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Subject:

Re: meat weats etc.

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"Grant, Dr A.E." <[log in to unmask]>

Reply-To:

Zooarchaeology is the analysis of Animal remains from archaeological sites <[log in to unmask]>

Date:

Tue, 4 Sep 2001 12:54:49 +0100

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A very useful article is: 

Vigne, J-D 1992  The meat and offal weight method and the relative
proportion of ovicaprids in the meat diet of the north-west
Mediterranean. In R. Maggi, and RNisbet, Archeologia della pastorizia
nell'Europa Meridionale.  

Vigne gives adult carcass weights (including offal, which is of course a
major resource) for 'unimproved' breeds as follows:

Sheep 30kgs
Cattle 400kgs
Pig 130 kgs

He also includes a graph to show weight increase over age, so that you
can make appropriate corrections if, for example, the majority of the
animals of one species were killed while juvenile, whilst those of
another species were killed when mature.

Annie Grant

-----Original Message-----
From: Jacqui Mulville
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Sent: 04 September 2001 12:53
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Subject: meat weats etc.


Can anyone offer mike help....he is not a zooarch but
rather works with isotopes so any suggestions should not
assume an indepth knowledge of quantification....

Having just returned from my hols I am a little too busy to
help at present....

Thanks
jacqui

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Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2001 16:31:44 +0100
From: Michael Davis <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: RE: Help (again!!!!)
Sender: Michael Davis <[log in to unmask]>
To: 'Jacqui Mulville '
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Reply-To: Michael Davis <[log in to unmask]>
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Hi Jacqui,

Thanks for the references, can I annoy you again. In order
for me to calculate proportion of meat in the human diet, I
need to get an average animal isotopic value. I intended to
do this by just using the proportion of each animal (cow,
pig, shoat) found at each site. However, what I have to go
on is one faunal study from one site. I have the weight of
bone found and the number of fragments. My point is that if
I work on weight proportions, I will bias the data towards
cattle. If I could balance the mass of bone found
against mass of complete skeleton involved this may be more
accurate (am I making any sense at all). Also I was going
to balance it out against mass of meat potential per
animal, I thought you would know this for neolithic
animals (small cattle etc..).

So basically do you know how much a Neolithic cow, pig,
sheep and goat weigh (whole animal or whole skeleton or
both?), and also roughly how much meat/milk could be
acquired from each animal.

Please help or point me in some direction.

Cheers
Mike


-----Original Message-----
From: Jacqui Mulville
To: [log in to unmask]
Sent: 7/31/01 11:17 AM
Subject: Re: coprolites in caves <fwd>



----------------------
Jacqui Mulville,
EH Regional Science Advisor (E. Mids)
Oxford University Museum,
Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3PW
Tel: 01865-272996 Fax: 01865-272970

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