Umberto Albarella

Abstract Zooarchaeologists investigate past interactions between animals, humans, and their environments by analyzing the remains of archaeological fauna. Age-at-death distributions are fundamental to faunal analysis and are often estimated by comparing exposed dentine patterns to standardized tooth wear stages that have been associated with relative age classes. We present Bubona, an international dataset of dental wear patterns and associated broad age classes in archaeological cattle mandibles.

Over the last few weeks, life on the University of Sheffield campus has grown more colourful and more interesting, showing just how vibrant and stimulating our academic community can be for the whole city. Following in the footsteps of similar initiatives around the world, students have set up an encampment on the concourse in front of the Students’ Union.

3 THE EAGLE OWL IN BRITAIN As mentioned, the Eagle Owl can at most be regarded as a rare vagrant in contemporary Britain. Melling et al. (2008) consider the recent rare cases of Eagle Owl nidifications in Britain (Penterani & del Mar Delgado, 2019, p. 67) more likely to be the consequence of individuals escaped from captivity than a consequence of natural vagrancy but Warburton (2010) gives far more credit to the hypothesis of breeding as a consequence of natural dispersal.