschwager/Heidelberg-Neuenheim
Morey/North America/all kinds of stuff
Morley & Wiant/North America
Olsen, 1985/all kinds of stuff
Khlopachev/Elseevichi/Sablin
Wijngaarden 1977/Medieval Dutch
MacKinnon and Belanger/Yasmina
By the courtesy of Ian Baxter and Jessica Grimm, I also have good photos
of the following Romano-British skull/skeleton material:
Causeway Lane
Forum dog -- Leicester
Great Chesterford
Great Holme Street
Greenhouse Farm
Linton
Norfolk Street
Oxford Street
Springhead, Kent
Thistleton
Trumpington
York Road
This is what I have....now for what more I would LIKE to have:
Lateral and ventral views of skull/jaws of the dog from Babraham Road
(published by Baxter but the paper does not present usable closeup views
of the skull)
Ventral view of the dog from Witcham, Cambridgeshire (also published by
Baxter, but only the lateral view)
Ventral view of the dog from Floodgate Street (published by Baxter, but
only the lateral view)
Dorsal, lateral, and ventral views of the skull of the dog burial from
Rangoon Street, and lateral view of one of the jaw rami
Dorsal, lateral, and ventral views of the skull of the dog burial from
Silchester and/or Windmill Hill
Dorsal, lateral, and ventral views of any skull from Manching Opidium,
and/or a PDF of the following paper: Petri, W. 1961. Neue Funde des Hundes
aus dem Keltischen Oppidium von Manching. Studien an vor-und
fruhgeschichtlichen Tierresten Bayerns X. Munich: Verlag Kiefhaber,
Keifhaber & Elbl.
Greatest length or basilar length measurement for the skull from Genoni
published in Wilkens, 2006
Greatest length or basilar length measurement for the skull from Roca
published in Wilkens, 2006
Total length measurement for the jaw from Sierra Niedda, Sardinia
published in Wilkens, 2006
....if anyone is in possession of field or lab shots of these dogs, or of
any other ALREADY PUBLISHED Roman-era or Romano-British dogs, and would be
willing to EMail them to me, I would be most grateful. You can also send
UNPUBLISHED material -- please specify if this is the case, for I have no
intention of pre-empting anybody else's work.
Thank you all, the help I have already received from Ian, Jessica, and
many others is just awesome -- guaranteeing that this study is going to be
of very high quality.
Sincerely,
Deb Bennett, Ph.D., Director
Equine Studies Institute
and
Zooarchaeologist, Vindolanda World Heritage Site
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