Program and Abstracts. — Università del Salento, 2019. — 248 p. — ISBN: 978-88-8305-146-3. The conference aims to encourage the presentation of most recent archaeobotanical discoveries, promote the debate on fundamental questions and foster collaboration between international scholars active in the field. The conference is dedicated to the memory of Prof. Maria Follieri, a...
University of New Mexico Press, 2017. — 312 p. This volume brings together the latest approaches in bioarchaeology in the study of sex and gender. Archaeologists have long used skeletal remains to identify gender. Contemporary bioarchaeologists, however, have begun to challenge the theoretical and methodological basis for sex assignment from the skeleton. Simultaneously, they have...
Archaeopress, 2016. — 22 p. Archaeological excavations at the Eleuthernian burial ground of Orthi Petra continue to yield significant elements of the archaeo-anthropological record, the subject matter of continuous interdisciplinary research, outreach, national and international acclaim. Among a plethora of features discovered, unearthing components of a unique nexus to the...
Archaeopress, 2019. — 50 p. This essay presents a unique forensic/bioarchaeological investigation of the traumatised remains of an older male from Thasos, exploring the nature of the executing weapon reconstructed in bronze, the archaeometry on the trajectory and factors of speed and force at the deliverance of the deadly strike.
Archaeopress, 2016. — 94 p. This report aims to offer glimpses of the human condition on Naxos island, Greece, focusing on the archaeoanthropologic study of the human skeletal remains along with associated contexts of faunal materials recovered from the Geometric (9th -7th c BC) component of the burial ground site of Plithos in Chora at Naxos island.
Oxbow Books, 2021. — 224 p. This new collection of papers from leading experts provides an overview of cutting-edge research in Old World zooarchaeology. The research presented here spans various areas across Europe, Western Asia and North Africa – from the Mediterranean to the Atlantic. Several chapters focus on Iberia, but the eastern Mediterranean and Britain are also...
With Mauro Rizzetto, Hannah Russ, Kim Vickers, and Sarah Viner-Daniels. — Oxford University Press, 2017. — 860 p. — ISBN: 978–0–19–968647–6. This book presents a survey of world archaeology, from the point of view of animal remain studies. It can be considered as a showcase for world zooarchaeology. Forty-eight chapters written by researchers from twenty-five countries discuss...
Oxford University Press, 2007. — 454 p. — ISBN: 978–0–19–920704–6. Pigs are one of the most iconic but also paradoxical animals ever to have developed a relationship with humans. This relationship has been a long and varied one: from noble wild beast of the forest to mass produced farmyard animal from a symbol of status and plenty to a widespread religious food taboo from...
Oxford University Press, 2017. — 860 p. - Combines an analysis of literary, visual, documentary and material evidence - Uses quantitative analysis in the study of imperial ideals, values and images to provide an empirical foundation for this area of study - Draws on recent work in historical sociology and comparative empires, providing an interdisciplinary approach This book...
Thames & Hudson, 2015. — 224 p. Some 2,000 years ago, certain unfortunate individuals were violently killed and buried not in graves but in bogs. What was a tragedy for the victims has proved an archaeologist’s dream, for the peculiar and acidic properties of the bog have preserved the bodies so that their skin, hair, soft tissue, and internal organs - even their brains - survive....
BAR Publishing, 2016. — 257 p. — (BAR International Series 2822). Este trabajo pretende ser una revisión sistemática de los principales yacimientos, con fósiles de ungulados, del Pleistoceno Superior de Castilla y León (España). Los restos se han analizado desde un punto de vista morfológico y métrico. La clasificación taxonómica se basa en los modelos utilizados actualmente en...
University Press of Florida, 2017. — 266 p. A monumental synthesis of a half century of research, this book investigates human remains from three communities from the ancient Nubian civilization of the Nile River Valley: Meinarti, Kulubnarti, and an unnamed shantytown of underclass laborers. The analyses of these surveys chart the evolution of the field of physical...
Oxford: Archaeopress, 2006. — 200 pp. — (British Archaeological Reports, International Series No. 1538). — ISBN: 1-84171-970-6. This book addresses the issue of the temporal origins of transhumant pastoralism in temperate southeastern Europe (northern half of the Balkan Peninsula). In recent years, several hypotheses have been suggested to explain when and why transhumant...
University Press of Colorado, 2023. — 216 p. Through creative combinations of ethnohistoric evidence, iconography, and contextual analysis of faunal remains, this work offers new insight into the mechanisms involved in food provisioning for complex societies. Contributors combine zooarchaeological and historical data from global case studies to analyze patterns in...
Academic Press, 1980. — 235 p. — (Studies in archaeological science). — ISBN: 0-12-074150-4. This book arose from an almost chance meeting between an archaeologist with an interest in bones and their diseases, and a veterinary pathologist with an interest in archaeology: it is hoped that the resultant text is a fusion of their ideas on animal diseases in antiquity. In recent...
Oxbow Books, 2018. — 300 p. Animals have always been integral to culture. Their interaction with humans has intensified since the onset of domestication resulting in higher incidences of animal disease due to human intervention. At the same time, human care has counterbalanced pressures of natural selection, reducing morbidity among wild animals. Prior to the emergence of a...
Oxbow Books, 2018. — 300 p. Animals have always been integral to culture. Their interaction with humans has intensified since the onset of domestication resulting in higher incidences of animal disease due to human intervention. At the same time, human care has counterbalanced pressures of natural selection, reducing morbidity among wild animals. Prior to the emergence of a...
University Press of Florida, 2020. — 284 p. This volume offers a rich archaeological portrait of the human-canine connection. Contributors investigate the ways people have viewed and valued dogs in different cultures around the world and across the ages. Case studies from North and South America, the Arctic, Australia, and Eurasia present evidence for dogs in roles including...
University of Florida Press, 2020. — 448 p. Abnormal burial practices have long been a source of fascination and debate within the fields of mortuary archaeology and bioarchaeology. The Odd, the Unusual, and the Strange investigates an unparalleled geographic and temporal range of burials that differ from the usual customs of their broader societies, emphasizing the importance...
Oxbow Books, 2018. — 154 p. As a result of recent methodological and theoretical developments in approaches to the human body in archaeological contexts, the theme has recently become a particularly dynamic research area. This volume, building on the Neolithic Studies Group conference 2014, captures the variety of debates developing across research into the Neolithic bodies of...
Oxbow Books, 2018. — 154 p. As a result of recent methodological and theoretical developments in approaches to the human body in archaeological contexts, the theme has recently become a particularly dynamic research area. This volume, building on the Neolithic Studies Group conference 2014, captures the variety of debates developing across research into the Neolithic bodies of...
Budapest: Akademiai Kiado, 1974. — 597 pp. — ISBN: 963-05-0251-8. In the initial stages of the research on domestic animals many comprehensive works on the emergence of domestic animals appeared. However, as at that time the number of bone samples investigated was very low, these works were inevitably reduced to generalisations and offered very few concrete facts. Today, by way...
University Press of Florida, 2011. — xx + 323 p. — (Bioarchaeological Interpretations of the Human Past: Local, Regional, and Global Perspectives). — ISBN: 978-0-8130-3556-7. The current volume places emphasis on the methodology and theory of decapitation, decoration, and deformation of the human head/skull from areas as varied as Roman Britain and Spanish Colonial Georgia to...
Oxbow Books, 2008. — 160 p. Archaeology often struggles in envisioning real people behind the world of material objects it studies. Even when dealing with skeletal remains archaeologists routinely reduce them to long lists of figures and attributes. Such a fragmentation of past subjects and their bodies, if analytically necessary, is hardly satisfactory. While material culture...
Harvard University Press, 1987. — 140 p. On August 1, 1984, Andy Mould picked up what looked like a piece of wood at a peat-shredding mill in Cheshire, England. He tossed it toward his workmate and it fell to the ground, revealing an ancient human foot. Archaeologists using radiocarbon dating methods found that the Lindow man - named after the Lindow moss that enveloped him - was...
Springer, 2019. — 344 p. Bioarchaeologists who study human remains in ancient, historic and contemporary settings are securely anchored within anthropology as anthropologists, yet they have not taken on the pundits the way other subdisciplines within anthropology have. Popular science authors frequently and selectively use bioarchaeological data on demography, disease,...
Academic Press, 2006. — 628 p. The core subject matter of bioarchaeology is the lives of past peoples, interpreted anthropologically. Human remains, contextualized archaeologically and historically, form the unit of study. Integrative and frequently inter-disciplinary, bioarchaeology draws methods and theoretical perspectives from across the sciences and the humanities....
