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Identification and Interpretation of Growth Rings in the Secondary Dental Cementum of Ovis aries L.

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GROWTH rings in the secondary dental cementum of certain wild mammalian species permit the estimation of age, and in certain cases the sex and season of death for individual animals1.

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  1. Anthropology Department, Dartmouth College, New Hampshire

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  2. Anthropology Department, University of Otago, New Zealand

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SAXON, A., HIGHAM, C. Identification and Interpretation of Growth Rings in the Secondary Dental Cementum of Ovis aries L.. Nature 219, 634–635 (1968). https://doi.org/10.1038/219634a0

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