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Call for Contributions: 16th Fish Remains Working Group, Oct. 23-31, 2011, Israel
The 16th international meeting of the Fish Remains Working Group (FRWG) will be held in Israel, from October 23rd to October 31tst 2011.
The aim of the meeting is to get-together researchers involved in the study of fish exploitation in the past…
Tags: circular, fish, Fish Remains Working Group, Israel
Bird (of prey?) skull
Skull of a bird, I assume it is a bird of prey given the pointed "beak". Is this complete enough to make a reliable identification? It was found in a strange deposit at Umm el-Marra, Syria.
butchery marks on cattle mandibles
Recently we have found a large number of cattle mandibles, dating to the 16th-18th century AD, that show chop marks at the front part of the mandible. The photo shows some examples and the arrow points to the point of impact. Does anyone know for…
Assessing the reliability of criteria used to identify postcranial bones in sheep, Ovis, and goats, Capra
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Criteria developed to distinguish between selected postcranial elements of sheep and goats are evaluated using modern specimens from the collections of the Field Museum of Natural History, the National Museum of Natural History, and the…
Criteria developed to distinguish between selected postcranial elements of sheep and goats are evaluated using modern specimens from the collections of the Field Museum of Natural History, the National Museum of Natural History, and the…
Tags: goat, post-crania, sheep, taxonomic identification
Stable isotopes investigations of Late Glacial and Early Holocene brown bear finds from caves in the Alpine region
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Bones of brown bears from caves in the Alpine region in Germany, Austria, Italy and Switzerland were examined and dated in the last years. The finds originate from the transition from the Bölling/Alleröd to the Early Holocene.
In…
Bones of brown bears from caves in the Alpine region in Germany, Austria, Italy and Switzerland were examined and dated in the last years. The finds originate from the transition from the Bölling/Alleröd to the Early Holocene.
In…
Animal Husbandry in the Iron Age in southern Poland. An example of archaeozoological analysis of bone remains from Zagórzyce Settlement, Świętokrzyskie Province
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This paper covers a number of issues related to animal farming in the Przeworsk culture on the loess upland situated in the western part of Małopolskie province (Poland). The analysis was based on animal bone material excavated from…
Archaezooological perspectives on the Chinese Early and Late Paleolithic from the Ma’anshan site (Guizhou, South China)
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Ma’anshan is a Paleolithic cave site in the Guizhou province of southern China. The total area of the excavations is ca. 48 m2, and the cultural deposit is divided into two layers representing the Chinese Late Paleolithic and the…
Zooarchaeological perspectives on the Chinese Early and Late Paleolithic from the Ma’anshan site (Guizhou, South China)
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Ma’anshan is a Paleolithic cave site in the Guizhou province of southern China. The total area of the excavations is ca. 48 m2, and the cultural deposit is divided into two layers representing the Chinese Late Paleolithic and the…