Academic Press, 2006. — 628 p. The core subject matter of bioarchaeology is the lives of past peoples, interpreted anthropologically. Human remains, contextualized archaeologically and historically, form the unit of study. Integrative and frequently inter-disciplinary, bioarchaeology draws methods and theoretical perspectives from across the sciences and the humanities....
Oxbow Books, 2010. — 320 p. Animals in complex human societies are often both meal and symbol, related to everyday practice and ritual. People in such societies may be characterized as having unequal access to such resources, or else the meaning of animals may differ for component groups. Here, in this book, 28 peer-reviewed papers that span 4 continents and the Caribbean...
Oxbow Books, 2010. — 320 p. Animals in complex human societies are often both meal and symbol, related to everyday practice and ritual. People in such societies may be characterized as having unequal access to such resources, or else the meaning of animals may differ for component groups. Here, in this book, 28 peer-reviewed papers that span 4 continents and the Caribbean...
University of California, Los Angeles, 2006. — 214 p. — (Monographs: Cotsen Institute of Archaeology 55). — ISBN 10 1931745277, ISBN 13 9781931745277. During the Graeco-Roman period, Berenike served as a gateway to the outside world together with Myos Hormos. Commodities were imported from Africa south of the Sahara, Arabia, and India into the Greek and Roman Empire, the...
Routledge, 2020. — 224 p. Theoretical Approaches in Bioarchaeology emphasizes how several different theoretical perspectives can be used to reconstruct the biocultural experiences of humans in the past. Over the past few decades, bioarchaeology has been transformed through methodological revisions, technological advances, and the inclusion of external theoretical frameworks...
BAR Publishing, 2020. — 661 p. — (BAR International Series 2975). L’ouvrage présente une analyse morphométrique et biométrique des Caprinae (Ovibovini et Caprini) actuels et du plio-pléistocène d’Europe occidentale provenant de 200 sites. De nouvelles interprétations et propositions taxonomiques et phylogénétiques y sont développées. La création d’une nouvelle tribu, Ovini, est...
Odile Jacob, 2019. — 256 p. Dans ce livre, Éric Crubézy nous emmène à la découverte des rites funéraires du monde entier et nous montre, à travers des documents inédits, qu’il est possible, malgré leur diversité apparente, de relier des pratiques aussi différentes que l’enterrement chrétien et le retournement des morts à Madagascar. De la Sibérie au Cameroun, en passant par...
London: Routledge, 1987. — 224 p. — ISBN: 0-415-15148-1. The first section of the book describes how zoo-archaeologists go about studying faunal remains from archaeological sites, and to explore the nature of these remains, and some of the information they provide. The second part discusses the relationship between humans and animals from earliest Africa to post-Medieval...
Oxbow Books (2015). — 174 p. In April 1485, a marble sarcophagus was found on the outskirts of Rome. It contained the remains of a young Roman woman so well-preserved that she appeared to have only just died and the sarcophagus was placed on public view, attracting great crowds. Such a find reminds us of the power of the dead body to evoke in the minds of living people, be they...
British Archaeological Reports, 2017. — 288 p. — (BAR International Series 2840). The prehistoric communities in Iberia have never been investigated before using a cutting-edge and multidisciplinary approach. In this research, the latest techniques are applied in order to allow a reconstruction of prehistoric social structure and social organization. Specifically, this...
BAR Publishing, 2021. — 145 p. — (BAR International Series 3031/Archaeology of East Asia 4). This monograph uses an archaeological approach to decipher folk classification of animals in ancient societies. Ningning Dong collates faunal data from three late Neolithic and early Bronze Age sites in central China and integrates multiple lines of evidence. The analyses demonstrate a...
University of Florida Press, 2023. — 350 p. The Biocultural Consequences of Contact in Mexico explores how Mexican populations have been shaped both culturally and biologically by the arrival of Spanish conquistadors and the years following the defeat of the Aztec empire in 1521. Contributors to this volume draw on a diverse set of methods from archaeology, bioarchaeology,...
Sidestone Press, 2022. — 264 S. Wie gestaltete sich das soziale Zusammenleben zwischen Menschen und nichtmenschlichen Arten als eine eng verwobene Gemeinschaft in prähistorischer Zeit? In verschiedensten Disziplinen der Geistes-, Sozial- und Lebenswissenschaften werden verstärkt gesellschaftliche Grundannahmen über nichtmenschliche Arten hinterfragt. Die aus dieser Wende...
BAR Publishing, 2016. — 191 p. — (BAR International Series 2831). Les populations des VIIIe-Xe siècles du nord-ouest de la France peuvent être analysées grâce à l'étude de leurs ossements. Pour ceci, la mise en pratique de l'anthropologie biologique (sexe, âge, santé, activité) nécessite une méthodologie rigoureuse et des critères nettement définis détaillés ici. La mise au...
Institut français d'archéologie orientale, 1905. — 313 p. — (Catalogue général des antiquités égyptiennes du Musée du Caire). Le Musée du Caire est le premier musée consacré aux antiquités égyptiennes qui puisse montrer toute une collection de squelettes composée au moyen de momies d'animaux, néanmoins la série est encore bien incomplète par suite du court espace de temps dans...
III International Interdisciplinary Meetings ‘‘Motifs through the Ages’’. Book of Abstracts. — Bytów: Muzeum Zachodniokaszubskie w Bytowie, 2017. — 52 p. — ISBN: 978-83-65472-05-2. III Międzynarodowe Spotkania Interdyscyplinarne „Motywy Przez Wieki”. Książka Abstraktów. — Bytów: Muzeum Zachodniokaszubskie w Bytowie, 2017. — 52 s. — ISBN: 978-83-65472-05-2. This book includes...
Springer, 2017. — 232 p. This volume uses bioarchaeological remains to examine the complexities and diversity of past socio-sexual lives. This book does not begin with the presumption that certain aspects of sex, gender, and sexuality are universal and longstanding. Rather, the case studies within - extend from Neolithic Europe to pre-Columbian Mesoamerica to the...
Springer, 2018. — 604 p. This volume is a comprehensive, critical introduction to vertebrate zooarchaeology, the field that explores the history of human relations with animals from the Pliocene to the Industrial Revolution. The book is organized into five sections, each with an introduction, that leads the reader systematically through this swiftly expanding field. Section...
Springer, 2018. — 604 p. This volume is a comprehensive, critical introduction to vertebrate zooarchaeology, the field that explores the history of human relations with animals from the Pliocene to the Industrial Revolution. The book is organized into five sections, each with an introduction, that leads the reader systematically through this swiftly expanding field. Section...
Manchester University Press, 2021. — 328 p. The 'bog bodies' of north-western Europe have captured the imaginations of poets and archaeologists alike, allowing us to come face to face with individuals from the past. Their exceptional preservation makes it possible to examine minute details of their lives and deaths, making us reflect poignantly on our own mortality. In this...
Lockwood Press, 2022. — 336 p. This volumes originates in a conference session that took place at the 2018 International Council of Archaeozoology conference in Ankara, Turkey, entitled "Humans and Cattle: Interdisciplinary Perspectives to an Ancient Relationship." The aim of the session was to bring together zooarchaeologists and their colleagues from various other research...
Springer, 2019. — 298 p. Over the past 20 years there has been increased research traction in the anthropology of childhood. However, infancy, the pregnant body and motherhood continue to be marginalised. This book will focus on the mother-infant relationship and the variable constructions of this dyad across cultures, including conceptualisations of the pregnant body, the...
BAR Publishing, 2015. — 213 p. — (BAR International Series 2769). This book, based on the author's doctoral thesis, is focused on understanding social and economic aspects of the medieval rural world on the basis of the zooarchaeological analysis of seven different assemblages of animal remains located in the north and centre of the Iberian Peninsula. Multiple lines of analysis...
Academic Press, 1984. — 202 p. — (Studies in Archaeological Sciences). — ISBN: 0-12-297280-5. Quantitative Zooarchaeology: Topics in the Analysis of Archaeological Faunas presents the problems in the quantification of bones and teeth from archaeological and palaeontological sites. This book discusses the various kinds of statistical manipulations that are done with the...
Routledge, 2015. — 766 p. This book is one of a series of more than 20 volumes resulting from the World Archaeological Congress, September 1986, attempting to bring together not only archaeologists and anthropologists from many parts of the world, as well as academics from contingent disciplines, but also non-academics from a wide range of cultural backgrounds. This volume...
