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Investigating the Morphometric Characteristics of Modern Sheep Breeds from Southwest Asia and East Africa

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The multidisciplinary project Evosheep studies the origin and evolution of ancient sheep breeds by means of archaeozoology, geometric morphometrics, genetics, iconography and epigraphy in the ancient Near East from the six millennium BCE. In the framework of this project, in order to have a reliable osteological reference collection of modern breeds, we created new osteological collections of sheep from Lebanon and Ethiopia and used two existing collections from Iran and Turkey. Along with the geometric morphometrics and genetics analyses, we performed a morphometric analysis on the same modern bone collections to develop methodological approaches for osteological remains. Several biological characteristics have been established on the ten modern breeds, including sex, age, weight, description of phenotypes (type of fleece: wool, hair, coarse; type and shape of the tail: fat, rump, thin) and a collection of overall measurements was taken.This paper examines shape and size characteristics of the studied sheep breeds using the Log Size Index and Log Shape Ratio methods. The diversity of sizes, allometry and body parts proportions are compared for specimens from the same breed and between breeds. The results offer a baseline to investigate the osteological variations in archaeological assemblages.
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hal-04036386 , version 1 (19-03-2023)

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E. Vila, J. Chahoud, S. Bouzid, M. Albesso, A. Amane, et al.. Investigating the Morphometric Characteristics of Modern Sheep Breeds from Southwest Asia and East Africa. ASWA Archaeozoology of SouthWest Asia and Adjacent Areas. Tokyo Japan, Nov 2022, Tokyo, Japan. ⟨hal-04036386⟩
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