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Le gisement d’Orgnac 3 a livré un assemblage faunique important associé à une industrie lithique abondante. Le site daté du Pléistocène moyen (MIS 9 dans la séquence inférieure et MIS 8 au…
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The pottery excavated from archaeological sites contains information relating to food processing and storage in the form of absorbed organic residues, most commonly lipids. Such information can be accessed using chromatographic,…
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Documents from chroniclers, naturalists and voyagers that travel along the Pampas and Patagonia (Argentina) between XVI and XIX centuries are analyzed under the aim of building material expectations on the profit of Rheidae used by the…
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The 21 ka BP Epiaurignacian Langmannersdorf locality is currently agreed to be the youngest known site within the Middle Danube region that has been interpreted as a residential camp site at which abundant mammoth bones have been found.…
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Between 1980 and 1991, field investigations at Castel di Guido (20 km WNW of Rome, Italy) revealed a depressed area with an extension of about 1100 m2. Archaeological material includes bones and industry ascribed to a local facies of the…
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Ethnography shows us that every society has some form of food taboos, often focused on the meat of particular animals. While the pig taboo, in particular, has received considerable archaeological attention in the eastern Mediterranean,…
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The term ‘secondary products’ was first coined by Sherratt (1981) based around the assumption that these products were not initially used when animals were first domesticated, and it was originally hypothesised that secondary…
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The Late Neolithic site of Tell Sabi Abyad in the Balikh region, northern Syria, provides the perfect case study for looking at how ancient societies coped with climate change. Extensive excavations at this site have revealed a unique,…
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Fish bones are recovered from the Late Pleistocene deposits of many cave sites across Europe, these remains are frequently attributed to human activity and used to imply fishing methods and strategies, seasonal activity and to integrate…
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Late Pleistocene fish remains have been recovered from many cave sites across Europe. This research focuses on two areas 1) Cantabria, northern Spain (a coastal area), and 2) the Fucino Basin, central Italy (a mountainous area). Fish bone…