Springer New York, 2014. — 90 p. The goal of this monograph is to emphasize with empirical data the complexity of the relationship between climate change and violence. Bioarchaeology is the integration of human skeletal remains from ancient societies with the cultural and environmental context. Information on mortality, disease, diet and other factors provide important data to...
The American University in Cairo Press, 2016. — 376 p. The royal mummies in the Cairo Museum are an important source of information about the lives of the ancient Egyptians. The remains of these pharaohs and queens can inform us about their age at death and medical conditions from which they may have suffered, as well as the mummification process and objects placed within the...
The American University in Cairo Press, 2016. — 376 p. The royal mummies in the Cairo Museum are an important source of information about the lives of the ancient Egyptians. The remains of these pharaohs and queens can inform us about their age at death and medical conditions from which they may have suffered, as well as the mummification process and objects placed within the...
BAR Publishing, 2006. — 96 p. Understanding Paleolithic animal exploitation requires a multifaceted approach. Inferences may derive from research on paleoenvironments and taphonomy, the development of new methods for interpreting seasonality patterns, and ethnoarchaeological observations. A full understanding of Paleolithic economies also requires a multiregional perspective....
KWS Publishers, 2009. — 103 p. As the golden face of Tutankhamun was found garlanded with fresh flowers exquisitely preserved for 3,000 years, the plants of ancient Egypt are brought back to life in this botanical exploration of the Pharaoh's tomb. Usually ignored by grave robbers intent on gold, the baskets, fabrics, papyri, timber, unguent vases, and model granaries filled to...
Archaeopress Archaeology, 2017. — 210 p. — (Archaeopress Roman Archaeology 24). The human-animal relationship is one that has been pondered by scholars for ages. It has been used to define both what it means to be human and what it means to be animal. Birds, Beasts and Burials examines human-animal relationships as found in the mortuary record within the area of Verulamium that...
Cambridge University Press, 2005. — 388 p.
Archaeological discoveries of teeth provide remarkable information on humans, animals and the health, hygiene and diet of ancient communities. In this fully revised and updated edition of his seminal text Simon Hillson draws together a mass of material from archaeology, anthropology and related disciplines to provide a comprehensive...
Cambridge University Press, 1996. — 373 p. Teeth are among the best sources of evidence for both identification purposes and studies of demography, biological relationships, and health in ancient human communities. The anthropologist's specimen may be a cast that a dentist has taken from a living mouth, or actual teeth from an archaeological site or forensic case. This text...
The University of Chicago Press, 1941. — 72 p. — (Studies in Ancient Oriental Civilization 20). Since no animal remains whatever from ancient Mesopotamian sites have hitherto been subjected to scientific investigation, the present collection of such material from Tell Asmar, despite the not altogether favorable state of preservation of some of the pieces, assumes a very special...
University Alabama Press, 2018. — 328 р. A timely update on the state of bioarchaeological research, offering contributions to the archaeology, prehistory, and history of the southeastern United States. Building on the 1991 publication What Mean These Bones? Studies in Southeastern Bioarchaeology, this new edited collection from Shannon Chappell Hodge and Kristrina A. Shuler...
Archaeopress, 2018. — 256 p. — (Laboratoire d'archéologie préhistorique UNIGE). This volume concerns the bioanthropological analysis and the investigation of Second Iron Age (also known as the La Tène period: 470–25 BC) funerary practices in central Valais. More precisely, it deals with the study of two necropolises lately discovered in this mountainous region of southern...
BAR Publishing, 2022. — 168 S. — (BAR International Series 3090). Die archäologische Fundstätte Mont Lassois, nahe Vix in Burgund, befindet sich etwa 6 km nördlich von Châtillon-sur-Seine. Die Siedlung auf dem Berg und am Fuß gilt als Beispiel für einen sogenannten Fürstensitz der Hallstattzeit. Im Faunenmaterial aus dem Bereich Les Renards, am östlichen Fuß des Zentralortes,...
Sidestone Press, 2015. — 252 p. Although the bioarchaeology (study of biological remains in an archaeological context) of Egypt has been documented in a desultory way for many decades, it is only recently that it has become an inherent part of excavations in Egypt. This volume consists of a series of essays that explore how ancient plant, animal, and human remains should be...
New York: Arcade Publishing, 2002. — 280 p. — ISBN: 1-55970-611-2. In The Molecule Hunt , a leading expert at the forefront of bio-archaeology—the discipline that gave Michael Crichton the premise for Jurassic Park —explains how this pioneering science is rewriting human history and unlocking stories of the past that could never have been told before. A revolution is underway...
Revised and updated edition — Arcade Publishing, 2016. — 348 p. In Unlocking the Past , Martin Jones, a leading expert at the forefront of bioarchaeology - the discipline that gave Michael Crichton the premise for Jurassic Park - explains how this pioneering science is rewriting human history and unlocking stories of the past that could never have been told before. For the...
Revised and updated edition — Arcade Publishing, 2016. — 348 p. In Unlocking the Past , Martin Jones, a leading expert at the forefront of bioarchaeology - the discipline that gave Michael Crichton the premise for Jurassic Park - explains how this pioneering science is rewriting human history and unlocking stories of the past that could never have been told before. For the...
BAR Publishing, 2018. — 219 p. — (BAR International Series 2908). Excavations on the border between Greece (sector Promachon) and Bulgaria (sector Topolniča) in the basin of the river Strymonas, in Macedonia northern Greece, have revealed a ‘flat-extended’ settlement dating to the Late Neolithic. In addition to the rich array of material culture evidence, the excavation yielded...
Sidestone Press, 2018. — 381 p. La mort d’autrui est une épreuve que les communautés humaines ont dû apprendre à surmonter dès les premiers temps de l’Humanité. Ce travail est une exploration des différentes réponses proposées par l’homme face au problème de la perte de l’autre à travers les gestes effectués sur le corps mort, depuis les soins thanatopraxiques jusqu’aux...
University Press of Florida, 2017. — 510 p. Drawing upon wide-ranging studies of prehistoric human remains from Europe, northern Africa, Asia, and the Americas, this groundbreaking volume unites physical anthropologists, archaeologists, and economists to explore how social structure can be reflected in the human skeleton. Contributors identify many ways in which social,...
University of Florida Press, 2020. — 244 p. This volume highlights new directions in the study of social identities in past populations. Building on the field-defining research in Bioarchaeology and Identity in the Americas , contributors expand the scope of the subject regionally, theoretically, and methodologically. This collection moves beyond the previous focus on single...
Routledge, 2022. — 768 p. The Routledge Handbook of Archaeothanatology spans the gap between archaeology and biological anthropology, the field and laboratory, and between francophone and anglophone funerary archaeological approaches to the remains of the dead and the understanding of societies, past and present. Interest in archaeothanatology has grown considerably in recent...
Routledge, 2022. — 768 p. The Routledge Handbook of Archaeothanatology spans the gap between archaeology and biological anthropology, the field and laboratory, and between francophone and anglophone funerary archaeological approaches to the remains of the dead and the understanding of societies, past and present. Interest in archaeothanatology has grown considerably in recent...
Verlag des Römisch-Germanischen Zentralmuseums, 2010. — 313 S. — (Monographien des RGZM 87). Das Byzantinische Reich (395-1453 n.Chr.) ist seit Langem Gegenstand geisteswissenschaftlicher Untersuchungen. Vor allem die zahlreich vorliegenden Schriftquellen bildeten die Basis, um politische, wirtschaftliche und soziokulturelle Entwicklungen dieser Zeit zu rekonstruieren. Über...
University of Washington Press, 2017. — 392 p. The desire to alter and adorn the human body is universal. While specific forms of body decoration and the motivations for them vary according to region, culture, and era, all human societies have engaged in practices designed to enhance people's natural appearance. One of the most widespread types of body art, tattooing, appears on...
Routledge, 2021. — 236 p. The Bioarchaeology of Disaster examines two dozen disasters occurring around the world over the past 2000 years, ranging from natural and environmental disasters to human conflict and warfare, from epidemics to those of social marginalization - all from a bioarchaeological and forensic anthropological perspective. Each case study provides the social,...
Springer, 2016. — 218 p. This book explores how individuals, social groups, and entire populations are impacted by the tumultuous collapse of ancient states and empires. Through meticulous study of the bones of the dead and the molecules embedded therein, bioarchaeologists can reconstruct how the reverberations of traumatic social disasters permanently impact human bodies over...
Routledge, 2008. — 408 p. Resurrecting Pompeii provides an in-depth study of a unique site from antiquity with information about a population who all died from the same known cause within a short period of time. Pompeii has been continuously excavated and studied since 1748. Early scholars working in Pompeii and other sites associated with the AD 79 eruption of Mount Vesuvius were...
