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Wet Season Carbon (δ <sup>13</sup> C) and Nitrogen (δ <sup>15</sup> N) Composition of Modern Plants as Isotopic Framework for Agropastoral and Palaeoecological Studies in Northern Greece Open
Mediterranean wetlands are one of Europe's most vital and endangered biodiversity hotspots. This study determined the carbon (δ 13 C) and nitrogen (δ 15 N) isotope values of modern plants to construct an isotopic framework by which to cont…
Τhe domestication of southwest Asian ‘farmyard animals’: Possible insights from management of feral and free-range relatives in Greece Open
Understanding early animal domestication is complicated by disagreement over what, in cultural terms, differentiates domestic (closely managed? privately owned?) from wild and by the difficulty of distinguishing these categories zooarchaeo…
Management of feral goats Capra hircus Linnaeus, 1758 in insular southern Greece: implications for prehistory Open
Halstead, Paul, Isaakidou, Valasia (2024): Management of feral goats Capra hircus Linnaeus, 1758 in insular southern Greece: implications for prehistory. Anthropozoologica 59 (6): 77-95, DOI: 10.5252/anthropozoologica2024v58a6, URL: https:…
Zooarchaeological evidence for livestock management in (earlier) Neolithic Europe: Outstanding questions and some limitations of current approaches Open
With the increasingly routine recovery of faunal remains from archaeological excavations and zooarchaeological analysis of such assemblages by macroscopic and, more recently, biomolecular methods, we now have an unprecedented wealth of evi…
Exploring Diversity in Neolithic Agropastoral Management in Mainland Greece Using Stable Isotope Analysis Open
New stable carbon (δ13C) and nitrogen (δ15N) isotope values of charred plant and bone collagen remains from 6th mill. BCE Halai, central Greece, together with datasets from 6th mill. BCE Kouphovouno, southern Greece, and later 6th/early 5t…
Shipping amphorae and shipping sheep? Livestock mobility in the north-east Iberian peninsula during the Iron Age based on strontium isotopic analyses of sheep and goat tooth enamel Open
Animal mobility is a common strategy to overcome scarcity of food and the related over-grazing of pastures. It is also essential to reduce the inbreeding rate of animal populations, which is known to have a negative impact on fertility and…
The Contribution of Zooarchaeology Open
This chapter outlines how the zooarchaeological record is formed and how zooarchaeologists extract meaning from it by 'identification' and recording of physical remains and analysis and interpretation of recorded data. It focuses on macros…
Carcasses, ceramics, and cooking at Makriyalos I: Towards an integrated approach to human diet and commensality in Late Neolithic northern Greece Open
Taking the Neolithic of northern Greece, and particularly the Late Neolithic flat-extended site of Makriyalos I, as a case study, we explore the challenges and potential of using multiple evidential categories and diagnostic tools to inves…
Strontium isotope evidence for human mobility in the Neolithic of northern Greece Open
Strontium isotope ratios are widely used in archaeology to differentiate between local and non-local populations. Herein, strontium isotope ratios of 36 human tooth enamels from seven archaeological sites spanning the Early to Late Neolith…
Of cattle and feasts: Multi-isotope investigation of animal husbandry and communal feasting at Neolithic Makriyalos, northern Greece Open
The aim of this study is to investigate livestock husbandry and its relationship to the mobilization of domestic animals for slaughter at large communal feasting events, in Late Neolithic Makriyalos, northern Greece. A multi-isotope approa…
The BICS Mycenaean Seminar 2016-17 Open
This annual publication contains summaries of the Mycenaean Seminar convened by the Institute of Classical Studies. The seminar series has been running since the 1950s, when it focused largely on the exciting new research enabled by the de…
Early farmers from across Europe directly descended from Neolithic Aegeans Open
Significance One of the most enduring and widely debated questions in prehistoric archaeology concerns the origins of Europe’s earliest farmers: Were they the descendants of local hunter-gatherers, or did they migrate from southwestern Asi…