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Hofstaðir 1996-1997
scope/ SEM facility. This new facility
(with associated pattern-recognition
software) should allow reconstruction
of growth rates of individual animals
in the past, and provide insight into
past cattle and caprine dietary status
and herding pattern. Caprine teeth
will be sent to Dr. Ingrid Mainland at
Sheffield for micro-wear analysis
(Mainland 199óa, 1996b) to det-
ermine changes in grazing through
time. With the co-operation of the
Icelandic Soil Conservation Service
(Andrés Arnalds), the Natural History
Museum of Iceland (Ævar Petersen),
NABO Models Working Group (chair
Andy Kerr, U. Edinburgh) and the
NABO Northern Farming Ecology
Working Group (chair Jón Haukur
Ingimundarson, U. Arizona), these
zoo-archaeological results will be in-
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