Routledge, 2008. — 408 p. Resurrecting Pompeii provides an in-depth study of a unique site from antiquity with information about a population who all died from the same known cause within a short period of time. Pompeii has been continuously excavated and studied since 1748. Early scholars working in Pompeii and other sites associated with the AD 79 eruption of Mount Vesuvius were...
Archaeopress, 2020. — 888 p. Distinguishing between the bones of sheep and goats is a notorious challenge in zooarchaeology. Several methods have been proposed to facilitate this task, largely based on macro-morphological traits. This approach, which is routinely adopted by zooarchaeologists, although still valuable, has also been shown to have limitations: morphological...
Cambridge: McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, 2018. — xii, 210 p. — ISBN: 978-1-902937-87-8. The essays in this volume honour a man whose research over the last four decades has exemplified the potential of archaeology, archaeological science and their cognate disciplines to address central questions about food and human nature. The volume comprises 17 thematic...
Springer, 2022. — 234 p. - Scrutinizes early animal ‘engine’ that could be traced back to the 2nd millennium BC in China - Tackles the question of what drives the development of Chinese early civilisations? - Presents a history of cattle training revealed from bone pathologies This book is the first to apply systematic palaeopathological, archaeological and historical...
Archaeopress Archaeology, 2015. — 268 p. — (Archaeopress Egyptology 9). This publication brings together personal analyses of sixty CT scans of ancient Egyptian human mummies collected from many museums throughout the UK and continental Europe. The effect is that of performing ‘virtual autopsies’ (‘virtopsies’) allowing techniques of mummification to be examined. The historical...
BAR Publishing, 2016. — 347 p. — (BAR International Series 2783). With contributions by M.C. Gupta, V.D. Misra, Greg C. Nelson, and G. Robbins Schug A fresh and innovative approach to the skeletal biology of prehistoric South Asians is presented in this volume. It is the first comprehensive bioarchaeological study of an early Holocene human skeletal series from the Gangetic...
Cambridge University Press, 1994. — 552 p. In recent years archaeologists and paleontologists have become increasingly interested in how and why vertebrate animal remains become, or do not become, fossils. Vertebrate Taphonomy introduces interested researchers to the wealth of analytical techniques developed by archaeologists and paleontologists to help them understand why...
Archaeopress Archaeology, 2017. — 338 p. The Cumans, a people that inhabited the steppe zone in the medieval period and actively shaped the fate of the region from the Black Sea to the Carpathian Basin, have been primarily known to history as nomadic, mounted warriors. Some of them arrived in the Hungarian Kingdom in the mid-thirteenth century as a group of refugees fleeing the...
Oxbow Books, 2020. — 392 p. This is the third book on material studies in this series on medieval Novgorod and its territory, and deals with a substantial body of animal bones that has been recovered over the last decade. The zooarchaeological evidence is discussed by the editor and a number of other British and Russian specialists looking at the remains of mammals, birds and...
Routledge, 2018. — 294 p. This book presents a new perspective on the social milieu of the Early and Middle Neolithic in Central Europe as viewed through relations between humans and animals, food acquisition and consumption, as well as refuse disposal practices. Based on animal bone assemblages from a wide range of sites from a period of over 2,000 years originating in both...
Oxbow Books, 2016. — 352 p. Seventeen papers demonstrate how zooarchaeologists engage with questions of identity through culinary references, livestock husbandry practices and land use. Contributions combine hitherto unpublished zooarchaeological data from regions straddling a wide geographic expanse between Greece in the West and India in the East and spanning a time range...
Routledge, 2013. — 800 p. Methodologies and legislative frameworks regarding the archaeological excavation, retrieval, analysis, curation and potential reburial of human skeletal remains differ throughout the world. As work forces have become increasingly mobile and international research collaborations are steadily increasing, the need for a more comprehensive understanding of...
Cambridge University Press, 2014. — 344 p. — ISBN: 978-1-107-04544-6. This collection of engaging case studies on violence and violent deaths reveals how violence is reconstructed from skeletal and contextual information. By sharing the complex methodologies for gleaning scientific data from human remains and the context they are found in, and complementary perspectives for...
University Press of Florida, 2012. — 304 p. Human violence is an inescapable aspect of our society and culture. As the archaeological record clearly shows, this has always been true. What is its origin? What role does it play in shaping our behavior? How do ritual acts and cultural sanctions make violence acceptable? These and other questions are addressed by the contributors...
Springer, 2013. — 362 p. Bioarchaeology is the analysis of human remains within an interpretative framework that includes contextual information. This comprehensive and much-needed manual provides both a starting point and a reference for archaeologists, bioarchaeologists and others working in this integrative field. The authors cover a range of bioarchaeological methods and...
BAR Publishing, 2016. — 361 p. — (BAR International Series 2810). This monograph develops a zooarchaeological and taphonomic study of four archaeological sites (Lezetxiki, Astigarragako Kobea, Labeko Koba and Ekain) and two paleontological caves (Muniziaga and Illobi) located in the eastern sector of the Cantabrian Corniche (Basque Country and Navarre). These sites are...
Oxbow Books, 2015. — 464 p. This two part volume brings together over 60 specialists to present 31 papers on the latest research into archaeozoology of the Near East. The papers are wide-ranging in terms of period and geographical coverage: from Palaeolithic rock shelter assemblages in Syria to Byzantine remains in Palestine and from the Caucasus to Cyprus. Papers are grouped...
Oxbow Books, 2015. — 464 p. This two part volume brings together over 60 specialists to present 31 papers on the latest research into archaeozoology of the Near East. The papers are wide-ranging in terms of period and geographical coverage: from Palaeolithic rock shelter assemblages in Syria to Byzantine remains in Palestine and from the Caucasus to Cyprus. Papers are grouped...
Routledge, 2002. — 209 p. Hunter-Gatherer Archaeobotany shows how archaeobotanical investigations can broaden our understanding of the much wider range of plants that have been of use to people in the recent and more distant past. The book compromises sixteen papers covering aspects of the archaeobotany of wild plants ranging across the northern hemisphere from Japan, across...
3rd Edition — Routledge, 2021. — 452 p. The Archaeology of Human Bones provides an up to date account of the analysis of human skeletal remains from archaeological sites, introducing students to the anatomy of bones and teeth and the nature of the burial record. Drawing from studies around the world, this book illustrates how the scientific study of human remains can shed light...
3rd Edition — Routledge, 2021. — 452 p. The Archaeology of Human Bones provides an up to date account of the analysis of human skeletal remains from archaeological sites, introducing students to the anatomy of bones and teeth and the nature of the burial record. Drawing from studies around the world, this book illustrates how the scientific study of human remains can shed light...
Archaeopress, 2019. — 218 p. There is a growing recognition within Anglo-Saxon archaeology that farming practices underwent momentous transformations in the Mid Saxon period, between the seventh and ninth centuries AD: transformations which underpinned the growth of the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms and, arguably, set the trajectory for English agricultural development for centuries to...
Springer, 2018. — 576 p. - Contributions/chapters cover famous archaeological sites or regions from the Nile Valley to the Nok Region in West Africa - Covers the current archaeobotanical research on the African continent - Gives insight into different archaeobotanical methods, from the analyses of macro-remains like seeds to micro-remains like pollen - Gives the reader an...
Springer, 2018. — 576 p. - Contributions/chapters cover famous archaeological sites or regions from the Nile Valley to the Nok Region in West Africa - Covers the current archaeobotanical research on the African continent - Gives insight into different archaeobotanical methods, from the analyses of macro-remains like seeds to micro-remains like pollen - Gives the reader an...
Springer, 2018. — 576 p. - Contributions/chapters cover famous archaeological sites or regions from the Nile Valley to the Nok Region in West Africa - Covers the current archaeobotanical research on the African continent - Gives insight into different archaeobotanical methods, from the analyses of macro-remains like seeds to micro-remains like pollen - Gives the reader an...
A.A. Ваlkеma, Swеts & Zeitlinger Publishers, Taylor & Francis, 2001, 378 pages, ISBN: 905809345X 9789058093455 9780415889452 This impeccably-researched volume skillfully reports and discusses advances in phytolith research, addressing in particular the use of phytoliths for deciphering fundamental issues in earth science and human history. Comprising thirty reviews and original...
