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      Kill-off Patterns in Sheep and Goats: the Mandibles from Aşvan Kale

      Anatolian Studies
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          Abstract

          Reports on animal bones from archaeological sites often include information about the “kill-off pattern” for each species – i.e. the relative representation of different age-groups in the sample. Osteologists believe that this information can be used as evidence for whether an animal was wild or domesticated, and, if domesticated, about the way in which man managed the animal. In this paper a method is described for recording such data for sheep and goat using mandibles and mandibular teeth; the analysis and interpretation of such data is discussed using excavated samples from Aşvan Kale.

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          Anatolian Studies
          Anatol. Stud.
          JSTOR
          0066-1546
          2048-0849
          December 1973
          December 2013
          : 23
          :
          : 281-303
          Article
          10.2307/3642547
          6bdf3306-46df-4cf3-9978-f9f1cd1ad766
          © 1973
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