Zooarchaeology
View article: Beyond Flesh: The Secondary Products Revolution and the Metabolic Repatterning of Prehistory
Beyond Flesh: The Secondary Products Revolution and the Metabolic Repatterning of Prehistory Open
The Secondary Products Revolution (SPR), a pivotal period in prehistory roughly spanning the Chalcolithic and Bronze Ages (c. 4th-3rd millennia BCE), profoundly transformed human-animal relationships beyond the primary exploitation of live…
View article: Beyond Flesh: The Secondary Products Revolution and the Metabolic Repatterning of Prehistory
Beyond Flesh: The Secondary Products Revolution and the Metabolic Repatterning of Prehistory Open
The Secondary Products Revolution (SPR), a pivotal period in prehistory roughly spanning the Chalcolithic and Bronze Ages (c. 4th-3rd millennia BCE), profoundly transformed human-animal relationships beyond the primary exploitation of live…
View article: From Anamensis to Sediba: Reassessing Early Australopithecine Evolution and Its Impact on Hominin Behavioral Foundations
From Anamensis to Sediba: Reassessing Early Australopithecine Evolution and Its Impact on Hominin Behavioral Foundations Open
The early australopithecine record is fragmentary, leaving critical gaps in our understanding of hominin phylogeny and behavior. New material from textit{Australopithecus anamensis} and textit{Australopithecus sediba} enables a quantitativ…
View article: The Preceramic Nexus: Guitarero Cave, Quinoa, Potato, and the Forging of Andean Agrarian Identity
The Preceramic Nexus: Guitarero Cave, Quinoa, Potato, and the Forging of Andean Agrarian Identity Open
The Andean Preceramic period represents a pivotal era in human history, marking the transition from mobile foraging to increasingly sedentary, food-producing societies. This paper investigates the archaeological significance of Guitarero C…
View article: From Anamensis to Sediba: Reassessing Early Australopithecine Evolution and Its Impact on Hominin Behavioral Foundations
From Anamensis to Sediba: Reassessing Early Australopithecine Evolution and Its Impact on Hominin Behavioral Foundations Open
The early australopithecine record is fragmentary, leaving critical gaps in our understanding of hominin phylogeny and behavior. New material from textit{Australopithecus anamensis} and textit{Australopithecus sediba} enables a quantitativ…
View article: The Preceramic Nexus: Guitarero Cave, Quinoa, Potato, and the Forging of Andean Agrarian Identity
The Preceramic Nexus: Guitarero Cave, Quinoa, Potato, and the Forging of Andean Agrarian Identity Open
The Andean Preceramic period represents a pivotal era in human history, marking the transition from mobile foraging to increasingly sedentary, food-producing societies. This paper investigates the archaeological significance of Guitarero C…
View article: Fertile Crescent to Europe: The Dual Legacies of LBK and Cardial Ware
Fertile Crescent to Europe: The Dual Legacies of LBK and Cardial Ware Open
The Neolithic transition, characterized by the adoption of agriculture and sedentism, represents a profound shift in human history, originating in the Fertile Crescent and spreading across Europe. This paper explores the dual legacies of t…
View article: Fertile Crescent to Europe: The Dual Legacies of LBK and Cardial Ware
Fertile Crescent to Europe: The Dual Legacies of LBK and Cardial Ware Open
The Neolithic transition, characterized by the adoption of agriculture and sedentism, represents a profound shift in human history, originating in the Fertile Crescent and spreading across Europe. This paper explores the dual legacies of t…
View article: Archaic humans in the Middle Palaeolithic Levant conducted planned and selective intercepts of aurochs, but not mass hunting
Archaic humans in the Middle Palaeolithic Levant conducted planned and selective intercepts of aurochs, but not mass hunting Open
While archaeologically challenging, determining whether hominins practised mass hunting before ca. 50,000 years ago is crucial for demonstrating intergroup communication and cooperation. The premise is that killing and processing several h…
