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# Data for "Pioneering Poultry A Morphometric Investigation of Seventeenth- to early Twentieth-Century Domestic Chickens (Gallus gallus) in North America"

Preferred citation (DataCite format):

  Welker, Martin; Foster, Alison; Tourigny, Eric (2021).
  Data for "Pioneering Poultry A Morphometric Investigation of Seventeenth- to early Twentieth-Century Domestic Chickens (Gallus gallus) in North America".
  University of Arizona Research Data Repository.
  Dataset. https://doi.org/10.25422/azu.data.14557899


Corresponding Author:
  Martin Welker, Arizona State Museum/School of Anthropology, mwelker@email.arizona.edu


License:
  CC BY 4.0


DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.25422/azu.data.14557899



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## Summary

This is the supplemental data accompanying the paper "Pioneering Poultry A
Morphometric Investigation of Seventeenth- to early Twentieth-Century Domestic
Chickens (Gallus gallus) in North America". This file contains linear
morphometric measurements and other data used in the analysis reported in this
paper.


Table 1: The results of a log scaled comparison of greatest length (GL)
measurements taken on archaeological chicken bones from North American
assemblages against a modern reference.

Table 2: The results of a log scaled comparison of breadth measurements taken
on archaeological chicken bones from North American assemblages against a
modern reference.  

Table 3: The results of a log scaled comparison of GL measurements taken on
archaeological chicken bones from English assemblages against a modern
reference.

Table 4: The results of a log scaled comparison of breadth measurements taken
on archaeological chicken bones from English assemblages against a modern
reference.  

Table 5: The composition of the modern standard used in the analysis. Rows
1-14 report morphometric measurements taken on a sample (N=10) of each element
for the modern breed listed. Rows 16-23 report the means of Male (M) and
Female (F) and the log transformation of these. Rows 26-46 report the same
data for the Poland bantam and Dorking used as modern references in figures.
Rows 48-64 report the comparison of North American archaeological data to the
modern reference.

Table 6: The results of a Mann-Whitney U test comparing the greatest lengths
and breadths of archaeological chicken remains from North American and English
sites.


All measurements and abbreviations follow zooarchaeological standards outlined
in von den Driesch (1976).



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## Additional Notes

Links:
  - https://doi.org/10.1017/S0003598X00043817