Cite this dataset: Rannamäe, Eve; Niskanen, Markku; Matthews, John A. “Dataset on osteometric and zoometric records of horses”.

HORSE MORPHOMETRICS README


*** Dataset on osteometric and zoometric records of horses ***

Authors: Eve Rannamäe (a), Markku Niskanen (b), John A. Matthews (a)
(a) Department of Archaeology, Institute of History and Archaeology, University of Tartu, Estonia
(b) Research Unit for History, Culture and Communications, University of Oulu, Finland
Contact information: eve.rannamae@ut.ee



*** General introduction***

This dataset contains osteometric and zoometric data for horses. It is being made public to act as supplementary data for the publication Rannamäe, Eve; Niskanen, Markku & Viinalass, Haldja (in prep.) Body size and conformation of the Estonian Native Horse and its ancestral populations. Cheiron: The International Journal of Equine and Equestrian History Volume 5, Issue 2.

The research has been financed by the Estonian Ministry of Education and Research TK215.



*** Description of the data in this dataset ***

The dataset consists of six files:

'HORSE_MORPHOMETRICS_README.txt' - this file

'Rannamäe_et_al_2025_Table_1_Archaeological_data'

'Rannamäe_et_al_2025_Table_2_ENH_data'

'Rannamäe_et_al_2025_Table_3_Reference_data'

'Rannamäe_et_al_2025_Jupyter_notebook_ENH.ipynb'

'Rannamäe_et_al_2025_Jupyter_notebook_Tori_Horse.ipynb'