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Determination of the death season by dental cementum analysis of horses Equus ferus (Boddaert, 1785) from the Upper Paleolithic site Kostenki 14 (Markina gora) (Voronezh region, Russia)
Note:This presentation won 2nd Place in the 2018 Junior Researcher Open Zooarchaeology Prize competition.
Session: High-resolution analyses of dental remains: broadening horizons
AUTHOR:Natalya Prilepskaya (with N.D. Burova, A.A. Sinitsyn)
Sheep castration in the medieval and modern periods in Europe: modalities, demographics and archaeological evidence
Note: This presentation won 1st Place in the 2018 Junior Researcher Open Zooarchaeology Prize competition.
Session:Social Networks and Animal Ageing and Sexing
Abstract: "There are no livestock species in which as many males are deprived of the…
Demographic profiles and ancient horse use in Bronze Age Mongolia
Note: This presentation won 1st Place in the 2014 Junior Researcher Open Zooarchaeology Prize competition.
About the resources: The resources shared here include a series of slides with descriptive text. The 3D pdf shows a horse skull recovered from…
Do fish otoliths provide a reliable palaeoenvironmental record? An examination of the effects of cooking on morphology and chemistry.
Note: This presentation won 1st Place in the 2014 Junior Researcher Open Zooarchaeology Prize competition.
Abstract:Chemical and isotopic analyses of archaeological fish otoliths are increasingly being employed as palaeoenvironmental proxies. While…
GIS skeletal templates for some common mammalian species
Note: This presentation won 1st Place in the 2010 Junior Researcher Open Zooarchaeology Prize competition.
THE PROBLEM
Zooarchaeologists often want to display data on an idealised animal skeleton, with individual elements or portions coloured…
THE PROBLEM
Zooarchaeologists often want to display data on an idealised animal skeleton, with individual elements or portions coloured…
Fish and Fishing in the late Mesolithic site at Dabki – south Baltic Sea (Poland)
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The topic of the paper concern the preliminary results of the identification of ichthyological materials uncovered in the late Mesolithic site at Dabki, related to the Ertebolle societies and the Funel Beaker Culture. About 100 000 fish…
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A new system for recording tooth wear on pig teeth and its application to the Neolithic assemblage of Durrington Walls (Wiltshire, UK)
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The recording of tooth wear is vital to the exploration of age in zooarchaeological assemblages; however, most tooth wear systems currently only apply to mandibular teeth, meaning that information from maxillary teeth and jaws is not…
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Small carnivores and their prey in Holocenic Sardinia
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After the extinctions of the last glaciation Sardinia entered the Holocene with a low number of mammalian species that fed mainly on grass and seeds. Carnivorous mammals were entirely absent from the terrestrial fauna
Activities…
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Pig Husbandry Strategies During the Middle Neolithic in China : A Case-Study from Three Neolithic Sites in the Wei River Valley
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Focus is on the subsistence economy of the Yangshao period in the Wei River Valley, how it developed through time and how it related to changing environmental & social configurations. Research is based on analysis of faunal remains…
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Camels from Roman Imperial Sites in Serbia
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Remains of one and two-humped camels have occasionally been found in Roman provincial sites throughout the Empire. This poster presents for the first time camel remains identified in Roman deposits in Serbia. The remains originate from…
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