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Late Neanderthal subsistence and foraging mobility at Lapa do Picareiro: a zooarchaeological and taphonomic analysis of Level JJ

Frontiers 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, Jonathan A. Haws, Jonathan A. Haws, Emily Lena Jones   +3 more
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El aprovechamiento de los recursos cárnicos en el Castro Celtibérico de Peña Moñuz (Dehesa de Olmeda, Guadalajara) [PDF]

Munibe Antropologia-Arkeologia
En este artículo se presenta el estudio zooarqueológico y tafonómico de Peña Moñuz (Olmeda de Cobeta, Guadalajara), un asentamiento celtibérico del s. IV-II a.C. Nuestros datos complementan las evidencias descritas para otros yacimientos celtibéricos con
Verónica Estaca-Gómez, Laura Aguilar-Molina, Jesús Arenas-Esteban   +2 more
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Sheep and Goat Variability along the Edges of the Al-Hajar Mountains in the Prehistory of South-east Arabia

Open 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, Laura Strolin, Matteo Cianfoni   +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

Estudios 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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Integrating ZooMS and Zooarchaeology to Assess the Châtelperronian and Carnivore Occupations at Cassenade (Dordogne, France)

PaleoAnthropology
Archaeological animal bone assemblages are often highly fragmented, meaning that for over 70% of the recovered bone fragments we do not know what animal (or human) species they belonged to.
Karen Ruebens, Geoff M. Smith, Emmanuel Discamps, Jean-Jacques Hublin   +3 more
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Palaeoproteomic Contributions, and Current Limitations, to Understanding Middle and Late Pleistocene Human Evolution

PaleoAnthropology
Over the past three decades, a new picture of our own ancestral past has emerged through the elucidation of the complex genetic relationships between Neanderthals, Denisovans, and modern humans by the direct analysis of ancient hominin genomes.
Frido Welker, Ragnheiður Diljá Ásmundsdóttir, Dorothea Mylopotamitaki, Leire Torres-Iglesias, Viridiana Villa-Islas, Louise Le Meillour, Zandra Fagernäs   +6 more
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Estimating size-at-harvest from Indigenous archaeological clamshell assemblages in Coastal British Columbia

FACETS
Shellfish have supported Indigenous lifeways on the Pacific Coast of North America for millennia. Despite the ubiquity of clamshells in archaeological sites, shell size measurements are rarely reported due to a lack of applicable basis for generating ...
Dylan Hillis, Kristina M. Barclay, Erin Foster, Hannah M. Kobluk, Taylor Vollman, Anne K. Salomon, Chris T. Darimont, Iain McKechnie   +7 more
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Social Zooarchaeology [PDF]

, 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
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Archaeozoology of the Bronze Age Herders: An Open Zooarchaeological Dataset from the South Urals and Northern Kazakhstan

Journal of Open Archaeology Data
This article presents archaeozoological data from settlements and several Bronze Age burial complexes in the Southern Urals and Northern Kazakhstan. The dataset consists of primary and secondary archaeozoological data obtained by processing animal bones ...
Alexey Rassadnikov
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A Glossary of Zooarchaeological Methods

, 2017
This methodological glossary presents brief explanations of the main analytical methods employed by zooarchaeologists and makes reference to those chapters in the Handbook that provide examples of their applications. The aim is to provide non-expert readers with a basic understanding of how the evidence presented in this volume has been obtained.
Albarella, U., Rizzetto, M.
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