Characterising 1000 Years of Byzantine Era Dog Cranial Morphology: A 3D Geometric Morphometric Approach
51st Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology International Conference, Auckland, Yeni Zelanda, 8 - 12 Nisan 2024, ss.161, (Özet Bildiri)
- Yayın Türü: Bildiri / Özet Bildiri
- Basıldığı Şehir: Auckland
- Basıldığı Ülke: Yeni Zelanda
- Sayfa Sayıları: ss.161
- İstanbul Üniversitesi-Cerrahpaşa Adresli: Evet
Özet
This paper describes the preliminary results of
a digital morphological study of a large sample
of archaeological dog skulls from the Byzantine
(Roman) period in present-day Istanbul, Türkiye.
Excavations at the Marmaray and Metro sites
retrieved several hundred dog crania, covering
over a millennium duration of deposition within
the city of Constantinople’s Theodosius Harbour
- from the 4th to 15th centuries AD. Most of the
crania belong to adult dogs, and are of good to
exceptional preservation quality, making them
highly suited to morphological analyses. To date
only traditional (caliper-based) and nonmetric
studies have been undertaken, which suggest
the vast majority were essentially stray or street
dogs, rather than pets. Here, we report the first
3D geometric analysis of the Marmaray and
Metro dogs. We discuss their morphological
character, the extent of change and stability in
their cranial forms throughout the millennium the
sample covers, and their morphology relative to
comparisons with present-day domestic and wild
dogs.