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Van Giffen’s Dogs: Cranial Osteometry of Iron Age to Medieval Period Dogs from the Northern Netherlands

open access: yesJournal 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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The Oxford Handbook of Zooarchaeology [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Book Review. Reviewed by Ellen Hambleton - Umberto Albarella, Mauro Rizzetto, Hannah Russ, Kim Vickers and Sarah Viner-Daniels (eds), The Oxford Handbook of Zooarchaeology.
Hambleton, E., Ellen Hambleton
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Feeding Anglo-Saxon England: a bioarchaeological dataset for the study of early medieval agriculture (Data paper)

open access: yesInternet 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   +11 more
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Estudio zooarqueológico y tafonómico del Yacimiento Calcolítico Las Zanjillas (Torrejón de Velasco, Madrid) [PDF]

open access: yesMunibe 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   +3 more
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Identification, Classification and Zooarchaeology

open access: yesEthnobiology 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

open access: yesRoyal 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   +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

open access: yesFrontiers 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   +3 more
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Animal Use Strategies in the Longshan Mountain Region of Northern China during the First Millennium BC: A Zooarchaeological Analysis of Yucun

open access: yesAnimals, 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

open access: yesApplied 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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Mithraism under the microscope: new revelations about rituals through micromorphology, histotaphonomy and zooarchaeology [PDF]

open access: yes, 2022
This paper is the first to use an innovative multi-proxy approach to obtain insights into hitherto unknown Mithraic cult practices. Using soil micromorphology, zooarchaeology and histotaphonomy, we investigated two mithraea (Biesheim FR, Kempraten CH ...
Ebnöther, Christa   +4 more
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