Dental tissue proportions and enamel thickness in Rangifer tarandus: testing the potential of intra-tooth measurements for identifying subspecies

• Main Author: Valentini, Marco
• Other Authors: De la Préhistoire à l'Actuel : Culture, Environnement et Anthropologie (PACEA), Université de Bordeaux (UB)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Université de Bordeaux, ANR-18-CE03-0007,DeerPal,Groupes humains et cervidés au Paléolithique: intégrer la variabilité de l'écologie et de l'éthologie des proies dans l'étude des interactions homme-environnement dans le passé(2018)
• Format: Report
• Language: English
• Published: HAL CCSD 2022
• Subjects: Dental tissue proportions; enamel thickness; palaeoecology; reindeer; Palaeolithic; Master 2 thesis; [SHS.ARCHEO]Humanities and Social Sciences/Archaeology and Prehistory; Canada; Norway; Renne; Rangifer tarandus; renne
• Online Access: https://hal.science/hal-03911589

The remains found in a large number of archaeological sites attest to the essential role that the reindeer (Rangifer tarandus) had in the economic system of European hunter-gatherer societies during several periods of the Palaeolithic. When examining present-day Rangifer populations, a great deal of...