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Mycenaean Pefkakia Excavation Project: preliminary report on archaeological research conducted in 2023 [PDF]

open access: yesPolish Archaeology in the Mediterranean
This is a report on the second season of a five-year (2022–2026) archaeological project at the site of Mycenaean Pefkakia, which is a collaboration between the Polish Archaeological Institute at Athens and the Ephorate of Antiquities of Magnesia. In 2023,
Bartłomiej Lis   +7 more
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Social Zooarchaeology [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
This is the first book to provide a systematic overview of social zooarchaeology, which takes a holistic view of human-animal relations in the past. Until recently, archaeological analysis of faunal evidence has primarily focused on the role of animals in the human diet and subsistence economy. This book, however, argues that animals have always played
openaire   +1 more source

Extreme cultural persistence in eastern-central Brazil: the case of Lagoa Santa Paleaeoindians

open access: yesAnais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências
Lapa do Santo rockshelter, a Paleoindian site located in Eastern-Central Brazil, presented two main occupations; one during Early Holocene (12,460 to 8700 cal BP), and a latter in Middle Holocene (5100 to 4200 cal BP). In spite of this 3600 year gap, the
ASTOLFO G.M. ARAUJO   +3 more
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Late Neanderthal subsistence and foraging mobility at Lapa do Picareiro: a zooarchaeological and taphonomic analysis of Level JJ

open access: yesFrontiers in Environmental Archaeology
Recent revisions of Neanderthal behavioral models call into question the notion of inflexible subsistence strategies. Here, we present new zooarchaeological and taphonomic data from Level JJ at Lapa do Picareiro (Portuguese Estremadura), dating to ~51.5 ...
Milena Carvalho   +3 more
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Foodways of Enslaved Laborers on French West Indian Plantations (18th-19th century)

open access: yesAfriques, 2014
In the plantation settlements of the Americas, enslaved Africans and their descendants were compelled to create a system of foodways that provided sufficient nutrition for their survival and that could be assembled out of the resources available to them.
Kenneth G. Kelly, Diane Wallman
doaj   +1 more source

Sheep and Goat Variability along the Edges of the Al-Hajar Mountains in the Prehistory of South-east Arabia

open access: yesOpen Quaternary
The Al-Hajar Mountains, spanning the Sultanate of Oman and the United Arab Emirates along the Sea of Oman, have hosted human settlement since prehistory.
Elena Maini   +2 more
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Intercambio y uso ritual de fauna por Tiwanaku: Análisis de pelos y fibras de los conjuntos arqueológicos de Amaguaya, Bolivia

open access: yesEstudios Atacameños
Se presentan los resultados del análisis zooarqueológico de dos conjuntos de artefactos Tiwanaku (400-1100 DC), procedentes de la localidad de Amaguaya, en Bolivia.
José M. Capriles F
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The zooarchaeological evidence

open access: yes, 2018
The zooarchaeological sample from the 2012-2014 excavation in Area G at Karkemish includes almost 1100 remains, collected from the Bronze Age, Iron Age and Islamic phases. The present study focuses on the faunal remains from the IA I-III building phase, which account for more than 96% of the total assemblage.
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