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Dear Rene, I hope I have not given you the impression that I regard tooth measurements as useless. In fact it is quite the opposite, I believe they are very informative and in fact underused in zooarchaeology. It is just that they are not good proxy of either body size or withers height. Here are refs of some of the papers in which I discuss the divergence of bone and tooth measurements. I'll send you a couple of pdfs tomorrow. Albarella U. & Davis S. 1996. Mammals and Birds from Launceston Castle, Cornwall: Decline in Status and the Rise of Agriculture. York, Circaea, 12 (1), pp.1-156 Albarella U. 2002. Size matters: how and why biometry is still important in zooarchaeology. In K. Dobney & T. O’Connor (eds). Bones and the Man: Studies in honour of Don Brothwell, pp.51-62. Oxford: Oxbow Books. Albarella U., Tagliacozzo A, Dobney K. & Rowley-Conwy P. 2006. Pig hunting and husbandry in prehistoric Italy: a contribution to the domestication debate. Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society 72, 193-227 Cheers, Umberto -- Umberto Albarella Department of Archaeology University of Sheffield Northgate House West Street Sheffield S1 4ET United Kingdom Telephone: (+) 44 (0) 114 22 22 943 Fax: (+) 44 (0) 114 27 22 563 http://www.shef.ac.uk/archaeology/staff/albarella.html For Archaeologists for Global Justice (AGJ) see: http://www.shef.ac.uk/archaeology/global-justice.html "There is no way to peace. Peace IS the way".