. Bonner zoologische Beiträge : Herausgeber: Zoologisches Forschungsinstitut und Museum Alexander Koenig, Bonn. Biology; Zoology. Animal exploitation in medieval Siraf 241 measure the maximum width of the corpus of all vertebrae. This method has the advantage of including taxa for which diagno- stic cranial elements were not preserved. For those fish groups which are essentially represented by skull elements, eg Argyrops and Pomadasys, size reconstruc- tion was carried out by comparing these skull bones with those of fish in the osteological collection whose size is known. Table 12 documents t
. Bonner zoologische Beiträge : Herausgeber: Zoologisches Forschungsinstitut und Museum Alexander Koenig, Bonn. Biology; Zoology. Animal exploitation in medieval Siraf 241 measure the maximum width of the corpus of all vertebrae. This method has the advantage of including taxa for which diagno- stic cranial elements were not preserved. For those fish groups which are essentially represented by skull elements, eg Argyrops and Pomadasys, size reconstruc- tion was carried out by comparing these skull bones with those of fish in the osteological collection whose size is known. Table 12 documents the reconstructed sizes of the most numerous fish species caught. Although there is eviden- ce for smaller specimens, the majority of the distinct fish spe- cies represent large individuals, which demonstrates that the fis- hermen frequented those fishing grounds where they could obtain adult and big fish (see below). As already stated, in all impor- tant fish groups the number of skull elements greatly surpasses the number of vertebrae, even when one regards all the unidenti- fied vertebrae. This leads to the conclusion that a part of the catch brought into Site B was butcher- ed, the heads were taken off and the bodies sold in the bazar. Many of the neurocrania of Pomadasys show cut-marks (Fig. 5). Thus it is most likely that the bazar housed a fish Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Zoologisches Forschungsinstitut und Museum Alexander Koenig. Bonn : Das Forschungsinstitut
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