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Les caractères ostéoscopiques chez les Mammifères actuels et fossiles. Histoire de la méthode et apport à la connaissance des populations. Cecile Callou
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| ABSTRACT : Zooarchaeology and, to a lesser extent, zoology still make little use of
osteostopic (discrete) characters in intraspecific analyses. In this paper,
the history of the method is reviewed, starting with the earliest
descriptions of human discrete characters which later shift to
observations on animals and culminate with recent zoological studies that
compare the results produced by the study of discrete characters with
alternative approaches. Through out this review, we intend to show the
interest of the method for a knowledge of modern and fossil animal
populations.
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