[Bonetools] article for red deer age

[Christopher Arabatzis]

Hello Ian,

Thank you for sharing this info.That is very interesting.

I'd like to read about it.

Thank you
Chris

2018-08-06 9:50 GMT+03:00, trzaska at lineone.net <trzaska at lineone.net>:
> Hello Chris,
>
> I am not aware of the size of the burr being used to measure red deer age,
> but there is a long
> north european tradition of measuring the burr to determine the size of deer
> for a particular
> region, on the basis that the smallest deer come from Ireland and the
> largest from eastern Europe.
> This does seem to work quite well. It was originally published in relation
> to antler from Wolin in
> Poland, and was taken up by Reichstein for Haithabu; and I have used it for
> Irish and English early
> medieval sites. I can happily send those details along,
>
> Ian Riddler
>
> ----Original Message----
> From: christ.arabatzis at gmail.com
> Date: 02/08/2018 12:55
> To: "Mailing list for archaeologists of the research group for the study of
>  object and waste of bone,
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> Subj: [Bonetools] article for red deer age
>
> Dear all,
>
> A long time ago someone mentioned an article related to the calculation of
> the red deer age through the measurement of the burr.
>
> I can't recall the name of the author or the title of the article.
>
> Does someone of you remember anything about that ?
>
> Best Regards
> Chris
>
>
>
>
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