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2010. — 286 p. — (University Museum Monograph 131; Gordion Special Studies 5). The archaeological site of Gordion is most famous as the home of the Phrygian king Midas and as the place where Alexander the Great cut the Gordian knot on his way to conquer Asia. Located in central Anatolia (present-day Turkey) near the confluence of the Porsuk and...
Oxford University Press, 2018. — 320 p. Donkeys carried Christ into Jerusalem while in Greek myth they transported Hephaistos up to Mount Olympos and Dionysos into battle against the Giants. They were probably the first animals that people ever rode, as well as the first used on a large-scale as beasts of burden. Associated with kingship and the gods in the ancient Near East,...
Oxford University Press, 2018. — 320 p. Donkeys carried Christ into Jerusalem while in Greek myth they transported Hephaistos up to Mount Olympos and Dionysos into battle against the Giants. They were probably the first animals that people ever rode, as well as the first used on a large-scale as beasts of burden. Associated with kingship and the gods in the ancient Near East,...
Oxford University Press, 2018. — 320 p. Donkeys carried Christ into Jerusalem while in Greek myth they transported Hephaistos up to Mount Olympos and Dionysos into battle against the Giants. They were probably the first animals that people ever rode, as well as the first used on a large-scale as beasts of burden. Associated with kingship and the gods in the ancient Near East,...
Oxford University Press, 2018. — 320 p. Donkeys carried Christ into Jerusalem while in Greek myth they transported Hephaistos up to Mount Olympos and Dionysos into battle against the Giants. They were probably the first animals that people ever rode, as well as the first used on a large-scale as beasts of burden. Associated with kingship and the gods in the ancient Near East,...
Oxford University Press, 2018. — 320 p. Donkeys carried Christ into Jerusalem while in Greek myth they transported Hephaistos up to Mount Olympos and Dionysos into battle against the Giants. They were probably the first animals that people ever rode, as well as the first used on a large-scale as beasts of burden. Associated with kingship and the gods in the ancient Near East,...
Oxford University Press, 2018. — 320 p. Donkeys carried Christ into Jerusalem while in Greek myth they transported Hephaistos up to Mount Olympos and Dionysos into battle against the Giants. They were probably the first animals that people ever rode, as well as the first used on a large-scale as beasts of burden. Associated with kingship and the gods in the ancient Near East,...
Springer, 2017. — 188 p. This volume offers an up-to-date and broad perspective of the archaeology of human-animal interactions through time in the Neotropical Biogeographic Region, ranging from southern North America to southern South America. The region has a rich and singular biotic history. The collection of works included in the volume –originally presented at the Second...
Springer, 2017. — 232 p. — (Vertebrate Paleobiology and Paleoanthropology) This book contributes to the current discussion on climate change by presenting selected studies on the ways in which past human groups responded to climatic and environmental change. In particular, the chapters show how these responses are seen in the animal remains that people left behind in their...
Archaeopress, 2019. — 378 p. El principal objetivo de este libro ha sido abrir una línea de investigación hasta ahora inédita en la ciudad de Jerez de la Frontera, en el sur de España, la cual es el estudio social a través de los restos arqueológicos y paleopatológicos de la población religiosa en la ciudad durante la Edad Moderna, y más concretamente los siglos XVI y XVII. En...
Książka Abstraktów / Abstract Book. — Redakcja / Editors: Leszek Gardeła & Kamil Kajkowski. — Bytów: Muzeum Zachodnio-Kaszubskie w Bytowie, 2012. — 48 s. — (Spotkania Interdyscyplinarne Motywy Przez Wieki / Interdisciplinary Meetings Motifs Through the Ages). Książka abstraktów referatów wygłoszonych na konferencji “Motyw głowy w perspektywie porównawczej” zorganizowanej w Muzeum...
Oxbow Books, 2021. — 328 p. This book investigates the complex relationship between funerary treatment and wider social dynamics through a contextual analysis of human skeletal remains and associated mortuary data from Voudeni, an important Mycenaean (1450–1050 BC) chamber tomb cemetery in Achaea, Greece. Voudeni is one of the most significant sites of Achaea, thoroughly...
University Press of Florida, 2017. — 464 p. European expansion into the New World fundamentally altered indigenous populations. The collision between East and West led to the most recent human adaptive transition that spread around the world. Paradoxically, these are some of the least scientifically understood processes of the human past. Representing a new generation of...
Kraków: Koło Naukowe Studentów Archeologii Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego, 2014. — 163 s. — ISBN: 978-83-939189-2-8. Publikacja po konferencji Koła Naukowego Studentów Archeologii UJ w Krakowie. Słowo wstępne od redakcji. Słowo wstępne dr Renaty Abłamowicz. Mikołaj Kostyrko. Budowanie relacji pomiędzy ludźmi a zwierzętami w perspektywie teorii rozszerzonego umysłu oraz prac Tima...
Academic Press, 2017. — 452 p. — ISBN: 978-0-12-804021-8. Osteoarchaeology: A Guide to the Macroscopic Study of Human Skeletal Remains covers the identification of bones and teeth, taphonomy, sex, ancestry assessment, age estimation, the analysis of biodistances, growth patterns and activity markers, and paleopathology. The book aims to familiarize the reader with the main...
Routledge, 2018. — 234 p. The modern manifestation of mummy studies began to take shape in the 1970s and has experienced significant growth during the last several decades, largely due to biomedical interest in soft tissue pathology. Although this points to a vibrant field, there are indications that we need to take stock of where it is today and how it may develop in the...
The History Press, 2004. — 224 p. Animal bones are one of the most abundant types of evidence found in archaeological sites dating from pre-historic times to the Middle Ages, and they can reveal a startling amount about the economy and way of life of people in the past. This is a fascinating introduction for anyone seeking to understand how these bones can shed light on our...
Oxbow Books, 2004. — 350 p. — (Proceedings of the 9th ICAZ Conference, Durham 2002). This book is the first in a series of volumes which form the published proceedings of the 9th meeting of the International Council of Archaeozoology (ICAZ), held in Durham in 2002. The 35 papers present a series of case studies from around the world. They stretch beyond the standard...
Springer International Publishing, 2014. — 264 p. This volume addresses the directions that studies of archaeological human remains have taken in a number of different countries, where attitudes range from widespread support to prohibition. Overlooked in many previous publications, this diversity in attitudes is examined through a variety of lenses, including academic origins,...
Springer International Publishing, 2018. — 164 p. This book expands on Archaeological Human Remains: Global Perspectives that was published in the Springer Briefs series in 2014 and which had a strong focus on post-colonial countries. In the current volume, the editors include papers that deal with non-Anglophone European traditions such as Portugal, Germany and France. In...
University of Michigan Press, 1990. — 216 p. — (Anthropological Papers of the Museum of Anthropology, University of Michigan, v. 83). Analyzes the bones of animals found at Arizona's 14th-century Grasshopper Pueblo in order to determine seasonality of procurement, the nature and underlying causes of hunter selectivity, and situational factors such as time constraints, task...
Peabody Museum Press, 2004. — 174 p. This classic work provides a guide to the identification of nonhuman animal bones. Olsen illustrates various diagnostic characteristics of rodents and dogs; jaguars and other members of the cat family; the domestic horse, pig, and goat; and other animals whose bones are commonly found in archaeological sites in the southeastern United States.
Springer, 2016. — xiii + 255 p. — (Bioarchaeology and Social Theory). — ISBN: 978-3-319-22553-1. This volume centers on the application of social theory to commingled remains with special focus on the cultural processes that create the assemblages as a way to better understand issues of meaning, social structure and interaction, and lived experience in the past. The importance...
BAR Publishing, 2016. — 271 p. — (BAR International Series 2781). This volume represents the first major bioarchaeological investigation of human health and behaviour in ancient northern Vietnam. Using dental and skeletal samples excavated by Vietnamese archaeologists from the 1960s through to 1990s, this study compares and contrasts the human condition in two key temporal...
Routledge, 2016. — 712 p. In recent years the bioarchaeology of Southeast Asia and the Pacific islands has seen enormous progress. This new and exciting research is synthesised, contextualised and expanded upon in The Routledge Handbook of Bioarchaeology in Southeast Asia and the Pacific Islands. The volume is divided into two broad sections, one dealing with mainland and...
Sidestone Press, 2016. — 262 p. Dans les Commentaires de la guerre des Gaules de César, le terme d’”oppidum” – qui désigne dans ces écrits toute forme d’agglomération fortifiée – est utilisé afin de décrire ces sites gaulois particuliers qui témoignent à la fois d’un fort élan de cohésion sociale et du développement d’une politique territoriale centralisée. D’un point de vue...
