To be or not to be a dog mummy: how a metric study of skull can inform selection practices pertaining to canid mummification in ancient Egypt?

Colline Brassard (1, 2) , Stéphanie Porcier (3) , Cécile Callou (4, 2)

1 MNHN - Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle
2 AASPE - Archéozoologie, archéobotanique : sociétés, pratiques et environnements
3 ASM - Archéologie des Sociétés Méditerranéennes
4 BBEES - Bases de données sur la Biodiversité, Ecologie, Environnement et Sociétés

Keywords: ancient Egypt; dog; morphometrics; multivariate analyses; animal mummies

Domains: Life Sciences [q-bio]; Biodiversity; Life Sciences [q-bio]; Ecology, environment; Humanities and Social Sciences; Archaeology and Prehistory

Colline Brassard, Stéphanie Porcier, Cécile Callou. To be or not to be a dog mummy: how a metric study of skull can inform selection practices pertaining to canid mummification in ancient Egypt?. Salima Ikram; Jessica Kaiser; Stéphane Porcier. The ancient Egyptians and the natural world. Flora, Fauna & Science (Proceedings of the Conference of the Bioarchaeology of Ancient Egypt (BAE) & International Symposium on Animals in Ancient Egypt (ISAEE), Sidestone Press, pp.45-60, 2021, 9789464260359. ⟨mnhn-03512237⟩