Table 4.  Estimates of Sheep and Goat Mortality Based on Long Bone Fusion.

Percentages Indicate the Number of Animals that Survived Past the Age

at the Head of Each Column

 

 

Period

>6-10 months

>13-16 months

>18-28 months

>36-42 months

Iron II

78%

89%

78%

48%

Late Hellenistic

81%

100%

100%

60%

Early Roman

70%

89%

68%

44%