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In the past decades several Roman Imperial sites ranging from villas to urban centres has been studied in Slovenia and North-eastern Italy, allowing us to gain a solid understanding of the characteristics of the husbandry and the…
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Dog is known to have been the first animal to be domesticated. Of the classical “quintet” of Neolithic domesticates, however, this species is of least direct economic importance, whereby less effort has been invested in…
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Since 1996, the Italian Archaeological Mission in the Sultanate of Oman is investigating site HD6, a settlement dated between the end of the 4th and the beginning of the 3rd millennium BC located on a coastal paleo–dune near the…
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Qualitative information from trace-elements has been recently examined in the frame of biogeochemical analyses in archaeology. This work shows our latest advances for its integration in archaeozoology. Our purpose is to contribute to the…
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The control of animal reproduction was among the most important factors involved in the process of domestication. Without enough knowledge from this aspect it seems difficult to understand the dynamic and rhythm of the process, as well as…
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The paper analyzes avian remains found on three sites (Asva, Ridala and Kaali) located on the island of Saarema, the Baltic Sea, Estonia, dated to the Late Bronze Age. The bird fauna is relatively diversified – the 500 bird remains…
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The result of a general survey at Ras Jibsh (JBH) in the southern edge of Ja’alan region during the 2006-10 season will be presented, focusing on the relationship between shell midden formation and Holocene palaeoenvironment,…
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The analysis of the faunal remains coming from Riparo Mezzena (Verona, North-eastern Italy) is part of the research project devoted to the “Human Fossils of the Verona area” project coordinated by L. Longo which aims to…
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The purpose of this paper is to afford a definition of settlement strategies at Mondeval de Sora 1, sector I during the Sauveterrian. The archaeological evidence coming from the main stratigraphic unit belonging to this phase (US 8),…
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The purpose of this paper is to afford a definition of settlement strategies at Mondeval de Sora 1, sector I during the Sauveterrian. The archaeological evidence coming from the main stratigraphic unit belonging to this phase (US 8),…
