Table 5 Values of the equations used to calculate body mass of TD10.2-BB Bison sp. from Gran Dolina site.

From: Ecologically sustainable human exploitation of the Gran Dolina TD10.2 bison (Sierra de Atapuerca, Spain)

Bones or teeth

Variables

Slope (b)

Intercept (c)

r2

%PE

Humerusa

Hm4

2.5499

0.4078

0.96

18

Radiusa

Rd4

2.431

0.374

0.95

19

Tibiaa

T5

2.972

0.6222

0.95

22

Metacarpusa

Mc2

2.6495

0.6016

0.95

20

Metacarpusa

Mc3

2.8291

1.0620

0.94

22

Metacarpusa

Mc4

2.3765

0.7443

0.92

25

Metatarsusa

Mt2

2.9220

0.6162

0.94

24

Metatarsusa

Mt3

3.0306

0.5755

0.93

26

Metatarsusa

Mt4

2.7421

0.5614

0.94

22

Metatarsusa

Mt5

2.9763

1.1416

0.92

28

Astragalusb

ASTDT

2.8760

0.9112

0.93

27

Astragalusb

ASTL

3.1192

− 0.1298

0.94

26

M1c

DVL

3.0400

1.8600

0.84

40

M1c

DMD

3.1300

1.2700

0.85

39

M1c

Area

1.5800

1.4800

0.87

35

M2c

DVL

2.8500

2.0000

0.80

43

M2c

DMD

3.1000

1.0500

0.85

39

M2c

Area

1.5300

1.4300

0.86

37

M3c

DVL

3.0400

1.8600

0.84

43

M3c

DMD

3.1500

0.5600

0.86

36

M3c

Area

1.5600

1.1600

0.87

35

P4c

DVL

2.5800

2.5600

0.82

44

P4c

DMD

3.1100

1.5000

0.80

47

P4c

Area

1.4600

1.9900

0.84

42

P3c

DVL

2.4700

2.8300

0.78

51

P3c

DMD

2.6400

2.1500

0.70

62

P2c

DVL

2.5700

3.0400

0.76

53

  1. These equations were derived from single limb bones in bovids by Scott84 (a) and Rodríguez18 (b) and tooth specimens by Damuth and Macfadden83 (c) for selenodont non-browsers. Hm4: transversal diameter of distal articular surface in anterior view of the humerus; Rd4: maximum transversal diameter of proximal epiphysis of the radius; T5: anteroposterior diameter of distal epiphysis of the tibia; Mc2: transversal diameter of proximal articular surface of the metacarpus; Mt4: maximum transversal diameter of distal epiphysis of the metatarsus; ASTDT: maximum proximal transversal diameter of the astragalus; ASTL: astragalus length; DMD: mesio-distal diameter in tooth; DVL: vestibulo-lingual diameter in tooth. The equation has this form: log (BM) = b (log X) + c, where BM is the body mass (kg for Scott’s equations and g for Damuth’s and Rodríguez’s equations) and X is the measure of bones and tooth (cm for Scott’s equations and mm for Damuth’s and Rodríguez’s equations) in each case.
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