确定史前遗址被占用的季节,已成为动物分析的一个主要课题。用来进行这种分析的流行方法是:从季节性的动物群遗骸、动物的出生季节、牙齿的萌发顺序、骨骺的闭合以及鹿类角的脱落等作出估计。最近,司佩斯(SPiess)报道了一种确定考古动物群遗骸的死亡季节的新方法。这种新方法是在对许多哺乳动物牙齿的珐琅质和齿质内部随季节变化而沉淀的增长层观察的基础上,将野生生物学家们采用的年令测定法加以发展 Determining the seasons occupied by prehistoric sites has become a major issue in animal analysis. The popular method used for this analysis is to make estimates from the seasonal faunal remains, the animal’s birth season, the tooth’s germination order, the closure of the epiphysis, and the detritus of the deer. Recently, SPiess reported a new method of determining the season of death for the remains of archaeological fauna. This new method is based on the observation of growing layers of enamel and tooth quality inside many tooth decaying seasons in many mammalian animals and uses the year-old assays used by wildlife biologists