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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Vukicevic, Tajana Trbojevic
• Alic, Ivan
• Slavica, Alen
• Poletto, Marko
• Kuzir, Snjezana

Titel

Preliminary osteometrical analysis of metapodium and acropodium bones of fallow deer

Ist Teil von

• Veterinarski arhiv, 2012-01, Vol.82 (1), p.75

Ort / Verlag

Sveuciliste U Zagrebu

Erscheinungsjahr

2012

Quelle

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Beschreibungen/Notizen

• The purpose of this study was to measure the length and width proportions of the metapodial bones and phalanges of fallow deer (Dama dama L.) from the Brijuni Islands (Croatia) and correlate those osteometrical values with body mass. The osteometrical analysis included 28 metapodial bones and 168 phalanges of seven individual fallow deer of known age, sex and weight. The descriptive statistics for the obtained measurements show that the variability coefficient is less than 10% for the metapodial bone measurements and the phalanges length values, and greater than 10% for the width measurements. Comparison of osteometrical values for all the bones with body mass shows a negative correlation. After excluding the measurement values for the three juvenile individuals, the correlation becomes highly positive. Width measurements correlate better with body mass than the length measurements. Osteometrical studies are invaluable as only these data derived from recent populations can be compared with ancient animal populations in interdisciplinary archaeo-zoological investigations. Key words: fallow deer, Brijuni Islands, osteometrical analysis Osteometrijska analiza kostiju metapodija i clanaka prstiju jelena lopatara (Dama dama L.) s Brijuna (Hrvatska). Svrha ovog istrazivanja bila je izmjeriti duzinu i sirinu kostiju metapodija i clanaka prstiju jelena lopatara (Dama dama L.) s Brijuna i usporediti dobivene osteometrijske vrijednosti s tjelesnom masom. U radu je obavljena osteometrijska analiza 28 kostiju metapodija i 168 clanaka prstiju sedam jedinki jelena lopatara poznate dobi, spola i tezine. Opisna statistika izmjera pokazuje da je koeficijent varijabilnosti kod izmjera metapodija i duzinskih vrijednosti clanaka prstiju ispod 10%, dok je kod sirinskih izmjera clanaka prstiju iznad 10%. Usporedbom osteometrijskih vrijednosti svih kostiju s tjelesnom tezinom korelacija je negativna. Izuzecem mjernih vrijednosti tri juvenilne jedinke korelacija postaje visoko pozitivna. Sirinski su izmjeri bolje korelirani s tjelesnom tezinom od duzinskih. Osteometrijska istrazivanja su neprocjenjiva stoga sto se samo podatci dobiveni od danasnjih populacija mogu usporediti s populacijama drevnih zivotinja u interdisciplinarnim arheozooloskim istrazivanjima. Kljucne rijeci: jelen lopatar, Brijuni, osteometrijska analiza, Hrvatska