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Internat J Osteoarchaeol 16 (4)
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Internat J Osteoarchaeol 16 (4)
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International Journal of Osteoarchaeology
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16 (4)
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Journal
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Editor:
G J R Maat
Shelley Saunders
Terry P O'Connor
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John Wiley & Sons Ltd
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2006
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BIAB (The British & Irish Archaeological Bibliography (BIAB))
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http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/jissue/112728911
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04 May 2007
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Where are the wolves?; Investigating the scarcity of European grey wolf (...
Aleks Pluskowski
279 - 295
The wolf is thought to have been abundant in many parts of medieval Europe, but its remains are rarely identified in archaeological contexts. One of the potential reasons for this is the problem of distinguishing between the skeletal elements of wolves and dogs, accentuated by poor preservation and fragmentation. The paper reviews the extent of this problem, exploring the morphological relationships between wolves and dogs, as well as the issue of hybridisation, and goes on to suggest how the scarcity of wolf remains may in fact reflect infrequent hunting. This is illustrated with a comparative regional case study of wolf hunting and commercial exploitation in medieval England and southern Scandinavia, synthesising archaeological and written sources. The paper concludes with an optimistic appraisal of the value of wolf remains in medieval archaeological contexts for a broader understanding of relations between humans and wolves in the medieval period.
New siding techniques for the manual phalanges: a blind test
D T Case
J Heilman
338 - 346
Study to conduct a blind test of siding techniques for the fourteen phalanges of the human hand. A list of possible siding techniques was initially developed using four loosely articulated hand skeletons from an anatomical supply company, was later refined using ten skeletons with individually labelled hand bones from the Terry Anatomical Collection, and then was field tested on protohistoric skeletons from South Dakota. The most promising of these techniques were blind tested by the authors on a sample of fifty Terry collection individuals. For each bone, the first author selected a specimen from either the right or left side, and the second author determined the side to which it most likely belonged, based on a written description of each technique and a rough sketch. Accuracies for the proximal phalanges (PP) were generally good, ranging from 100% for PP1 to 88% for PP5. Among the intermediate phalanges (IP), accuracies clustered between 96% and 98% except for IP4, which could only be correctly sided 78% of the time. Results for the distal phalanges (DP) were generally poor. Although DP1 was correctly sided 94% of the time, accuracies for the other distal phalanges ranged from a low of 52% to a high of 78%.
Approaches to violent death: a case study from early medieval Cambridge
Philippa Patrick
347 - 354
The paper examines one of a number of weapon-injury victims from the cemetery at Church End in Cherry Hinton, Cambridge, which was in use from the late Anglo-Saxon period until after the Norman Conquest. Drawing on precedents set by forensic studies, palaeopathology and more traditional spatial cemetery analysis, assertions are made about the nature of the attack and its context.