Overview
The Junior Researcher Open Zooarchaeology Prize is awarded for the best open-access, open-licensed, digital contributions to zooarchaeology from papers or posters presented at the ICAZ 2010 meeting in Paris. This competition is open to…
The recording of tooth wear is essential to the exploration of age in faunal assemblages. However, most tooth wear systems currently only apply to mandibular teeth, meaning that information from maxillary teeth and jaws is being neglected. For pig,…
Prehistoric exploitation of fauna frequently focuses on large mammals, but smaller species also provided a viable human dietary resource. Aside from the inherent recovery problems associated with small bones, a major issue is unequivocally…
Osteochondrosis often referred to as Osteochrondritis or Baker & Brothwell Type 1 lesions, occurs on the articular surfaces of elements, and are visible as longitudinal or triangular shaped disturbances of the articular surface, often described as…
A depositional history for Brimble Pit Swallet is extrapolated through the thorough investigation in taphonomic differences in the assemblage. The assemblage is small, yet diverse, and was generated from an excavation in the early 1990’s for…
Excavations of the Urartian sites on the territory of Armenia were started in the early fifties and revealing great cultural heritage left behind by the inhabitants of these sites. While most of the material finds were well analyzed and results were…
A diverse range of burial rites were employed for both humans and animals during later Prehistory in the Outer Hebrides. The Atlantic island practice of burying people below floors in the late Bronze/Iron Age has attracted considerable interest, not…
