Recent advances in ageing and sexing animal bones /
This volume in the ICAZ series deals with the technical advances made over the last twenty years in the field of ageing and sexing animal bones. The analysis of ancient DNA holds great possibilities for sexing certain faunal assemblages (though by no means all), which is an urgent issue in the study...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxbow,
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Colección: | Proceedings of the 9th Conference of the International Council of Archaeozoology, Durham, August 2002
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Sumario: | This volume in the ICAZ series deals with the technical advances made over the last twenty years in the field of ageing and sexing animal bones. The analysis of ancient DNA holds great possibilities for sexing certain faunal assemblages (though by no means all), which is an urgent issue in the study of hunting and animal husbandry. It can be assumed that our forebears used more subtle taxonomic criteria than we do today, and it is important therefore that we are able to recognise traits that will allow for more accurate classification in terms of calendar age or sex. The eighteen papers in thi. |
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Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (viii, 261 pages) : illustrations, maps |
Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references. |
ISBN: | 9781785700453 1785700456 1785700421 9781785700422 |