INTRODUCTION
Simpson’s ratio diagrams (Simpson 1941, Large pleistocene felines of North America. American Museum Novitates, 1136, p.1-27, 11 fig., New York) provide rapid and easy comparaisons, both of size and shape, for a single bone or a group of bones.
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WITHERS HEIGHT
The height at the withers of a horse used to be expressed in "hands" (one hand = 4 inches) or in “feet” (one foot = 12 inches), and in "inches". Since one inch = 25,4 millimeters, a horse "21 hands high" or “7 feet high” stands 213, 4 cm at the withers. According to Willoughby (...) >continue
VARIABILITY SIZE INDEX (VSI)
The Variability Size Index (VSI) is one of the size index scaling techniques used by archeozoologists (Uerpmann 1982, 1986; Meadow 1986, 1999). Using this technique, global size comparisons are possible even of samples of various but fragmentary and not numerous (...) >continue
WEIGHT ESTIMATIONS
Various attempts are possible, in particular those based on the surface of the upper M1, and on some distal metapodial dimensions. No kind of estimation is really good because species do differ by the relations between their anatomical parts and their weight. This is (...) >continue