Title:

Differences in the Body Size of Cattle in the Archaeozoological Materials in the Polish Territories

Subtitle:

Przegląd Archeologiczny T. 36 (1989)

Creator:

Lasota-Moskalewska, Alicja

Publisher:

Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Historii Kultury Materialnej

Place of publishing:

Wrocław

Date issued/created:

1989

Description:

il. ; 29 cm

Type of object:

Czasopismo/Artykuł

Subject and Keywords:

neolit-średniowiecze wczesne -- Polska ; populacje zwierzęce ; bydło ; udomowienie bydła ; ewolucja bydła ; szczątki kostne zwierząt ; archeozoologiczne analizy

Abstract:

The changes taking place in cattle from the middle Neolithic to early Middle Ages have been studied determining the withers height and the circumference of the horn-core using a scoring system in points common to both these features. This ensured conditions for their comparability. The determination of withers height in points has not yet been used, and the present report is the first quantitative and graphic approach to this problem. On the basis of the obtained results it may be said that in middle and younger Neolithic the prevailing type was that of primigenous cattle, with large withers height and large circumference of the horn-core. A part of the cattle were, however, already of low height, but still with large horn-core, that is these animals constituted a transitional form between the primigenous cattle and the brachycerous cattle. The Neolithic may be thus regarded as the beginning of the time ofevolution of this latter type. In the Bronze Age and in the early Iron Age the primigenous cattle was replaced by the brachycerous type, and this has spread widely having already a more stabilized morphological type. However, intermediate forms between these twotypes kept occurring. In Early Middle Ages the brachycerous type has been definitely stabilized and the intermediate forms disappeared probably

Relation:

Przegląd Archeologiczny

Volume:

36

Start page:

89

End page:

95

Resource type:

Tekst

Detailed Resource Type:

Artykuł

Format:

application/pdf

Resource Identifier:

0079-7138

Source:

IAiE PAN, sygn. P III 149 ; IAiE PAN, sygn. P III 272 ; IAiE PAN, sygn. P III 353 ; click here to follow the link

Language:

eng

Rights:

Prawa zastrzeżone - dostęp nieograniczony

Terms of use:

Zasób chroniony prawem autorskim. Korzystanie dozwolone w zakresie określonym przez przepisy o dozwolonym użytku.

Digitizing institution:

Instytut Archeologii i Etnologii Polskiej Akademii Nauk

Original in:

Biblioteka Instytutu Archeologii i Etnologii PAN

Projects co-financed by:

Ministra Nauki i Szkolnictwa Wyższego ; Działalność upowszechniająca naukę (DUN)

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