View article: Pastoral Workshops? Rethinking Iron Age bone production in the Eastern Tianshan region
Pastoral Workshops? Rethinking Iron Age bone production in the Eastern Tianshan region Open
View article: Living on the shores of the Alboran Sea. The Neolithic on the coast of Málaga (Spain) a multiproxy approach
Living on the shores of the Alboran Sea. The Neolithic on the coast of Málaga (Spain) a multiproxy approach Open
Context The coast of Málaga is one of the core areas for the Neolithic in southern Iberia with the earliest occupations dating to the middle of the 8th millennium cal BP. From the outset, evidence shows a fully developed and highly diversi…
View article: Gray wolves in an anthropogenic context on a small island in prehistoric Scandinavia
Gray wolves in an anthropogenic context on a small island in prehistoric Scandinavia Open
Dogs were domesticated at least once from a yet-unidentified wolf population at least ~15,000 y ago. However, how domestication took place is a topic of ongoing debate, and the ability of human groups to manage wolves in their communities …
View article: Rocca San Silvestro - zooarchaeological record
Rocca San Silvestro - zooarchaeological record Open
This dataset presents the zooarchaeological results from faunal remains recovered at the medieval mining site of Rocca San Silvestro (Campiglia Marittima, Tuscany, Italy), dating to the 13th–14th centuries AD. The material derives from a n…
View article: Rocca San Silvestro - zooarchaeological record
Rocca San Silvestro - zooarchaeological record Open
This dataset presents the zooarchaeological results from faunal remains recovered at the medieval mining site of Rocca San Silvestro (Campiglia Marittima, Tuscany, Italy), dating to the 13th–14th centuries AD. The material derives from a n…
View article: Adapting to Mediterranean island environments: prehistoric human interaction with plants and animals at Piano dei Cardoni (Ustica) and Mursia (Pantelleria)
Adapting to Mediterranean island environments: prehistoric human interaction with plants and animals at Piano dei Cardoni (Ustica) and Mursia (Pantelleria) Open
This study investigates prehistoric human adaptation to small Mediterranean island environments through the archaeobotanical and zooarchaeological analysis of two key sites: Piano dei Cardoni (Ustica, Neolithic) and Mursia (Pantelleria, Br…
View article: Livestock husbandry in Islamic Cártama, Málaga, Spain: the micro and bioarchaeology of an open-air Fumier sequence
Livestock husbandry in Islamic Cártama, Málaga, Spain: the micro and bioarchaeology of an open-air Fumier sequence Open
Multidisciplinary micro- and bioarchaeological analyses of late medieval deposits from suburban Cártama, Málaga, Spain, have, for the first time, confidently identified open air fumier deposits, which are supported by preliminary analysis …
View article: The First of Their Kind—The Significance of Sheep and Goat in the Neolithization Process of Northern Central Europe
The First of Their Kind—The Significance of Sheep and Goat in the Neolithization Process of Northern Central Europe Open
Coastal‐oriented communities of the Ertebølle culture co‐existed in southern Scandinavia 6000–7000 years ago in relative proximity to farming communities. Despite many years of research, it is still unclear what role individual domestic an…
View article: Zooarchaeological study of the Magdalenian sequence of the Valdavara 1 site (Becerreá, Lugo, NW Iberia)
Zooarchaeological study of the Magdalenian sequence of the Valdavara 1 site (Becerreá, Lugo, NW Iberia) Open
View article: Statistical Analysis of Faunal Remains from the Bibiona–Chust Archaeological Site (Results of the 2021 and 2023 Investigations)
Statistical Analysis of Faunal Remains from the Bibiona–Chust Archaeological Site (Results of the 2021 and 2023 Investigations) Open
This article presents a statistical analysis of animal bone remains recovered during archaeological excavations at the Bibiona site, located in the Chust District of Namangan Region, eastern Uzbekistan. The zooarchaeological assemblage der…
View article: Does Palaeolithic Resource Management Leading to Domestication Explain Human “Modernity”?
