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At an excavation site in Rotterdam (The Netherlands) amidst a small number of bovine horncores dating from the start of the 17th century, a horncore with a length of more than 50 cm was found. Up till now longhorned cattle is unknown…
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During the late Middle Pleistocene, the caballoid horse lineage was characterised by changes in size and morphology. Analysis of horse remains from the British Isles, where a robust and generally accepted biostratigraphic scheme is in…
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Though there is an ever increasing interest in exploring anthropological research questions with archaeological faunal material, such analyses can be challenging in non-historical, complex sites such as urban centers. This paper presents…
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During the last decade of research in funerary contexts dated from the end of the 4th to the beginnings of the 2nd millennium BC in Southern Portugal, the association of animal and human remains has known a significant increase of data.…
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As part of a long-term osteometric survey of domestic sheep and cattle in southern Portugal, we find no evidence for any size change of these animals across the Iron Age – Roman boundary. If we assume that a size increase in a…
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L’étude archéozoologique conduite sur les faunes de deux sites majeurs du Paléolithique inférieur : Terra Amata et Le Lazaret, situés à Nice a permis de mettre en évidence l’utilisation de…
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Le gisement du Roc-aux-Sorciers, situé dans le Centre-Ouest de la France, est aujourd’hui bien connu grâce à l’étude de sa frise sculptée sur la paroi rocheuse, datée du Magdalénien moyen…
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The hybridism between the gray wolf (Canis lupus) and the dog (Canis familiaris) has been a frequent phenomenon since this last one appear 15,000 years ago, a huge genetic similarity inevitable consequence between these two species. The…
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To date, the question remains open as to whether scavenging or hunting represented the main subsistence strategy used by early hominines, and when the shift towards hunting occurred. I propose to address this issue by analyzing…
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The results of the study of mammalian remains from the Upper Pleistocene levels of the cave site of Grotta del Romito in Calabria (southern Italy) are presented. The animal bones have been recorded following a method based on diagnostic…
