Hello Zooarchers,
I am an zooarchaeology student currently working on a site from the
late Mesolithic in Belgium, and have come across four bones from a
large canid: a patella, a pyramidal, a talus and a distal end of
metapodial II/V. I would like to try and determine wether these are
from a dog or a wolf, but I can't seem to find any osteometrical
references concerning those bones in either species (except for the
metapodial, for which I have found some data concerning paleolithic
dogs (no mesolithic), but none concerning the wolf). Could anybody
help me out?
On another topic, I also have the partial skull of a brown bear (Ursus
arctos) from the same belgian mesolithic site, and have heard that it
is possible to sex it using the length and height of the sagittal
crest ; has anyone any litterature on the subject? The skull lacks
teeth, so no sexing from the size of the canines, but I was also
wondering if it was possible to say from the size and/or shape of the
dental alveole.
Thank you all in advance,
Annelise Binois
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