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Animals, 2023 The first millennium BC saw the expansion of the Western Zhou dynasty in its northwestern frontier, alongside the rise and development of the Qin State in the Longshan Mountain region of northern China.
Tianyu Zong +9 more
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A Granularity-Based Intelligent Tutoring System for Zooarchaeology
Applied Sciences, 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 +4 more
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Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, 2022 Digital technologies are an increasingly pervasive medium for zooarchaeological scholarship, providing a means to document and preserve fragile zooarchaeological specimens, share primary data, address methodological questions, and spread the information to the wider public.
Spyrou, A. +14 more
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Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2023 Shifting baselines can skew species harvest guidelines and lead to potentially inaccurate assessments of population status and range. The North American Fur Trade (~1600–1900 CE) profoundly impacted the continent’s socio-ecological systems, but its ...
Alexis M. Mychajliw +9 more
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Afriques, 2014 On the Horn of Africa, the great diversity of natural environments and their evolution over the last ten millennia led to the development of a large number of human societies.
Thomas Guindeuil, Joséphine Lesur
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Alimentation élitaire dans la moyenne vallée de la Loire autour de l'an Mil
Revue Archéologique du Centre de la France, 2023 Based on a zooarchaeological corpus from five high-status sites located in the middle Loire valley, this paper aims to confirm or relativise the criterious traditionally used to identify food habits of elites in the end of "premier Moyen Âge".
Gaëtan Jouanin +3 more
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Osteometry of Duck Species in Northwestern Europe—A Reassessment of Woelfle's (1967) Dataset
International Journal of Osteoarchaeology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study revisits and expands upon Elisabeth Woelfle's (1967) foundational analysis of bone morphology and osteometry, which has long been a key reference for zooarcheological identification of duck species in northwestern Europe. By examining Woelfle's unpublished measuring protocols and incorporating 523 newly measured specimens, we ...
Per G. P. Ericson, Nadja Pöllath
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Parts and Wholes: The Role of Animals in the Performance of Dolenjska Hallstatt Funerary Rites
Arts, 2020 There is a rich iconographic tradition demonstrating the importance of animals in ritual in the Dolenjska Hallstatt archaeological culture of Early Iron Age Slovenia (800–300 bce). However, the role of animals in mortuary practice is not well represented
Adrienne C. Frie
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International Journal of Osteoarchaeology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Sharp force trauma (SFT) is the main criterion used to identify chop mark butchery in zooarchaeology, yet its reliability as a diagnostic feature has not been systematically tested. Chop marks reflect both cutting and fracturing processes and exhibit characteristics of both sharp and blunt trauma.
Tiffany Okaluk +4 more
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Journal of Ancient History and Archaeology, 2023 The material comes from the Late Iron Age settlement of Dobrovăț-La Livadă in Iași County and represents food waste presenting butchering, burning, and disarticulation marks. Considering the total number of specifically identified mammals, 90.36% of them
Daniel MALAXA, Alexandru BERZOVAN
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