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      Judging a reindeer by its teeth: A user‐friendly tooth wear and eruption pattern recording scheme to estimate age‐at‐death in reindeer ( Rangifer tarandus)

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          Reindeer ( Rangifer tarandus) have shaped the cultures and provided livelihood to peoples of the Northern Hemisphere for thousands of years. They are still the socio‐economic cornerstone of many northern cultures. Insight into reindeer mortality patterns is important for understanding past human–reindeer interactions and reindeer population fluctuations in relation to climatic and environmental change. Beyond archaeology, assessing the age structures of modern reindeer populations is important for developing wildlife management strategies. This paper presents a quick, non‐destructive and cheap method to estimate age in reindeer in both modern and ancient populations based on tooth wear and eruption patterns of mandibular teeth. We devised the method using a large sample of Svalbard reindeer ( Rangifer tarandus platyrhynchus) of known age. We blind‐tested the method and tested its applicability on another known‐age Svalbard reindeer mandible assemblage. The tests demonstrate our methods' user‐friendliness and reliability to generate reproducible, reusable datasets and accuracy in estimating reindeer age‐at‐death.

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            Kill-off Patterns in Sheep and Goats: the Mandibles from Aşvan Kale

            Reports on animal bones from archaeological sites often include information about the “kill-off pattern” for each species – i.e. the relative representation of different age-groups in the sample. Osteologists believe that this information can be used as evidence for whether an animal was wild or domesticated, and, if domesticated, about the way in which man managed the animal. In this paper a method is described for recording such data for sheep and goat using mandibles and mandibular teeth; the analysis and interpretation of such data is discussed using excavated samples from Aşvan Kale.
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              Zooarchaeology

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                Contributors
                c.cakirlar@rug.nl
                Journal
                Int J Osteoarchaeol
                Int J Osteoarchaeol
                10.1002/(ISSN)1099-1212
                OA
                International Journal of Osteoarchaeology
                John Wiley and Sons Inc. (Hoboken )
                1047-482X
                1099-1212
                04 February 2021
                May-Jun 2021
                : 31
                : 3 ( doiID: 10.1002/oa.v31.3 )
                : 417-428
                Affiliations
                [ 1 ] Groningen Institute of Archaeology University of Groningen Groningen Netherlands
                [ 2 ] Department of Archaeology University of Oulu Oulu Finland
                [ 3 ] Groningen Institute of Archaeology, Arctic Centre University of Groningen Groningen Netherlands
                Author notes
                [*] [* ] Correspondence

                Canan Çakırlar, Groningen Institute of Archaeology, University of Groningen, Poststraat 6, 9712 ER Groningen, Netherlands.

                Email: c.cakirlar@ 123456rug.nl

                Author information
                https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8087-7552
                https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3426-4595
                https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7994-0091
                Article
                OA2961
                10.1002/oa.2961
                8248135
                34220177
                2141b839-557d-4d1d-bb8a-d0d67de19e5f
                © 2021 The Authors. International Journal of Osteoarchaeology published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd.

                This is an open access article under the terms of the http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited and is not used for commercial purposes.

                History
                : 08 December 2020
                : 14 July 2020
                : 14 December 2020
                Page count
                Figures: 7, Tables: 3, Pages: 12, Words: 8179
                Funding
                Funded by: Academy of Finland , open-funder-registry 10.13039/501100002341;
                Award ID: Project 308322
                Funded by: European Research Council , open-funder-registry 10.13039/501100000781;
                Award ID: Starting Grant 756431
                Funded by: University of Groningen Faculty of Arts
                Funded by: Domestication in Action project: Tracing Archaeological Markers of Human‐Animal Interaction supported by the Academy of Finland
                Award ID: 308322
                Funded by: Dutch Archaeological Research School ARCHON
                Award ID: 2018
                Funded by: Catharine van Tussenbroek Foundation
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                May/June 2021
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                cervidae,dentition‐based age estimation,mortality profile,reproducible datasets,svalbard,zooarchaeological methods

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