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Distinguishing African bovids using Zooarchaeology by Mass Spectrometry (ZooMS): New peptide markers and insights into Iron Age economies in Zambia

PLoS ONE, 2021
Assessing past foodways, subsistence strategies, and environments depends on the accurate identification of animals in the archaeological record. The high rates of fragmentation and often poor preservation of animal bones at many archaeological sites ...
Anneke Janzen, K. Richter, O. Mwebi, Samantha Brown, Veronica Onduso, Filia Gatwiri, E. Ndiema, M. Katongo, Steven T. Goldstein, K. Douka, N. Boivin   +10 more
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Modeling resilience and sustainability in ancient agricultural systems [PDF]

, 2015
The reasons why people adopt unsustainable agricultural practices, and the ultimate environmental implications of those practices, remain incompletely understood in the present world.
Allcock S. L., Anderies J. M., Atalay I., Bar-Yosef O., Casana J., Childe V. G., Clutton-Brock J., Cumming G. S., Diamond J., DiBattista A., Fisher C. T., Flannery K. V., Ford R. I., Gallant T. W., Goldman A. L., Gunderson L. H., Gunderson L. H., Helbaek H., Hillman G. C., Holling C. S., Holling C. S., Holling C. S., Hunn E., Hunt T. L., John M. Marston, Liu J., Marston J. M., Marston J. M., McAnany P. A., McAnany P. A., Miller F., Miller N. F., Mitchell S., Peeples M. A., Piperno D. R., Redman C. L., Redman C. L., Redman C. L., Renfrew J. M., Rose C. B., Rosen A. M., Scheffer M., Smith M. L., Tainter J. A., Tainter J. A., Ucko P. J., van der Veen M., van Zeist, van Zeist W, Voigt M. M., Voigt M. M., Walker B., Walker B., Walker B., Walker B., Westley F., Zeder M. A., Zeder M. A., Zohary M.   +58 more
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Food taboos in medieval Iberia: the zooarchaeology of socio-cultural differences

Anthropozoologica, 2023
The lives of both humans and non-human animals are determined by ideas about what makes an animal good or bad, or why some animals are deemed suitable to be eaten and some do not.
Idoia Grau-Sologestoa
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Syndactyly in Pigs: A Review of Previous Research and the Presentation of Eight Archaeological Specimens [PDF]

, 2011
This paper reviews evidence for the rare condition of porcine syndactyly. It describes eight archaeological examples from Britain, Northern Ireland and France. Syndactyly refers to the partial or complete fusion of two or more adjacent phalanges on the
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Zooarchaeological assemblages contextualize the historical ecology and harvest of fur-bearing mammals in Vermont

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, Alexis M. Mychajliw, Audrey Y. Hsi, Audrey Y. Hsi, Drew An-Pham, Drew An-Pham, Olivia L. Olson, Nanny Carder, John G. Crock, Francis “Jess” W. Robinson   +9 more
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La consommation d’animaux sauvages dans la Corne de l’Afrique (4e millénaire avant J.-C.-début du XXe siècle)

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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Mithraism under the microscope: new revelations about rituals through micromorphology, histotaphonomy and zooarchaeology

Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences, 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 ...
Sarah Lo Russo, David Brönnimann, S. Deschler-Erb, C. Ebnöther, Philippe Rentzel   +4 more
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A Second Mortuary Hiatus on Lake Baikal in Siberia and the Arrival of Small-Scale Pastoralism [PDF]

, 2017
Peer reviewedPublisher ...
Kharinskii, Artur A., Losey, Robert J., Nomokonova, Tatiana, Waters-Rist, Andrea L.   +3 more
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Geoarchaeology and zooarchaeology of Border Cave, South Africa: Initial multiproxy considerations of stratigraphy and site formation processes from the Backwell et al. excavations

Quaternary Science Reviews, 2022
Border Cave (BC) has accumulated over 200,000 years of archaeological deposits that document remarkable evidence of human behaviour during the Middle and Later Stone Age.
D. Stratford, Jamie L. Clark, M. Wojcieszak, L. Wadley, Francesco D’errico, P. de la Peña, I. Esteban, C. Sievers, William E. Banks, Thomas Beard, M. Horn, K. Shadrach, P. Morrissey, Guilhem Mauran, L. Backwell   +14 more
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Human Processing of Rodents in Patagonia: The Relevance of Historical and Ethnographical Data for Archaeological Interpretations [PDF]

, 2019
The consumption of small mammals was a widespread practice between indigenous societies worldwide. Modern taphonomic studies carried out upon bone assemblages from archaeological sites in northern Patagonia (Argentina) demonstrate thatCaviomorph rodents ...
Andrade, Analia
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