Polydora Baker

The Sheep Project (3): A Review of Age‐at‐Death Estimation From Mandible Stage Schemes in the Light of a High Resolution Known‐Age Shetland Sheep Dataset

Fay Worley, Polydora Baker, Andy Hammon, Gillian Jones et autres

ABSTRACT The largest published dataset of sheep ( Ovis aries ) cheek tooth wear recorded from known‐age skeletonized mandibles is presented, with raw data disseminated as a supplement. The dataset has previously been used to investigate the influence of sex, nutrition, and …

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WITHDRAWN: Redefining the timing and circumstances of cat domestication, their dispersal trajectories, and the extirpation of European wildcats

Sean Doherty, Magdalena Krajcarz, Alberto Carmagnini, Evangelos A. Dimopoulos et autres

Withdrawal Statement The authors have withdrawn this manuscript as we carry out reanalysis and reinterpretation of our results. Therefore, the authors do not wish this work to be cited as reference for the project. If you have any questions, please contact the …

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Digitally Enlightened or Still in the Dark? Establishing a Sector-Wide Approach to Enhancing Data Synthesis and Research Potential in British Environmental Archaeology and Beyond

Tina Roushannafas, Polydora Baker, Gill Campbell, Emma Jenkins et autres

In a 2019 Internet Archaeology article, Elizabeth Pearson posed the question 'are we back in the Dark Ages?'. This question was made in reference to a developer-funded archaeology sector that was generating vast quantities of evidence and, particularly, in recent years, specialist …

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The 10,000-year biocultural history of fallow deer and its implications for conservation policy

Karis Baker, Holly Miller, Sean Doherty, Howard Gray et autres

Over the last 10,000 y, humans have manipulated fallow deer populations with varying outcomes. Persian fallow deer ( Dama mesopotamica ) are now endangered. European fallow deer ( Dama dama ) are globally widespread and are simultaneously considered wild, domestic, endangered, invasive …

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The Archaeology of Human-Bird Interactions: Essays in Honour of Dale Serjeantson Part II

Umberto Albarella, Polydora Baker, Evelyne Browaeys, Chiara Assunta Corbino et autres

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Launceston twenty-five years after:

Polydora Baker

The Archaeology of Human-Bird Interactions: Essays in Honour of Dale Serjeantson Part I

Umberto Albarella, Polydora Baker, Evelyne Browaeys, Chiara Assunta Corbino et autres

Oblazowa Cave has been used and inhabited by people several times for almost 40,000 years. Among the very numerous remains of birds, remains of medium-sized galliforms are a significant part. They can be food remains of both humans and owls or other …

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Curation of the Historic England Zooarchaeology Reference Collection: Developing Strategies for Monitoring and Controlling Pests and Moulds

Eva Fairnell, Polydora Baker, Sophie Burgham, Claire Tsang et autres

The Historic England Zooarchaeology Reference Collection includes more than 3470 mammal, bird, amphibian, reptile and fish specimens, the majority of which are complete skeletons. It comprises important research collections that support internal, national and international projects, and is being continuously developed, mainly …

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Sheep and Goats

Polydora Baker

The study of sheep and goats (ovicaprids) is central to much archaeological research, with topics ranging from domestication to the textile and dairy industries, colonial impact, and international trade. Sheep and goats have been hunted or husbanded for meat, dairy, fibers, carcass …

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Wild to domestic and back again: the dynamics of fallow deer management in medieval England (c. 11th-16thcentury AD)

Naomi Sykes, Gema Ayton, Frazer Bowen, Karis Baker et autres

This paper presents the results of the first comprehensive scientific study of the fallow deer, a non-native species whose medieval-period introduction to Britain transformed the cultural landscape. It brings together data from traditional zooarchaeological analyses with those derived from new ageing techniques …

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The Sheep Project (2): The effects of plane of nutrition, castration and the timing of first breeding in ewes on dental eruption and wear in unimproved Shetland sheep

Fay Worley, Polydora Baker, Peter Popkin, Andy Hammon et autres

The skeletons of 356 unimproved Shetland sheep from flocks kept at two nutritional levels are used to investigate the effects of nutritional level on the timing of mandibular dental eruption, and of wear in the mandibular fourth premolar and molars; comparisons are …

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The Sheep Project (1): determining skeletal growth, timing of epiphyseal fusion and morphometric variation in unimproved Shetland sheep of known age, sex, castration status and nutrition

Peter Popkin, Polydora Baker, Fay Worley, Sebastian Payne et autres

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