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Holey Goats: multiple cases of supratrochlear foramina in the humerus of caprines from the New Kingdom pharaonic town of Amara West, northern Sudan

Holey Goats: multiple cases of supratrochlear foramina in the humerus of caprines from the New Kingdom pharaonic town of Amara West, northern Sudan
Holey Goats: multiple cases of supratrochlear foramina in the humerus of caprines from the New Kingdom pharaonic town of Amara West, northern Sudan
Supratrochlear foramina (STF) were recorded in fifteen per cent of goat and sheep/goat humeri from the New Kingdom pharaonic town of Amara West, in modern northern Sudan. To the authors’ knowledge, this trait has never before been reported in the published literature for goats or sheep, whether from archaeological or modern contexts. The aim of this work is twofold: to contribute to the growing corpus of studies addressing the incidence and aetiology of STF, and to raise awareness for their possible presence in caprines, thus encouraging their identification and recording in archaeological assemblages.
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Williams, Eleanor
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Williams, Eleanor, Weinstock, Jaco and Spencer, Neal (2017) Holey Goats: multiple cases of supratrochlear foramina in the humerus of caprines from the New Kingdom pharaonic town of Amara West, northern Sudan. Environmental Archaeology, 1-6. (doi:10.1080/14614103.2017.1412005).

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Supratrochlear foramina (STF) were recorded in fifteen per cent of goat and sheep/goat humeri from the New Kingdom pharaonic town of Amara West, in modern northern Sudan. To the authors’ knowledge, this trait has never before been reported in the published literature for goats or sheep, whether from archaeological or modern contexts. The aim of this work is twofold: to contribute to the growing corpus of studies addressing the incidence and aetiology of STF, and to raise awareness for their possible presence in caprines, thus encouraging their identification and recording in archaeological assemblages.

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Accepted/In Press date: 27 November 2017
e-pub ahead of print date: 7 December 2017

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Local EPrints ID: 416031
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/416031
ISSN: 1461-4103
PURE UUID: 0f77e708-0a5f-4e4c-a5b7-72a9b1229be6

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Date deposited: 30 Nov 2017 17:30
Last modified: 16 Mar 2024 05:58

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Author: Eleanor Williams
Author: Jaco Weinstock
Author: Neal Spencer

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