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

Polish 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, Anthi Batziou, Łukasz Miechowicz, Piotr Zeman, Dominika Kofel-Lubczyńska, Vasiliki Tzevelekidi, Rena Veropoulidou, Dimitris Agnousiotis   +7 more
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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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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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Demographics in Zooarchaeology

, 2014
This poster reports the results of a recent online survey on the demographic makeup of zooarchaeology practitioners worldwide. Results are compared with those of an earlier demographic survey within the zooarchaeological community and the International Council of Archaeozoology membership more broadly in order to identify long-term trends and ...
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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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Identificación de guanacos y llamas en el registro arqueológico de los Andes centro-sur con técnicas de morfometría geométrica

Antípoda: Revista de Antropología y Arqueología
South American camelids were essential to the subsistence of pre-Hispanic Andean populations. In Northwestern Argentina (NOA), both wild and domesticated large camelid species—guanaco and llama—have been present in the archaeological record since the ...
Anahí Hernández, Pablo Mercolli
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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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Management of South American camelids in the eastern Andes of Northwestern Argentina: a comparative study of archaeological cases in the last two millennia

Frontiers in Environmental Archaeology
Human-camelid interactions were an essential component in the everyday life of the societies that inhabited the South and Central Andes. While numerous studies have concentrated on this topic, they have primarily focused on the Puna plateaus, where ...
Enrique Moreno, Celeste Samec, Luis Manuel del Papa, Constanza Taboada, Pablo Mercolli, Rodrigo Nores, Stefanie Schirmer, Noel Amano   +7 more
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