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You might also contact Will Higgs (he's probably reading this). He recently did some research on new and established uses of animal footprints in archaeology. Steve >From: Jean-Denis Vigne <[log in to unmask]> >Reply-To: Zooarchaeology is the analysis of Animal remains from > archaeological sites <[log in to unmask]> >To: [log in to unmask] >Subject: Re: Japanese hoofprints >Date: Wed, 6 Mar 2002 14:30:44 +0100 > >The paper on Japanese hoofprints has been published under the following >refernce : >INOUE M. & SAKAGUCHI H., 1997.- Estimating the wither height of ancient >Japanese horse from hoof prints. Anthropizoologica, 25-26: 119-130. (Proc. >7th ICAZ Conf., Constance, 1994). > > >Jean-Denis VIGNE >Dr HDR, Directeur de l'Unité >ESA 8045, Archéozoologie et Histoire des Sociétés >CNRS - Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle >55 rue Buffon, F-75005 Paris, France >tel : 33 (0)1 40 79 33 10 >fax : 33 (0)1 40 79 33 14 >________________________________________ >visitez le site de l'ESA 8045 : >http://www.mnhn.fr/mnhn/anc/esa/esa.html > >----- Original Message ----- >From: J.Mulville <[log in to unmask]> >To: <[log in to unmask]> >Sent: Wednesday, March 06, 2002 11:19 AM >Subject: Japanese hoofprints > > > > Dear Zooarch, > > > > Does anyone else remember a paper given by two chaps at a conference >about >a > > whole series of horse hoofprints found in mud? They statistically >analysed > > them and came to conclusions about the age structure of the animals that > > made them. > > > > I distinctly remember the paper - but not the location nor of course the > > authors - does anyone else? Of course I may have just read the paper and > > mixed it up with the presentation, both of which were definately >japanese >as > > I remember being impressed with the overtly ritual interpretation of >space > > use within houses (of interest to us folk who have the 'corner of >death', > > full of animal and human burials, in their BA hebridean roundhouses). > > > > We have a series of cattle hoofprints outside our roundhouse, and I know > > there are hoofprints aplenty in the Severn esturary. I thought the > > hoofprints analysis might be of use/interest. > > > > Any other hoofprint analysis work would also be of interest. > > > > > > jacqui > > _________________________________________________________________ Chat with friends online, try MSN Messenger: http://messenger.msn.com