University Press of Florida, 2013. — 512 p. Bioarchaeology of East Asia integrates studies on migration, diet, and diverse aspects of health through the study of human skeletal collections in a region that developed varying forms of agriculture. East Asia’s complex population movements and cultural practices provide biological markers that allow for the testing of multiple...
Academic Press, 2016. — 517 p. — ISBN: 978-0-12-801966-5. Biological Distance Analysis: Forensic and Bioarchaeological Perspectives synthesizes research within the realm of biological distance analysis, highlighting current work within the field and discussing future directions. The book is divided into three main sections. The first section clearly outlines datasets and...
BAR Publishing, 2021. — 174 p. — (BAR International Series 3028). This volume collects 10 papers presented at the 13th ICAZ International conference comprising of research from wide-ranging geographical and chronological contexts. A variety of topics are discussed including Neanderthal behavioural patterns, animal economy and exploitation, and biodiversity and extinction or...
2nd revised and expanded edition — Thames & Hudson, 2015. — 248 p. In August 2012 a search began, and on February 4, 2013, a team from Leicester University delivered its verdict to a mesmerized press room and to the world: they had found the remains of Richard III, whose legacy was perhaps the most contested of all British monarchs. Prior to this major discovery, there had been...
Oxbow Books, 2011. — 240 p. The killing and burial of animals in ritualistic contexts is encountered across Europe from Prehistory through to the historical period. This volume presents the state of research across Europe to illustrate how comparable interpretative frameworks are used by archaeologists working with both prehistoric and historical societies. Key questions...
Eisenbrauns, 2012. — 352 p. What is sacrifice? How can we identify it in the archaeological record? And what does it tell us about the societies that practice it? Sacred Killing: The Archaeology of Sacrifice in the Ancient Near East investigates these and other questions through the evidence for human and animal sacrifice in the Near East from the Neolithic to the Hellenistic...
University Press of Florida, 2005. — 544 p. Exploring the long-standing question of the origins of syphilis, this book proposes a new understanding of the dynamic interactions of disease and culture in the New World. It brings together a complete picture of the diverse pathological evidence of a bacterial disease - treponematosis - manifest in the North American archaeological...
BAR Publishing, 2020. — 137 S. — (BAR International Series 2960). Dieses Buch präsentiert die archäozoologische Untersuchung von 9,000 bestimmbaren Funden aus der mittelneolithischen Kreisgrabenanlage Friebritz-Süd in Niederösterreich. Nach dem Tierknochenmaterial zu schließen, basierte dieSubsistenzwirtschaft des mittelneolithischen Dorfes von Friebritz in hohem Maße auf Jagd....
Editors: D.C.M. Raemaekers, K.E. Esser, R.C.G.M. Lauwerier and J.T. Zeiler. — Groningen: Barkhuis & University of Groningen Library, 2012. — 212 p. — (Groningen Archaeological Studies. Vol. 21). — ISBN 9789491431159. This volume comprises papers presented to Wietske Prummel on the occasion of her retirement from the Groningen Institute of Archaeology (University of Groningen)...
University of Florida Press, 2024. — 320 p. Applying social theory and incorporating non-Western perspectives in the interpretation of bioarchaeological research. This volume demonstrates how researchers in bioarchaeology and mortuary archaeology can work to better understand concepts of life and death in past societies of the Indigenous Americas. Through case studies that...
BAR Publishing, 2021. — 255 p. — (BAR International Series 3053). Este libro se centra en el estudio del comportamiento humano magdaleniense. Se han perseguido dos objetivos fundamentales. En primer lugar, la creación de una base de datos y de nuevos códigos alfanuméricos, aplicables a los estudios arqueozoológicos. En segundo lugar, la descripción de las actividades humanas de...
Oxbow Books, 2010. — 176 p. — ISBN: 978-1-84217-402-9. This volume grew out of an interdisciplinary discussion held in the context of the Leverhulme-funded project 'Changing Beliefs in the Human Body', through which the image of the body in pieces soon emerged as a potent site of attitudes about the body and associated practices in many periods. Archaeologists routinely...
Cambridge: McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, 2021. — 312 p. — ISBN: 978-1-913344-05-4 Animals have always been an integral part of human existence. In the ancient Near East, this is evident in the record of excavated assemblages of faunal remains, iconography and – for the later historical periods – texts. Animals have predominantly been examined as part of...
New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008. — 559 p.
This book serves as an introductory text for students interested in the identification and the analysis of animal remains from archaeological sites. The emphasis is on animals whose remains inform us about the relationship between humans and their natural and social environments, especially site-formation processes,...
Archaeopress Publishing, 2021. — 192 p. Bioarchaeology and Dietary Reconstruction across Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages in Tuscany, Central Italy presents the results of the first multidisciplinary bioarchaeological analysis to reconstruct living conditions in Tuscany between Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages. This was done through the examination of stress markers,...
Simon & Schuster, 2021. — 448 p. We often think of Britain springing from nowhere with the arrival of the Romans. But in Ancestors , pre-eminent archaeologist, broadcaster and academic Professor Alice Roberts explores what we can learn about the very earliest Britons, from burial sites and by using new technology to analyse ancient DNA. Told through seven fascinating burial...
Simon & Schuster, 2021. — 448 p. We often think of Britain springing from nowhere with the arrival of the Romans. But in Ancestors , pre-eminent archaeologist, broadcaster and academic Professor Alice Roberts explores what we can learn about the very earliest Britons, from burial sites and by using new technology to analyse ancient DNA. Told through seven fascinating burial...
Oxford University Press, 2019. — 366 p. In popular discourse, tropical forests are synonymous with 'nature' and 'wilderness'; battlegrounds between apparently pristine floral, faunal, and human communities, and the unrelenting industrial and urban powers of the modern world. It is rarely publicly understood that the extent of human adaptation to, and alteration of, tropical...
Archaeopress, 2022. — 72 p. Measurements of bones and teeth play an important role in zooarchaeology. They are useful in distinguishing between closely related species and between their wild and domestic forms. Measurements can tell us about size and shape, and for large samples it is sometimes possible to ascertain the sex ratio of the animals from which the bones are derived....
BAR Publishing, 2022. — 176 p. — (BAR British Series 673/Archaeology of Roman Britain 7). Dying Young explores childhood morbidity and mortality during the 1st to 5th century AD. The detailed osteological analysis of 953 non-adult (0 - 17 years) skeletons from 15 sites paints a rich picture of the lived realities of Romano-British children in towns and settlements of the...
Oxbow Books, 2017. — 296 p. Economic archaeology is the study of how past peoples exploited animals and plants, using as evidence the remains of those animals and plants. The animal side is usually termed zooarchaeology, the plant side archaeobotany. What distinguishes them from other studies of ancient animals and plants is that their ultimate aim is to find out about human...
Oxbow Books, 2017. — 296 p. Economic archaeology is the study of how past peoples exploited animals and plants, using as evidence the remains of those animals and plants. The animal side is usually termed zooarchaeology, the plant side archaeobotany. What distinguishes them from other studies of ancient animals and plants is that their ultimate aim is to find out about human...
Wiley-Blackwell, 2017. — 512 p. Skeletal Variation and Adaptation in Europeans: Upper Paleolithic to the Twentieth Century brings together for the first time the results of an unprecedented large-scale investigation of European skeletal remains. The study was conducted over ten years by an international research team, and includes more than 2,000 skeletons spanning most of the...
Cambridge University Press, 2012. — 548 pp. — ISBN: 978-0-521-76737-8. This is the first book to provide a systematic overview of social zooarchaeology, which takes a holistic view of human–animal relations in the past. Until recently, archaeological analysis of faunal evidence has primarily focused on the role of animals in the human diet and subsistence economy. This book,...
Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2012. — 548 pp. — ISBN: 978-0-521-76737-8. This is the first book to provide a systematic overview of social zooarchaeology, which takes a holistic view of human–animal relations in the past. Until recently, archaeological analysis of faunal evidence has primarily focused on the role of animals in the human diet and subsistence...
Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2012. — 548 pp. — ISBN: 978-0-521-76737-8. This is the first book to provide a systematic overview of social zooarchaeology, which takes a holistic view of human–animal relations in the past. Until recently, archaeological analysis of faunal evidence has primarily focused on the role of animals in the human diet and subsistence...
BAR Publishing, 2018. — 177 p. — (BAR International Series 2892). This book presents an archaeozoological analysis of the Early Medieval fortified settlement Sand, in Lower Austria. The work describes the exceptional socio-economic organisation of a settlement based on its animal remains, at the border between Slavic and German spheres of influence. The investigation sheds...
