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In order to improve the zooarchaeological work in Asia, we need to review its past. The contribution to the researches in this large area shows that although the work started mainly in the late period of the 20th Century, the major…
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We examined the genus Sus bones that were excavated from archaeological sites ranging from 7000 to 1400 Y.B.P., located on Ryukyu Islands, in southern Japan. In our study, we used both morphological and molecular phylogenetic analyses.…
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Nous présentons les résultats de l’étude archéozoologique et taphonomique effectuée sur un assemblage osseux d’environ 40.000 restes provenant des niveaux d’occupation Uluzien (unités A4 et…
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Dans ce travail nous présentons les résultats de l’étude zooarchéologique et taphonomique réalisée sur un échantillon d’environ 55.000 vestiges osseuses de Riparo Mochi (Balzi…
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Sea otters (Enhydra lutris) were once ubiquitous on the Pacific coast of North America until they were reduced to the brink of extinction following the maritime fur trade (ca. 1780s – 1830s). Based almost entirely on data from…
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Although camelids (llamas and alpacas) were extremely important in every facet of prehispanic Andean economies, very little is known about how these animals were managed. This paper reconstructs camelid management practices and aspects of…
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The Niah Caves, Borneo, is a series of interlocking cave mouths that contain archaeological deposits spanning the last 45,000 years. Excavated in the 1950s and 1960s by Tom and Barbara Harrisson, the caves contain a wealth of artefactual…
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This presentations reviews published records of turtles from archeological sites of Russia and adjacent territories (= territory of the former USSR). Records of Emys orbicularis, in addition to those reviewed by Fritz (1995): Darkveti…
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The Professional Zooarchaeology Group (PZG) was founded in 2005 by members of the Department of Archaeology, University of Nottingham (originally of the Laboratory for Social Zooarchaeology, University of Southampton), English Heritage…
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This paper will examine the utility of archaeological faunal material for interpreting the consumer choice behaviour of various households within the 19th-century gold mining communities of the Cripple Creek Mining District, Colorado,…
