Again, it’s not remotely Near-Eastern, but Rissa Russell gives standard postcranial measurements from a female wild boar from the Hungarian Agricultural Museum in her PhD (see below). Might be worth looking at if you can’t find anything closer to home. I’ve got the measurements in spreadsheet form so could send them on if you think they’d be useful (checking with Rissa first, of course).
David
N. Russell 1993. ‘Hunting, Herding and Feasting: human use of animals in Neolithic Southeast Europe’. PhD, UC Berkeley
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Subject: [ZOOARCH] Wild Boar
standard measurements
I am just analysing a small Neolithic site in Syria and
I'm looking for some 'standard' Near Eastern wild boar measurements to compare
my pig remains to. As I only have a very small sample of measurements, I
want to use the log ratio technique (Meadow 1981) to try to the determine the
domestication status.
Does anyone know of a paper which gives any 'standard'
postcranial measurements? If so I would be very grateful for a reference or
even better a pdf file?
Many Thanks,
Anna Russell
PhD Researcher Archaeozoology
Tell Sabi Abyad Project
Faculty of Archaeology
Universiteit Leiden
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