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Dear Sue, Thank you for your suggestions and advice! I was wondering if I might have the remains of a skull, as I have an MNI of one, and although most of the teeth are mandibular molars, there's also one upper third molar. The rest are small fragments. Best wishes, Veronica ________________________________ From: Stallibrass, Sue <[log in to unmask]> Sent: 01 March 2019 13:10:34 To: [log in to unmask]; Lee, Veronica Isabel Subject: Re: Examples of cattle skull/mandible fragments from a pit Hi Veronica- do you have matching upper and lower teeth, potentially indicating the deposition of heads, or just lower teeth that might have come from disarticulated mandibles? Also worth looking at the wear on the anterior and posterior sides of mandibular molars in particular ie where they rub up against each other. Sometimes you can 'refit' adjacent teeth by their distinctive wear facets which are almost like articulations: this helps to ascertain whether you may have had complete tooth rows in their jaws rather than random isolated teeth. Teeth are often the last skeletal elements to disappear when preservation conditions are not benign, so it's helpful to look to see whether this is simply all that's left of a mixed deposit. If you have evidence of complete heads, then they are likely to have had a very different deposition history. bw Sue ________________________________ From: Analysis of animal remains from archaeological sites <[log in to unmask]> on behalf of Lee, Veronica Isabel <[log in to unmask]> Sent: 01 March 2019 12:25:31 To: [log in to unmask] Subject: [ZOOARCH] Examples of cattle skull/mandible fragments from a pit Dear all, I am an undergraduate student working on a poorly preserved Medieval/Post-Medieval assemblage from Stirlingshire, Scotland, and one of the pits contained cattle teeth at the bottom. I've been struggling to find comparative examples, so I was wondering if anyone knew of references or sites, medieval or earlier, that had a similar deposition of cattle skull/mandible fragments in Britain? Thank you in advance, Veronica Lee ________________________________ To unsubscribe from the ZOOARCH list, click the following link: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=ZOOARCH&A=1 ######################################################################## To unsubscribe from the ZOOARCH list, click the following link: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=ZOOARCH&A=1