Toiling with teeth: An integrated dental analysis of sheep and cattle dentition in Iron Age and Viking–Late Norse Orkney
Yes A key goal for archaeozoology is to define and characterise pastoral farming strategies. In the last decade, some of the most innovative approaches for addressing these questions have centered on the mammalian dentition, including inter alia sequential sampling of stable isotopes, dental microwe...
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ftunivbradford:oai:bradscholars.brad.ac.uk:10454/13623 2024-04-21T08:07:38+00:00 Toiling with teeth: An integrated dental analysis of sheep and cattle dentition in Iron Age and Viking–Late Norse Orkney Mainland, Ingrid L. Towers, Jacqueline R. Ewens, Vicki J. Davis, Geoffrey W. Montgomery, Janet Batey, C.E. Card, N. Downes, J. 2016-04 http://hdl.handle.net/10454/13623 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2015.12.002 en eng Mainland I, Towers J, Ewens V et al (2016) Toiling with teeth: an integrated dental analysis of sheep and cattle dentition in Iron Age and Viking-Late Norse Orkney. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports. 6: 837-855. http://hdl.handle.net/10454/13623 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2015.12.002 © 2015 Elsevier. Reproduced in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. This manuscript version is made available under the CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 license. Palaeodiet Dental microwear Stable isotopes Dental pathologies Atlantic Iron Age Norse Orkney Article Accepted Manuscript 2016 ftunivbradford https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2015.12.002 2024-03-27T15:48:32Z Yes A key goal for archaeozoology is to define and characterise pastoral farming strategies. In the last decade, some of the most innovative approaches for addressing these questions have centered on the mammalian dentition, including inter alia sequential sampling of stable isotopes, dental microwear analysis and the study of dental pathologies. It is when these techniques are integrated and combined with more traditional approaches, such as tooth eruption and wear, however, that their full potential is realised. In this article we demonstrate how such an integrated dental analysis combining isotopes, microwear, dental development, dental pathologies, tooth eruption and wear can be used to elucidate changing pastoral practices and their impacts on the landscape from the Iron Age and Viking-Late Norse periods in the North Atlantic islands, a period of significant socio-economic and cultural change in this region. Analysis focuses on two case study sites, Mine Howe, dating to the Atlantic Middle Iron Age (MIA) and the Earls’ Bu, one of the residences of the Orkney Earl’s from the 10th to 13/14th centuries AD. Each of the techniques applied to the sheep/goat and cattle dentition identifies clear differences between the two sites, in diet, in culling season, herd health and stress levels, all of which point to potential differences in underlying husbandry practices. These are related to wider socio-economic developments in Orkney at these periods, specifically increasing control of pastoral resources and economic production by North Atlantic elites in the MIA and the emergence of manorial estates in Late Norse/Early Medieval Scandinavia. AHRC PhD studentships; British Academy Mid-Career Fellowship (2014-5) Article in Journal/Newspaper North Atlantic Bradford Scholars@University of Bradford Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 6 837 855 |
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Yes A key goal for archaeozoology is to define and characterise pastoral farming strategies. In the last decade, some of the most innovative approaches for addressing these questions have centered on the mammalian dentition, including inter alia sequential sampling of stable isotopes, dental microwear analysis and the study of dental pathologies. It is when these techniques are integrated and combined with more traditional approaches, such as tooth eruption and wear, however, that their full potential is realised. In this article we demonstrate how such an integrated dental analysis combining isotopes, microwear, dental development, dental pathologies, tooth eruption and wear can be used to elucidate changing pastoral practices and their impacts on the landscape from the Iron Age and Viking-Late Norse periods in the North Atlantic islands, a period of significant socio-economic and cultural change in this region. Analysis focuses on two case study sites, Mine Howe, dating to the Atlantic Middle Iron Age (MIA) and the Earls’ Bu, one of the residences of the Orkney Earl’s from the 10th to 13/14th centuries AD. Each of the techniques applied to the sheep/goat and cattle dentition identifies clear differences between the two sites, in diet, in culling season, herd health and stress levels, all of which point to potential differences in underlying husbandry practices. These are related to wider socio-economic developments in Orkney at these periods, specifically increasing control of pastoral resources and economic production by North Atlantic elites in the MIA and the emergence of manorial estates in Late Norse/Early Medieval Scandinavia. AHRC PhD studentships; British Academy Mid-Career Fellowship (2014-5) |
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Mainland, Ingrid L. Towers, Jacqueline R. Ewens, Vicki J. Davis, Geoffrey W. Montgomery, Janet Batey, C.E. Card, N. Downes, J. |
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Toiling with teeth: An integrated dental analysis of sheep and cattle dentition in Iron Age and Viking–Late Norse Orkney |
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Toiling with teeth: An integrated dental analysis of sheep and cattle dentition in Iron Age and Viking–Late Norse Orkney |
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Toiling with teeth: An integrated dental analysis of sheep and cattle dentition in Iron Age and Viking–Late Norse Orkney |
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Toiling with teeth: An integrated dental analysis of sheep and cattle dentition in Iron Age and Viking–Late Norse Orkney |
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Toiling with teeth: An integrated dental analysis of sheep and cattle dentition in Iron Age and Viking–Late Norse Orkney |
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toiling with teeth: an integrated dental analysis of sheep and cattle dentition in iron age and viking–late norse orkney |
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Mainland I, Towers J, Ewens V et al (2016) Toiling with teeth: an integrated dental analysis of sheep and cattle dentition in Iron Age and Viking-Late Norse Orkney. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports. 6: 837-855. http://hdl.handle.net/10454/13623 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2015.12.002 |
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