An Assessment of Aging Systems in Zooarchaeology

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dc.contributor.authorMartiskainen, Ellis
dc.date.accessioned2022-09-07T21:16:05Z
dc.date.available2022-09-07T21:16:05Z
dc.date.copyright2022en_US
dc.date.issued2022-09-07
dc.description.abstractThe purpose of my internship was to acquaint myself with the methods that are used to determine the age-at-death of zooarchaeological finds, and to assess whether the systems that have been in use for the past fifty years are adequate. I studied the skeletal anatomy of mammals for some time. Then I did intensive reading of the literature regarding the aging of pigs, goats, sheep and cattle. I found that many aging systems have been based off of small populations of animals or unreliable data. In the future, more aging studies should be done on populations of known-age animals which are allowed to live their full lifespan. I also analyzed some data on goats found at the archaeological site of Çatalhöyük. I found that it is difficult to perfectly replicate aging done via Silver’s (1969) system without seeing bones in person, and noted some biases in which bones survive in the archaeological record.en_US
dc.description.reviewstatusRevieweden_US
dc.description.scholarlevelUndergraduateen_US
dc.description.sponsorshipValerie Kuehne Undergraduate Research Awards (VKURA)en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1828/14200
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.subjectArchaeology
dc.subjectzooarchaeology
dc.subjectaging
dc.subjecttooth wear
dc.subjectfusion
dc.subjectreview
dc.subjectsystems
dc.subjectanimals
dc.subjectcattle
dc.subjectpigs
dc.subjectsheep
dc.subjectgoats
dc.subjectliterature
dc.subjectValerie Kuehne Undergraduate Research Awards (VKURA)
dc.subject.departmentDepartment of Anthropology
dc.titleAn Assessment of Aging Systems in Zooarchaeologyen_US
dc.typePosteren_US

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