Pam, when you get your horse-bone fusion data tabulated, please share it
with us....I am sure there will be quite a few besides myself who will
need and want the latest or best tabulation. Thanks! -- Deb Bennett
> Thanks Melinda (all all the other responses)!
>
>
> All the info, comments and papers are much appreciated.
>
>
> There seems to be much new data out there for cattle, ovi-caps, pigs...and
> I'm working on a synthesis of material for data on horses now.
>
>
> very best
> Pam
>
>
> Pamela J Cross
> PhD researcher, Zoo/Bioarchaeology
> Archaeological Sciences, University of Bradford, BD7 1DP UK
> p.j.cross (at) student.bradford.ac.uk / pajx(at) aol.com
> http://www.barc.brad.ac.uk/resstud_Cross.php
> http://bradford.academia.edu/PamCross
>
>
> Life at the Edge "liminality...enable[s] evolution and growth ...
> Boundaries and edges also characterize the dynamics of landscapes ...
> environments..[both intellectual and physical]." Andrews & Roberts 2012,
> Liminal Landscapes
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Zeder, Melinda <[log in to unmask]>
> To: Pajx <[log in to unmask]>; ZOOARCH <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Mon, Jul 20, 2015 5:15 pm
> Subject: RE: [ZOOARCH] - Silver's Ageing of Domestic Animals
>
>
> Dear Pam,
>
> I would be very cautious about using Silver's data. There are now a
> number of studies that supply much more reliable data for dental and long
> bone
> fusion aging - at least for sheep and goats as well as pigs. I'd suggest
> you use
> these rather than Silver.
>
> Melinda
>
> Melinda A. Zeder
> Senior Scientist,
> Program in Human Ecology and Archaeobiology
> Curator, Old World
> Archaeology
> Department of Anthropology
> National Museum of Natural
> History
> Smithsonian Institution
> Mailing Address:
> 45 Gold Trail
> Santa Fe, NM
> 87508
> Phone: 703
> 626-9118
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> Sent: Monday,
> July 20, 2015 7:13 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: [ZOOARCH] -
> Silver's Ageing of Domestic Animals
>
> Hi
>
> Can anyone tell me firstly, whether
> there are 2 editions of:
>
> Silver IA. 1963. The Ageing of Domestic Animals. In:
> Brothwell D, and Higgs E, editors. Science in Archaeology: A Comprehensive
> Survey of Progress and Research. New York: Basic Books. p 250-268.
>
> I seem to
> have this info for a 2nd ed.: 1969/70, p 283- 302 but I can't seem to find
> anything about it, so am thinking I've just mixed something together.
>
> And
> secondly... I have heard from a number of people that many of the fusion
> ages
> quoted by Silver are based on sources that are now discredited - for
> instance:
>
> Payne, S. (1984). "The use of early 19th century data in ageing
> cattle mandibles from archaeological sites, and the relationship between
> the
> eruption of M3 and P4." Circaea 2: 77-82.
> Also a paper by B. Noddle.
>
> Is
> anyone aware of whether any of the fusion data in Silver is still
> considered
> reliable?
>
>
> A pdf of the 1963 chapter is available
> here:
> http://math.unife.it/interfacolta/lm.preistoria/insegnamenti/archeozoologia-1/materiale-didattico/a-a-2014-2015/laboratorio-eta-di-morte/Silver_1963.pdf
>
>
> cheers
> Pam
>
> Pamela
> J Cross
> PhD researcher, Zoo/Bioarchaeology
> Archaeological Sciences, University
> of Bradford, BD7 1DP UK
> p.j.cross (at) student.bradford.ac.uk / pajx (at)
> aol.com
> http://www.barc.brad.ac.uk/resstud_Cross.php
> http://bradford.academia.edu/PamCross
>
> Life
> at the Edge "liminality...enable[s] evolution and growth ... Boundaries
> and
> edges also characterize the dynamics of landscapes ... environments..[both
> intellectual and physical]." Andrews & Roberts 2012, Liminal Landscapes
>
>
>
>
>
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