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Ancient DNA research has advanced steadily over the past two decades in both its technical efficiencies and its applications. Bioarchaeology is the discipline that has benefited most from ancient DNA analyses: 1) most biological remains…
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The presentation will examine the relationship between long-term climatic change in the highlands of the Southern Andes, and the changing strategies of hunter-gatherers. These strategies involved a specialization in the use of wild…
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The recording of tooth wear is vital to the exploration of age in zooarchaeological assemblages; however, most tooth wear systems currently only apply to mandibular teeth, meaning that information from maxillary teeth and jaws is not…
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The advent of dairy products as a food source during the Neolithic made available a new source of calcium for humans that, in comparison to other foods, was and remains the greatest natural supplier of this key element. In addition to…
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Animals have been burnt as part of crematory rituals in all pre-modern periods of cremation burial in Britain, as evidenced in the archaeological record. Of all archaeological deposits, funerary contexts are some of the most likely to…
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Red deer antlers were a crucial raw material in the Neolithic period. They were used to construct Neolithic monuments such as the long barrows, causewayed enclosures, flint mines and henges which were sited on the chalk and limestone…
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Winter villages, occupied for weeks or months, were hubs for social and economic activity in the Inuit seasonal round. The locations selected for these villages typically provide access to concentrated resources and stable sea ice. In…
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The open-air Gravettian site of Pavlov I, the Czech Republic, is one of the largest and most important Upper Palaeolithic sites in Europe. The site is an example of a large and long-term camp, used repeatedly by hunter-gatherers between…
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This paper presents the results of the Farasan Archipelago Shell Sites Project (FArSSite) – part of the Southern Red Sea Project. The discovery of over 1500 shell sites on the Farasan Archipelago (Red Sea) represents one of the…
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After the extinctions of the last glaciation Sardinia entered the Holocene with a low number of mammalian species that fed mainly on grass and seeds. Carnivorous mammals were entirely absent from the terrestrial fauna
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