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
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