Possibly no other subject divides the zooarchaeology world into two separate camps more
than biometry: those who like it and those who hate it. Although the choice depends very …

Although it has long been recognised that the Norman Conquest was a significant historical
watershed, archaeological evidence, in particular artefact-based studies, have produced …

Domestication of wild cattle, sheep, and pigs began a process of body size diminution. In
most of Western Europe this process continued across prehistory and was not reversed until …

Geometric morphometric methods (GMM), which were developed to characterize the shape
and size of biological organisms, have been applied within zooarchaeology over the past …

Geometric morphometrics can effectively distinguish isolated third lower molars of present-
day sheep and goat, but its applicability to archaeological specimens has yet to be …

The aim of this paper is to present the results of the biometrical analysis carried out on cattle,
sheep/goat and pig measurements from a number of Spanish archaeological sites, dated …

Many qualitative and quantitative methods for the separation of sheep and goat bones are
based upon Middle Eastern, Mediterranean and European specimens. However, these …

In this book an analysis of over 300 animal bone assemblages from English Saxon and
Scandinavian sites is presented. The data set is summarised in extensive tables for use as …

In the course of a zooarchaeological survey of Holocene sites in southern Portugal, a
substantial size increase of cattle bones was noted following the Christian reconquista of the …

This study presents the analysis of 7966 individual cattle, sheep, pig and domestic hen bone
measurements from 105 sites excavated in London dating to the period AD 1220–1900 …