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The Roman invasion of Britain in AD 43 had widespread effects on the material culture and lifeways of the local population. The introduction of new practices and people led to large scale change in society and economy as seen through…
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During the nineteenth century, scientific literature and official reports recorded the occurrence of a population of red deer Cervus elaphus L., 1758, on the island of Lampedusa (Pelagian archipelago, Italy). Osteological specimens…
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Continental Anatolia is today considered as the only geographical range where the European fallow deer, Dama dama (L., 1758), has persisted as a native form, although its census size is dramatically decreasing. This Turkish stock is also…
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Descriptions of Neotropical mammals are found from the early discovery of America. Many travellers of the XVIth century reported about species living in such different world that were the New Indias. Some of them – monkeys,…
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The discovery of America opened new commercial routes and offered to European courts an unique opportunity to acquire new and strange animals. Neotropical animals started to be imported from the early time after discovery together with…
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I will report on the findings of my analysis of marine fish remains from two Holocene assemblages, Blombos Cave (2000 – 300 B.P.) and Hoffman’s/Robberg Cave (3000 – 2000 B.P.) on the southern Cape coast of South Africa.…
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In an attempt to document past herding practices and the diachronic changes in the relationship between the town of Sagalassos and its countryside, a series of analytical methods have been applied on the faunal remains. The heavy metal…
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This paper discusses the ‘improvement’ of sheep (Ovis aries) in southern Britain during the post-medieval period using measurements taken on the metacarpals and metatarsals from the late 18th-19th centuries AD site of…
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The study of Stone Age Economy in Finland is almost solely based on refuse fauna from settlement sites. Based on this meagre evidence, prehistoric hunter-gatherers concentrated on seal hunting. We conducted a bone combustion experiment to…
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Reconstruction of faunal kill-off patterns to infer dairying relies on large diagnostic bone assemblages identifiable to species. Arguably, the most difficult to distinguish by means of morphological criteria, are sheep and goat. Despite…
