Male is larger thicker and more even - just sending you a paper.
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On 13/05/2015 11:13, Lenny Salvagno wrote:
> Dear zooarchers,
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> I am investigating about the high presence of goat horncore deposits found at several English urban medieval sites.
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> As one of the hypotheses is that a trade of goat skins, with the horns still attached, was carried out, I have been reading several papers and in some it is said that "the goat male skin were more profitable and of better quality than the female skin". But no reasons are given for such a difference ("The under-rated goat", Noddle 1994; "Urban Medieval sites in Netherlands", Prummel 1982).
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> So, I want to ask if you know, because of your experience or because you have read it somewhere, why the skin of a male goat would be of a better quality than the female one.
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> It a matter of size? fat content?
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> Do you have any reference to suggest about this matter?
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> Thank you very much,
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> Lenny Salvagno
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