Springer, 2021. — 112 p. This book presents the state-of-the art in the analysis of animal movements in the past and its implications for human societies. It also addresses the importance of animal activity and mobility for understanding past human societies and past human-animal relationships through cases studies from different periods and areas. It is the first book to focus...
Springer, 2021. — 112 p. This book presents the state-of-the art in the analysis of animal movements in the past and its implications for human societies. It also addresses the importance of animal activity and mobility for understanding past human societies and past human-animal relationships through cases studies from different periods and areas. It is the first book to focus...
Routledge, 2014. — 166 p. Animals have been used to human advantage for thousands of years. Animal Husbandry in Ancient Israel presents an analysis of caprines and cattle husbandry in the Southern Levantine Bronze and Iron Age. The book employs key methodological approaches - comparative analysis, taphonomy, Geographic Information System spatial analysis, and ethnographic studies...
Routledge, 2016. — 152 p. Animals have been used to human advantage for thousands of years. Animal Husbandry in Ancient Israel presents an analysis of caprines and cattle husbandry in the Southern Levantine Bronze and Iron Age. The book employs key methodological approaches - comparative analysis, taphonomy, Geographic Information System spatial analysis, and ethnographic...
Augusta Raurica, 1988. — 248 S. — (Forschungen in Augst 9). Wie so oft bei archäologischen Publikationen ist auch die vorliegende Arbeit die verspätete Frucht eines um Jahre zurückliegenden Einsatzes. Dr. Elisabeth Schmid, Professorin für Ältere Urgeschichte, Gründerin und Leiterin des Labors für Urgeschichte der Universität Basel, hatte schon sehr früh den Aussagewert...
Springer, 2019. — 221 p. — (Bioarchaeology and Social Theory). — ISBN 978-3-030-02543-4. Day-to-day activities are important in the development of social identities, the establishment of social standing, and the communal understanding of societal rules. This perspective is broadly referred to as practice theory and relates to the power of an overarching social structure and the...
Oxbow Books, 2015. — 192 p. The twelve papers in this edited volume originated from the Neolithic Studies Group seminar held at the British Museum on 10th November 2003 on the subject of Animals in the Neolithic. This book includes most of the papers delivered and debated at the meeting and others contributed later. The aim of the book is to cover the range of current...
BAR Publishing, 1989. — 230 p. — (BAR British Series 199). During the past twenty years the investigation of archaeological animal bones has been common, yet comparatively little, apart from a survey by Armitage (1982), has concerned the methods of study of bones from urban sites. Consequently excavators of such sites have had few opportunities to learn how animal remains can...
Oxbow Books, 2023. — 256 p. Renowned archaeologist, Dale Serjeantson, tells the story of human engagement with birds from the end of the last Ice Age to around AD 1650. In this book, she integrates the study of archaeological bird remains with ethnography and the history of birds and avian biology. It identifies changing patterns of wetland, water bird and game species through...
Oxbow Books, 2023. — 256 p. Renowned archaeologist, Dale Serjeantson, tells the story of human engagement with birds from the end of the last Ice Age to around AD 1650. In this book, she integrates the study of archaeological bird remains with ethnography and the history of birds and avian biology. It identifies changing patterns of wetland, water bird and game species through...
Springer, 2020. — 281 p. — (Bioarchaeology and Social Theory). — ISBN: 978-3-030-32180-2. Pain is an evolutionary and adaptive mechanism to prevent harm to an individual. Beyond this, how it is defined, expressed, and borne is dictated culturally. Thus, the study of pain requires a holistic approach crossing cultures, disciplines, and time. This volume explores how and why...
Springer, 2002. - 391 p. (Interdisciplinary Contributions to Archaeology)
The multidisciplinary research program at Akrotiri Aetokremnos is important, in my op- ion, for three reasons: two empirical and one conceptual. Quite apart from the archaeology, work at the site is a major contribution to island biogeography, in that the Phanourios sample—certainly the best from Cyprus...
AltaMira Press, 2003. — 160 p. — (Archaeologist's Toolkit 5). Inclusion of botanical and zoological remains in archaeological analysis has dramatically increased since the advent of the New Archaeology. Yet most archaeologists have a limited knowledge of what archaeobiologists do and how their work can improve archaeological research and interpretation. In this handy volume,...
AltaMira Press, 2003. — 160 p. — (Archaeologist's Toolkit 5). Inclusion of botanical and zoological remains in archaeological analysis has dramatically increased since the advent of the New Archaeology. Yet most archaeologists have a limited knowledge of what archaeobiologists do and how their work can improve archaeological research and interpretation. In this handy volume,...
Cambridge University Press, 2006. — xvii+188 pp. — (Topics in Contemporary Archaeology). — ISBN: 978-0-521-81822-2. Bodies intrigue us. They promise windows into the past that other archaeological finds cannot by bringing us literally face to face with history. Yet ‘the body’ is also highly contested. Archaeological bodies are studied through two contrasting perspectives that...
Archaeopress, 2016. — 68 p. Although most of the animal remains recorded throughout the archaeological excavations consist usually of large assemblages of discarded and fragmented bones, it is possible to yield articulated animal skeletons in some cases. Most of them have been usually picked up from sacred and/or funerary contexts, but not all of them might fit necessarily in...
Proceedings of a seminar at the Field Museum of Natural History, organized by Jonathan Haas. — Fayetteville, Arkansas: Arkansas Archeological Survey, 1994. — 206 p. — (Arkansas Archeological survey research series; no. 44). — ISBN: 1-56349-075-7. For human remains that are likely to be repatriated or otherwise made unavailable for future research, an exhaustive and thorough...
Princes Risborough: Shire Publications, 1986. — 64 p. — (Shire Archaeology; 46). — ISBN: 0-85263-759-4. Archaeology is often thought of as being concerned with the material remains of previous groups of people; traditionally only their monuments and their artefacts have been studied. However, another aspect of archaeology is the study of the physical environment in which people...
University Press of Florida, 2013. — 328 p. — ISBN-13 9780813044637. — ISBN-10 0813044634. Mission Cemeteries, Mission Peoples offers clear, accessible explanations of complex methods for observing evolutionary effects in populations. Christopher Stojanowski's intimate knowledge of the historical, archaeological, and skeletal data illuminates the existing narrative of diet,...
Springer, 2018. — 253 p. — (Bioarchaeology and Social Theory). — ISBN 978-3-319-71113-3. This volume features bioarchaeological research that interrogates the human skeleton in concert with material culture, ethnographic data and archival research. This approach provides examples of how these intersections of inquiry can be used to consider the larger social and political...
Archaeopress, 2025. — 530 p. — (Winchester Studies 9.1). The People of Early Winchester traces the lives, health, and diseases of Winchester's inhabitants as seen in their skeletal remains from the mid-third century to the mid-sixteenth century, a period of over 1,300 years. Although the populations of other British urban areas, York and London in particular, have been studied...
Oxford University Press, 2013. — 872 p. The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology of Death and Burial reviews the current state of mortuary archaeology and its practice, highlighting its often contentious place in the modern socio-politics of archaeology. It contains forty-four chapters which focus on the history of the discipline and its current scientific techniques and methods....
Oxford University Press, 2013. — 872 p. The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology of Death and Burial reviews the current state of mortuary archaeology and its practice, highlighting its often contentious place in the modern socio-politics of archaeology. It contains forty-four chapters which focus on the history of the discipline and its current scientific techniques and methods....
Routledge, 2020. — 310 p. Bioarchaeology covers the history and general theory of the field plus the recovery and laboratory treatment of human remains. Bioarchaeology is the study of human remains in context from an archaeological and anthropological perspective. The book explores, through numerous case studies, how the ways a society deals with their dead can reveal a great...
BAR Publishing, 2007. — 189 p. Investigation of social and economic change has always been central to archaeology. As part of this, population movements have frequently been emphasised as instigators of transition. This is particularly the case in British archaeology where, as an island, migration episodes tend to be viewed as highly significant. The Norman Conquest was the...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2015. — 240 p. Zooarchaeology, the study of ancient animals, is a frequently side-lined subject in archaeology. This 'important and provocative' volume, now available in paperback, provides a crucial reversal of this bizarre situation - 'bizarre' because the archaeological record is composed largely of debris from human - animal relationships (be they in...
