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Investigating Animal Remains in Estonia

Archaeologia Lituana, 2020
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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Faunal Remains manipulation during the Chalcolithic in Pits 13, 16 and 54 from Monte das Cabeceiras 2 (Beja, Southern Portugal)

Zephyrus, 2022
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, Ana Catarina Basílio, Célia Silva, António Monge Soares, Nelson Borges   +4 more
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Van Giffen’s Dogs: Cranial Osteometry of Iron Age to Medieval Period Dogs from the Northern Netherlands

Journal of Open Archaeology Data, 2018
This paper presents biometric data from a collection of 488 dogs skulls originating from 58 (archaeological) sites in the northern Netherlands dating from the Iron Age to the Medieval Period.
E. E. Scheele, Canan Çakırlar
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Feeding Anglo-Saxon England: a bioarchaeological dataset for the study of early medieval agriculture (Data paper)

Internet Archaeology, 2023
The FeedSax project combined bioarchaeological data with evidence from settlement archaeology to investigate how, when and why the expansion of arable farming occurred between the 8th-13th centuries in England. It has generated and released a vast, multi-
Mark McKerracher, Helena Hamerow, Amy Bogaard, Christopher Bronk Ramsey, Michael Charles, Emily Forster, John Hodgson, Matilda Holmes, Samantha Neil, Tina Roushannafas, Elizabeth Stroud, Richard Thomas   +11 more
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Estudio zooarqueológico y tafonómico del Yacimiento Calcolítico Las Zanjillas (Torrejón de Velasco, Madrid) [PDF]

Munibe Antropologia-Arkeologia, 2023
Las Zanjillas (Torrejón de Velasco, Madrid) es un yacimiento Calcolítico precampaniforme ubicado en el valle medio del Tajo, caracterizado por más de 500 estructuras que incluyen silos y cubetas.
Verónica Estaca-Gómez, German López, Jorge Morín, José Yravedra   +3 more
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The Zooarchaeology of Israelite Religion: Methods and Practice

Religions, 2019
This essay aims to provide a methodological framework for the application of zooarchaeology to the study of Israelite religion for the purpose of providing an overview of this growing subfield for the non-specialist and for inviting further conversation ...
Jonathan S. Greer
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Identification, Classification and Zooarchaeology

Ethnobiology Letters, 2011
Identification of preserved biological materials is often regarded as a skill which has little to do with analysis and interpretation. This paper argues that in zooarchaeological studies―here with particular reference to vertebrate remains―identification
Jonathan C. Driver
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Collagen fingerprinting traces the introduction of caprines to island Eastern Africa

Royal Society Open Science, 2021
The human colonization of eastern Africa's near- and offshore islands was accompanied by the translocation of several domestic, wild and commensal fauna, many of which had long-term impacts on local environments.
Courtney Culley, Anneke Janzen, Samantha Brown, Mary E. Prendergast, Jesse Wolfhagen, Bourhane Abderemane, Abdallah K. Ali, Othman Haji, Mark C. Horton, Ceri Shipton, Jillian Swift, Tabibou A. Tabibou, Henry T. Wright, Nicole Boivin, Alison Crowther   +14 more
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Comparative osteomorphological criteria for differentiating mandibular teeth and post-cranial skeletons of takins (Budorcas taxicolor) from Bovini species on Tibetan Plateau

Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2022
For centuries, hunting and herding of large bovids were important for human survival at high altitudes on the Tibetan Plateau. However, little is known about past human relations with iconic plateau animals, such as takins (Budorcas taxicolor Hodgson ...
Zhengwei Zhang, Zhengwei Zhang, Fan Li, Fiona Marshall   +3 more
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Integrating Zooarchaeology and Paleoethnobotany: A Consideration of Issues, Methods, and Cases

Ethnobiology Letters, 2010
Review of Integrating Zooarchaeology and Paleoethnobotany: A Consideration of Issues, Methods, and Cases. Amber M. VanDerwarker and Tanya M. Peres, eds. 2010. Springer, New York. Pp. 317, 13 color illustrations, 13 black-and-white illustrations. $129.00 (
Virginia L. Butler
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