Does Palaeolithic Resource Management Leading to Domestication Explain Human “Modernity”? Open
Domestication involves the close co-existence of two different organisms, with at least one subjected to artificial selection. Humans domesticated numerous plants and animals. It is said that domestication by humans is a gradual process, s…
View article: Cities are different animals: A zooarchaeology of urbanism at Hamoukar, Syria, 5th–3rd millennia BC
Cities are different animals: A zooarchaeology of urbanism at Hamoukar, Syria, 5th–3rd millennia BC Open
View article: Zooarchaeological data from 1 Ample Street (Barcelona, Spain)
Zooarchaeological data from 1 Ample Street (Barcelona, Spain) Open
This database includes zooarchaeological data from Barcelona focussing on four time periods: Early Roman (1st-3rd c.), Late Roman and Late Antiquity (3rd-7th c.), Late Middle Ages (13th-15th c.) and Modern Era (16th-18th c.). It was …
View article: New Synthetic Perspectives on Iron Age and Roman Environmental Archaeology in the Fens
New Synthetic Perspectives on Iron Age and Roman Environmental Archaeology in the Fens Open
By synthesising extant environmental archaeological metadata alongside newly collated data from developer-funded archaeology, environmental specialists, and published resources, the Fenscapes project has generated a substantial new dataset…
View article: Zooarchaeological data from 1 Ample Street (Barcelona, Spain)
Zooarchaeological data from 1 Ample Street (Barcelona, Spain) Open
This database includes zooarchaeological data from Barcelona focussing on four time periods: Early Roman (1st-3rd c.), Late Roman and Late Antiquity (3rd-7th c.), Late Middle Ages (13th-15th c.) and Modern Era (16th-18th c.). It was create…
View article: Zooarchaeological data from Sotstinent Navarro Street (Barcelona, Spain)
Zooarchaeological data from Sotstinent Navarro Street (Barcelona, Spain) Open
This database includes zooarchaeological data from Barcelona focussing on four time periods: Early Roman (1st-3rd c.), Late Roman and Late Antiquity (3rd-7th c.), High Middle Ages (8th-12th c.) and Late Middle Ages (13th-15th c.). It was c…
View article: Zooarchaeological data from Sotstinent Navarro Street (Barcelona, Spain)
Zooarchaeological data from Sotstinent Navarro Street (Barcelona, Spain) Open
This database includes zooarchaeological data from Barcelona focussing on four time periods: Early Roman (1st-3rd c.), Late Roman and Late Antiquity (3rd-7th c.), High Middle Ages (8th-12th c.) and Late Middle Ages (13th-15th c.). It…
View article: Bioarchaeological dataset: environment and humans in the Ancient Latium
Bioarchaeological dataset: environment and humans in the Ancient Latium Open
View article: Unearthing prehistoric diets: First evidence of horse meat consumption in Early Bronze Age Sicily
Unearthing prehistoric diets: First evidence of horse meat consumption in Early Bronze Age Sicily Open
This paper presents the earliest documented evidence for the presence and consumption of horse meat in Early Bronze Age Sicily, significantly revising previous understandings of equid use on the island. Multidisciplinary analyses involving…
View article: Zooarchaeological perspectives on the medieval consumptionscape at Monte Iato (Sicily)
Zooarchaeological perspectives on the medieval consumptionscape at Monte Iato (Sicily) Open
View article: Diversified subsistence strategies in early sedentary populations of mainland Southeast Asia: insights from the faunal remains at Lò gạch, Southern Vietnam
Diversified subsistence strategies in early sedentary populations of mainland Southeast Asia: insights from the faunal remains at Lò gạch, Southern Vietnam Open
In the past two decades, zooarchaeology combined with improved dating techniques has provided significant insights into the initial appearance of domestic animals in Southeast Asia. The suite of domestic animals commonly associated with Ne…