In recent years Lithuanian archaeologists have become greatly more aware of and interested in the information provided by faunal remains. Its potential has begun to draw the attention of researchers from nature sciences, while the archaeologists working ...
Giedrė Piličiauskienė +1 more
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Seasonality and mobility: An Integrative framework for reconstructing Kura-Araxes pastoral systems at Maxta I, Nakhchivan. [PDF]
The Kura-Araxes Culture (3500-2500 BCE) is often depicted as a homogeneous pastoralist horizon, yet its internal economic and mobility strategies remain poorly understood.
Gwendoline Maurer +11 more
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Expanding the Zooarchaeology by Mass Spectrometry reference library for North American mammals: new collagen fingerprints from extinct and extant taxaExpanding the Zooarchaeology by Mass Spectrometry reference library for North American mammals: new collagen fingerprints from extinct and extant taxa [PDF]
Robust zooarchaeological analysis of Pleistocene-Holocene faunal assemblages is fundamental for reconstructing past environments, species distributions, human subsistence and faunal turnovers in North America.
Mariya Antonosyan +11 more
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Faunal Deposits in Pre-Beaker Funerary Contexts at Humanejos (Parla, Madrid, Spain) [PDF]
This study presents the first zooarchaeological analysis of the faunal remains associated with the pre-Beaker funerary contexts of Humanejos (Parla, Madrid, Spain). A total of 3974 animal remains recovered from 31 burial pits were analysed.
Verónica Estaca-Gómez +7 more
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From Trauma to Innovation: A Comparative History of Limb Amputation and Prosthetics in Humans and Ungulates from Historical and Zooarchaeological Perspectives [PDF]
Amputation and prosthetics represent vital themes in the history of medicine and zooarchaeology, reflecting the boundaries of therapeutic capabilities and evolving human–animal relationships.
Jędrzej Siuta +2 more
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Zooarchaeological evidence for the exploitation of birds in medieval and early modern Estonia (ca 1200–1800) [PDF]
In this paper, we discuss bird bones from sixteen sites across Estonia, focusing on the Medieval and Early Modern Period (ca 1200â1800). Zooarchaeology, stable isotope analysis and Zooarchaeology by Mass Spectometry (ZooMS) are used to explore how the ...
Freydis Ehrlich +2 more
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In the Multidimensional Space of Scientific Search (to the anniversary of Robert M. Sataev)
The article is dedicated to the 50th anniversary of the famous Russian specialist in zooarchaeology, Quaternary paleozoology and historical ecology of the Southern Urals and Central Asia – PhD in Biology Robert M. Sataev.
Kufterin Vladimir V. +2 more
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Investigating Animal Remains in Estonia
In Estonia, faunal remains have been an important part of archaeological material since the 19th century. During the 20th century, the interest in faunal history was rather volatile, but gained some stability during the 1990s.
Lembi Lõugas, Eve Rannamäe
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Personal ornaments are key archaeological remains to investigate prehistoric symbolic systems, and, whenever hard animal remains were used for their manufacture, explore topics on the status attributed to faunal resources by past human groups.
Yue Zhang +12 more
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The Chalcolithic time is a period widely debated in Southwestern Iberia Late Prehistory. During the last few decades, the number of contexts known has grown, especially with the discovery and publication of several ditched enclosures from Southern ...
Nelson J. Almeida +4 more
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