DamaDentition: A New Tooth Eruption and Wear Method for Assessing the Age of Fallow Deer (Dama dama): Tooth Eruption and Wear Method for Assessing Fallow Deer age

Bowen, Frazer; Carden, R.F.; Daujat, J.; Grouard, Sandrine; Miller, Holly; Perdikaris, Sophia; Sykes, Naomi

Abstract

Reliable ageing techniques for wild animals are notoriously challenging to develop because of the scarcity of sizeable collections of known‐age specimens. Without such techniques it is difficult to reconstruct hunting patterns, which is a significant problem for the examination of assemblages from pre‐farming cultures. This paper presents a new method, based on mandibular tooth eruption and wear, for assessing the age of fallow deer. The method was developed from a large collection (n = 156) of known‐age Dama dama specimens, has been blind tested by members of the zooarchaeological community and represents a user‐friendly system with the potential to generate large compatible datasets through which the dynamics of human–Dama relationships can be examined.

Citation

Bowen, F., Carden, R., Daujat, J., Grouard, S., Miller, H., Perdikaris, S., & Sykes, N. (2016). DamaDentition: A New Tooth Eruption and Wear Method for Assessing the Age of Fallow Deer (Dama dama): Tooth Eruption and Wear Method for Assessing Fallow Deer age. International Journal of Osteoarchaeology, 26(6), 1089-1098. https://doi.org/10.1002/oa.2523

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Acceptance Date: Feb 21, 2016
• Online Publication Date: Feb 25, 2016
• Publication Date: 2016-11
• Deposit Date: Jul 24, 2018
• Journal: International Journal of Osteoarchaeology
• Print ISSN: 1047-482X
• Electronic ISSN: 1099-1212
• Publisher: Wiley
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 26
• Issue: 6
• Pages: 1089-1098
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/oa.2523
• Keywords: Fallow deer; Dental ageing; Tooth eruption; Tooth wear; Known-age populations
• Public URL: https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/825233
• Publisher URL: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/oa.2523
• Contract Date: Jul 23, 2018