期刊名称：Circaea: The Journal of the Association for Environmental Archaeology
印刷版ISSN：0268-425X
出版年度：1990
卷号：6
期号：2
出版社：Association for Environmental Archaeology
摘要：On the surface of cycloid and ctenoid fish scales, the types most commonly found in
archaeological deposits, are a series of striations, the circuli. The circuli in many
cases form diagnostic patterns which may be used, to a lesser or greater extent, to derive
data about the age, growth rate, and size of the fish (Casteel 1976; Bagenal 1974; 1978).
It is the interpretation of the circuli which is described as 'reading' the scales, but
most fish scales recovered from archaeological sites are difficult to read.
