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Britain has the largest Red Deer (Cervus Elaphus) population in Western Europe, largely concentrated in Scotland, and so it is unsurprising that the genetic make up of this population has been extensively studied both for archaeological and stock…

The polecat (Mustela putorius) is widely considered to be native to Britain, while the ferret (Mustela putorius furo) is thought to be a medieval arrival: the ‘received wisdom’ is that ferrets were introduced by the Normans. However, in a 2002…

This poster presents the results from an osteoarchaeological analysis of the avian remains from the Bronze Age to Early Iron Age site of Cladh Hallan. The Scottish Islands contain many archaeological sites, some of which are of worldwide…

The Mitchell Prehistoric Indian Village (39DV2, Mitchell, South Dakota, USA) represents the remains of a village of sedentary hunters and farmers dating to approximately 1000 years before present. The inhabitants of the site made intensive use of…

Palmela, on the Setubal peninsula in south-central Portugal, is some 30 km south of Lisbon. Its castle is situated on a very high hill looks out over both the river Sado and the Atlantic coast which has given it military importance since early…

The ancient Egyptian town Syene (today Aswan) was in the centre of ethnic, cultural and religious change throughout its history. As southernmost town of Egypt it functioned as military outpost and trade centre. Egyptians, Persians, Greeks and Romans,…

It is now common practice amongst archaeologists to interpret burials of fully articulated animal skeletons on sites in Britain and Europe as evidence of ritual activity, particularly on those sites from the prehistoric or Roman periods. This…

We have long understood that the deposition of animal bone in the Bronze and Iron Age is a complex matter, the final event in animal biographies, often as symbolic and social as it is economic. However, we have tended to neglect the obvious fact that…

I am currently investigating the provisioning and animal economy of English sites during the Saxon period for my doctorate, using animal bone data from both published and grey literature site reports. Typically, such temporal and geographically…

The origins of intensive marine fishing along the Channel in the Middle Ages are thought to have begun around the turn of the first millennium and to have been driven by economic forces focused around the developing urban centres of the Late…