Culling profiles: the indeterminacy of archaeozoological data to survivorship curve modelling of sheep and goat herd maintenance strategies

Journal of Archaeological Science

Volumn 36, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1184-1187

  Marom, Nimrod ^a   Bar Oz, Guy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

Author keywords

Age at death; Culling profiles; Goat; Mortality profiles; Secondary products; Sheep; Survivorship curves; Underdetermination

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEOLOGY; CULLING; GOAT; LIVESTOCK FARMING; MODELING; MORTALITY; OPTIMIZATION; SHEEP; SURVIVORSHIP;

CAPRA HIRCUS; OVIS ARIES;

EID: 61449234010     PISSN: 03054403     EISSN: 10959238     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jas.2009.01.007     Document Type: Article

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