The prelude to industrial whaling: identifying the targets of ancient European whaling using zooarchaeology and collagen mass-peptide fingerprinting [PDF]
Royal Society Open Science, 2023 Taxonomic identification of whale bones found during archaeological excavations is problematic due to their typically fragmented state. This difficulty limits understanding of both the past spatio-temporal distributions of whale populations and of ...
Youri van den Hurk +2 more
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Large-scale application of palaeoproteomics (Zooarchaeology by Mass Spectrometry; ZooMS) in two Palaeolithic faunal assemblages from China. [PDF]
Proc Biol Sci, 2023 The application of Zooarchaeology by Mass Spectrometry (ZooMS) on Pleistocene sites in Europe and northern Asia has resulted in the discovery of important new hominin fossils and has expanded the range of identified fauna.
Wang N +6 more
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The Zooarchaeology of ancient whaling practices in Portugal: A review and a new Roman Republican contribution at Castelo Velho de Safara. [PDF]
PLoS OneThe identification of archaeological cetacean specimens to the species level often presents challenges, primarily due to the frequent fragmentation of their remains.
Nabais M, Soares R, Hurk YVD.
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Zooarchaeology of the Modern Era: An Introduction. [PDF]
Int J Hist Archaeol, 2023 The last 500 years is characterized by immense socioeconomic and environmental transformations on a global scale. Animals were significantly affected by these processes but were also central to many of the transformations that shaped the modern world ...
Tourigny E, Gordon R.
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New Evidence for the Bronze Age Zooarchaeology in the Inland Area of the Iberian Peninsula through the Analysis of Pista de Motos (Villaverde Bajo, Madrid). [PDF]
Animals (Basel)Simple Summary In this paper, we present the zooarchaeological and taphonomic study of a new Bronze Age site in the inland of the Iberian Peninsula. This study represents a significant contribution within the studied area, as it analyses the Pista de ...
Estaca-Gómez V +3 more
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Seasonality and mobility: An Integrative framework for reconstructing Kura-Araxes pastoral systems at Maxta I, Nakhchivan. [PDF]
PLoS OneThe Kura-Araxes Culture (3500-2500 BCE) is often depicted as a homogeneous pastoralist horizon, yet its internal economic and mobility strategies remain poorly understood.
Maurer G +11 more
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Altiplano agricultural origins was a process of economic resilience, not hardship: Isotope chemistry, zooarchaeology, and archaeobotany in the Titicaca Basin, 5.5-3.0 ka. [PDF]
PLoS OnePrevailing models of agricultural origins tend to envision that economic hardship drove the transition from foraging to farming economies. Growing human populations and the depletion of high-ranked animal resources forced humans into increasingly ...
Flores-Blanco L +5 more
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Archaeology in OceaniaThis article both introduces our Special Issue on “Zooarchaeology and Human Ecodynamics in East Polynesia” and reviews recent research from East Polynesia at large. The seven articles and discussion essay derive from a symposium at the 14th International
Melinda S Allen, Jennifer Kahn
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A Granularity-Based Intelligent Tutoring System for Zooarchaeology
Applied Sciences (Switzerland), 2019 This paper presents a tutoring system which uses three different granularities for helping students to classify animals from bone fragments in zooarchaeology.
Laia Subirats +2 more
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Zooarchaeological evidence for the exploitation of birds in medieval and early modern Estonia (ca 1200–1800) [PDF]
Eesti Arheoloogiaajakiri, 2023 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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