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Traditional and Geometric Morphometrics and Invariant Shape Descriptors of Catfish Otoliths in the Yucatán Peninsula: Tools for Species Identification and Individual Size Estimation at Maya Archaeological Sites

open access: yesArchaeometry, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study investigates the use of otolith shape analysis for species identification and size estimation in Ariopsis felis and Bagre marinus, based on 181 modern otoliths obtained from a scientific collection and recent sampling in the coastal regions of Campeche and Yucatán, as well as 39 archaeological otoliths corresponding to the Early ...
Ariana Solis‐Gómez   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Commercial archaeology, zooarchaeology and the study of Romano-British towns [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
This chapter will review the contribution that commercial zooarchaeology has made in advancing our knowledge of the exploitation of animals in Romano-British towns.
Maltby, Mark
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A new approach to profiling taphonomic history through bone fracture analysis, with an example application to the Linearbandkeramik site of Ludwinowo 7. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
This is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available from the publisher via the DOI in this record.This paper presents a new method of assessing and displaying taphonomic history through detailed bone fracture analysis.
Johnson, EV, Outram, AK, Parmenter, PCR
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Aproximaciones y escalas de análisis en la zooarqueología y tafonomía sudamericanas. algunas reflexiones sobre su estado actual y perspectivas para su desarrollo

open access: yesAntípoda: Revista de Antropología y Arqueología, 2011
Theoretical and methodological aspects of zooarchaeology and taphonomy are discussed in relation to the development of these disciplines in South America.
Mariana Mondini, A. Sebastián Muñoz
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Parts and Wholes: The Role of Animals in the Performance of Dolenjska Hallstatt Funerary Rites

open access: yesArts, 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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Czy to prawda, że w neolicie bydło i świnie jedzono w sposób ceremonialny? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2006
Recenzja książki: Arkadiusz Marciniak, Placing animals in the Neolithic : social zooarchaeology of prehistoric farming communities, London : Cavendish Publishing Limited, 2005.Agnieszka ...
Lasota-Moskalewska, Alicja
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Hominin and carnivore roles during the formation of the early Middle Pleistocene site of Loreto (Venosa Basin, southern Italy)

open access: yesJournal of Quaternary Science, Volume 40, Issue 7, Page 1252-1268, October 2025.
ABSTRACT The site of Loreto (Venosa Basin, Italy) was first discovered in 1929 and subsequently excavated during the latter half of the 20th century. The excavation revealed three archaeo‐palaeontological levels, with the lowermost level (Level A) yielding the largest number of remains.
Antonio Pineda   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Animal bones from Anglo-Scandinavian York [PDF]

open access: yes, 2004
INTRODUCTION: This chapter provides an overview of the current state of knowledge regarding vertebrate animals in and around York in the Anglo-Scandinavian period. The great majority of the available evidence derives from 16-22 Coppergate (AY 15/3), with
O'Connor, T.P.
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"So bigge as bigge may be": tracking size and shape change in domestic livestock in London (AD 1220-1900) [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
This study presents the analysis of 7966 individual cattle, sheep, pig and domestic hen bone measurements from 105 sites excavated in London dating to the period AD 1220–1900. Multiple episodes of size change are identified, although the speed and timing
Holmes, Matilda   +2 more
core   +1 more source

Proteomic analysis resulting in species‐level identification of recently diverged North American arvicoline rodents

open access: yesJournal of Quaternary Science, Volume 40, Issue 7, Page 1240-1251, October 2025.
ABSTRACT North American arvicoline rodents have long been considered to have high biogeographic, biochronologic, and paleoecological value. They provide relative dating of faunal assemblages when absolute dating is not possible and contribute to paleobiome characterization.
Erin M. Keenan Early   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

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