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“Inadequacy and incompleteness of the fossil record” is the most common occurrence in the field of paleontology. However the science and art of biometry has made it possible to look for those ‘missing links’ in…
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Correct identification of animal remains is one of the foundations of faunal studies. It ensures a correct understanding of subsistence patterns, past life styles, and socio-economic and religious attitudes of the people who hunted…
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Most scholars argue that caprine (sheep and goats) products, primary and secondary, were traded or exchanged for cultivated products. This notion implies that Southern Levantine households in the Bronze and Iron Ages practiced a…
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A detailed multivariate zooarchaeological and taphonomic research was carried out at Tel Dor, a large coastal tell-site in Israel, which spans from the Biblical to classical periods. Our research goal was designed to gain insights to how…
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We conducted a comprehensive diachronic analysis of the ancient economies at Tel Dor, a major port-city site located on the Coastal Plane of Israel. The site revealed a wealth of zooarchaeological information about the Iron Age, Persian,…
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The record of more than six thousand bones in 18,75 square meters in stratigraphy makes Las Vueltas 1 a very special locus. The site is located in a land stripe between two lakes, surrounded by low hills built on Tertiary sediments where…
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En este trabajo se presentan los índices de utilidad económica obtenidos para las dos especies de lobos marinos de mayor relevancia económica para las poblaciones humanas prehistóricas del extremo sur de…
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Greek contact is known from the eastern Adriatic shores of Dalmatia from at least the Classical Period, with colonies known on Dalmatian islands from the Hellenistic period (384BC). What were the impacts of this contact upon the local…
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The integration of the study of bone tools in archaeozoologic analysis is necessary to interpret the animal resources management with no partial views. In this sense, this is what we tried to do in the Neolithic site of La Draga…
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The present research aims to focus on one site of Western Macedonia, Dispilio (prefecture of Kastoria), dating mainly to the beginning of LN.
The site of Dispilio, is a lakeside settlement in the south shore of the lake of Kastoria,…
