This volume in the ICAZ series deals with the technical advances made over the last twenty years in the field of ageing and sexing animal bones. The analysis of ancient DNA holds great possibilities for sexing certain faunal assemblages (though by no means all), which is an urgent issue in the study of hunting and animal husbandry. It can be assumed that our forebears used more subtle taxonomic criteria than we do today, and it is important therefore that we are able to recognise traits that will allow for more accurate classification in terms of calendar age or sex. The eighteen papers in this book examine the state of research for various techniques of age/sex determination and assess potential future development.

• Cover
• Dedication
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Contents
• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
  • Chapter 1: Vertebrate Demography by Numbers: Age, Sex, and Zooarchaeological Practice
• Part I: New Approaches to Ageing and Sexing
  • Chapter 2: Using Osteohistology for Ageing and Sexing
  • Chapter 3: A Method to Estimate the Ages at Death of Red Deer (Cervus elaphus) and Roe Deer (Capreolus capreolus) from Developing Mandibular Dentition and its Application to Mesolithic NW Europe
  • Chapter 4: The Table Test: a Simple Technique for Sexing Canid Humeri
  • Chapter 5: Sexing Fragmentary Ungulate Acetabulae
• Part II: Testing Existing Methods of Ageing
  • Chapter 6: Reconciling Rates of Long Bone Fusion and Tooth Eruption and Wear in Sheep (Ovis) and Goat (Capra)
  • Chapter 7: Accuracy of Age Determinations from Tooth Crown Heights: a Test Using an Expanded Sample of Known Age Red Deer (Cervus Elaphus)
  • Chapter 8: Methodological Problems and Biases in Age Determinations: a View from the Magdalenian
  • Chapter 9: A Bayesian Approach to Ageing Sheep/Goats from Toothwear
• Part III: Studies in Ageing by Dental Eruption and Attrition
  • Chapter 10: Tooth Eruption and Wear Observed in Live Sheep from Butser Hill, the Cotswold Farm Park and Five Farms in the Pentland Hills, UK
  • Chapter 11: Determining the Age of Death of Proboscids and Rhinocerotids from Dental Attrition
  • Chapter 12: Tooth Wear in Wild Boar (Sus Scrofa)
• Part IV: Applications of Osteometrics and Epiphyseal Fusion
  • Chapter 13: Phenotype and Age in Protohistoric Horses: a Comparison Between Avar and Early Hungarian Crania
  • Chapter 14: Documenting the Channel Catfish Population Exploited by the Prehistoric Inhabitants of the Station-3-avant Site at Pointe-du-Buisson, Southern Québec (Canada)
  • Chapter 15: Epiphyseal Fusion in the Postcranial Skeleton as an Indicator of Age at Death of European Fallow Deer (Dama dama dama, Linnaeus, 1758)
  • Chapter 16: Size Variability in Roman Period Horses from Hungary
• Part V: Studies in Sexual Dimorphism
  • Chapter 17: Environment, Body Size and Sexual Dimorphism in Late Glacial Reindeer
  • Chapter 18: Sexual Dimorphism in the Postcranial Skeleton of European Fossil Elephants