Proceedings of the Second International Conference of the Török Aurél Anthropological Association from Târgu Mureș (13 -15 October 2017). — Cluj-Napoca: Mega, 2018. — 143 p. — (Bibliotheca Musei Marisiensis. Seria archaeologica; XVII). — ISBN 978-606-020-056-7. Gyula L. Farkas, Zsolt Bereczki. The life and work of Török Aurél. William Berthon, Balázs Tihanyi, László Révész,...
Proceedings of the first International Conference of the Torok Aurel Anthropological Association from Târgu Mureş (13-15 November 2015). — Cluj-Napoca: Mega, 2016. — 144 p. — (Bibliotheca Musei Marisiensis. Seria archaeologica; XI). — ISBN 978-606-543-800-2. The International Conference organized in 13th-15th November 2015 by the 'Torok Aurel' Anthropological Association was...
Educohack press, 2024. — 606 p. Discovering Zooarchaeology: An Introduction offers a captivating entry into the world of zooarchaeology, the study of ancient animal remains in archaeological contexts. This book explores various aspects, including age estimation from mammal dentition, the use of bone and vertebrate bodies as uniformitarian materials, and the intricate...
Educohack press, 2024. — 606 p. Discovering Zooarchaeology: An Introduction offers a captivating entry into the world of zooarchaeology, the study of ancient animal remains in archaeological contexts. This book explores various aspects, including age estimation from mammal dentition, the use of bone and vertebrate bodies as uniformitarian materials, and the intricate...
BAR Publishing, 2020. — 234 p. — (BAR International Series 3008). The domestication of the wild boar and the emergence of the domestic pig are a fundamental aspect of the Neolithic and a key moment in human history. This book represents the most comprehensive zooarchaeological study to date of the origins and evolution of the domestication of the pig in the Italian peninsula,...
Cambridge University Press, 2019. — 404 p. Hunter-gatherer lifestyles defined the origins of modern humans and for tens of thousands of years were the only form of subsistence our species knew. This changed with the advent of food production, which occurred at different times throughout the world. The chapters in this volume explore the different ways that hunter-gatherer...
BAR Publishing, 2005. — 245 p. — (BAR British Series 392). This volume charts the changing human-animal relationship at one particular location, Dudley Castle, West Midlands, over several centuries. The temporal span considered (the 11th-18th centuries) is, arguably, one of the most formative in the evolving relationship between humans and animals. The period was one of...
University of Florida Press, 2019. — 314 p. Frontiers and territorial borders are places of contested power where societies collide, interact, and interconnect. Using bioanthropological case studies from around the world, this volume explores how people in the past created, maintained, or changed their identities while living on the edge between two or more different spheres of...
Routledge, 2022. — 770 p. This volume brings together a range of contributors with different and hybrid academic backgrounds to explore, through bioarchaeology, the past human experience in the territories that span Mesoamerica. This handbook provides systematic bioarchaeological coverage of skeletal research in the ancient Mesoamericas. It offers an integrated collection of...
Routledge, 2022. — 770 p. This volume brings together a range of contributors with different and hybrid academic backgrounds to explore, through bioarchaeology, the past human experience in the territories that span Mesoamerica. This handbook provides systematic bioarchaeological coverage of skeletal research in the ancient Mesoamericas. It offers an integrated collection of...
Springer, 2017. — 390 p. — (Bioarchaeology and Social Theory). — ISBN 978-3-319-39900-3. New Developments in the Bioarchaeology of Care evaluates, refines and expands existing concepts and practices in the developing field of bioarchaeological research into health-related care provision in the past. Evidence in human remains that indicates an individual survived with, or...
Springer, 2015. — 332 p. — (Bioarchaeology and Social Theory). — ISBN 978-3-319-18859-1. This book provides the first comprehensive introduction to, and explanation of, the theory and practice of the ‘bioarchaeology of care’, an original, fully theorised and contextualised case study-based approach designed to identify and interpret cases of care provision in prehistory. The...
Springer, 2020. — 298 p. — (Bioarchaeology and Social Theory). — ISBN: ISBN: 978-3-030-46439-4. This volume is a resource for bioarchaeologists interested in using a structural violence framework to better understand and contextualize the lived experiences of past populations. One of the most important elements of bioarchaeological research is the study of health disparities in...
Ohns Hopkins University Press, 2020. — 256 p. — ISBN: 978-1-421-43778-1. Children around the world know that to tell how old a tree is, you count its rings. Few people, however, know that research into tree rings has also made amazing contributions to our understanding of Earth's climate history and its influences on human civilization over the past 2,000 years. In her...
Sidestone Press, 2022. — 534 p Plants have constituted the basis of human subsistence. This volume focuses on plant food ingredients that were consumed by the members of past societies and on the ways these ingredients were transformed into food. The thirty chapters of this book unfold the story of culinary transformation of cereals, pulses as well as of a wide range of wild...
BAR Publishing, 2020. — 254 p. — (BAR International Series 2998/UCL Institute of Archaeology PhD Series 4). Medieval cetacean (whales, dolphins, and porpoises) exploitation has frequently been connected to various medieval societies, including the Basques, Norse, Normans, and Flemish. Primarily for the ninth to the twelfth centuries AD, it has been argued that the symbolic...
Archaeopress, 2023. — 256 p. Growing Up in the Cis-Baikal Region of Siberia, Russia analyses the dietary life histories of prehistoric hunter-gatherers from six cemeteries in the Lake Baikal region of Siberia, Russia. The overarching goal was to better understand how they lived by examining what they ate, how they utilized the landscape, and how this changed over time. Recent...
Drents Museum, 1994. — 130 s. De veenlijken in het Drents museum oefenen een opvallend grote aantrekkingskracht uit. Voor veel bezoekers is een rondgang door het museum pas echt compleet als ze de veenlijken gezien heb- ben. Anderen komen zelfs alleen maar voor de veenlijken. Maar, eenmaal aangekomen bij de vitrines waarin ze liggen, valt het menigeen toch zwaar zich voor te...
Sidestone Press, 2017. — 168 p. — (Urban Graveyard Proceedings 1). Het is een wijdverbreid idee dat (post-)middeleeuwse steden een sterfteoverschot hadden en zij slechts in leven konden blijven door de toestroom van migranten; een fenomeen dat bekend staat als het ‘urban graveyard’-effect. Over details valt te twisten, maar duidelijk is dat de stad en de dood dichter bij elkaar...
Sidestone Press, 2018. — 358 p. — (Urban Graveyard Proceedings 2). It is commonly believed that in medieval and post-medieval towns and cities death outnumbered births and that these urban centres could only survive through the influx of migrants; a concept which has come to be known as the urban graveyard effect. Whether this was indeed the case for all cities and towns is...
Sidestone Press, 2019. — 208 p. — (Urban Graveyard Proceedings 3). Osteoarchaeology is a rich field for reconstructing past lives in that it can provide details on sex, age-at-death, stature, and pathology in conjunction with the cultural, social, and economic aspects of the person’s environment and burial conditions. While osteoarchaeological research is common in the Low...
Springer, 2010. — 333 p. — ISBN: 978-1-4419-0934-3. In recent years, scholars have emphasized the need for more holistic subsistence analyses, and collaborative publications towards this endeavor have become more numerous in the literature. However, there are relatively few attempts to qualitatively integrate zooarchaeological (animal) and paleoethnobotanical (plant) data, and...
Harvard University, 1976. — 136 p. Introduction to the series Foreword Introductory statements What should be measured Measurements and measuring instruments The taking of measurements Measurement of the mammalian skeleton General Skull Postcranial skeleton Measurement of the bird skeleton General Postcranial skeleton References
BAR Publishing, 2018. — 217 p. — (BAR International Series 2902/Archaeology of East Asia 1). Haimenkou was an important location, with trade and cultural links connecting parts of modern Southeast Asia and northwestern China in ancient times. This book is based on an analysis of the faunal assemblage recovered from the Haimenkou site during the 2008 field season in Yunnan...
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2010. — 339 p. Siberia's Lake Baikal region is an archaeologically unique and emerging area of hunter-gatherer research, offering insights into the complexity, variability, and dynamics of long-term culture change. The exceptional quality of archaeological materials recovered there facilitates interdisciplinary studies whose relevance extends...
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2010. — 339 p. Siberia's Lake Baikal region is an archaeologically unique and emerging area of hunter-gatherer research, offering insights into the complexity, variability, and dynamics of long-term culture change. The exceptional quality of archaeological materials recovered there facilitates interdisciplinary studies whose relevance extends...
Routledge, 2019. — 200 p. First published 1992. This book aims to interpret the archeobotanical remains at the site of Rojdi, in northwest India, with reference to diet and environment and within a socio-economic framework. It discusses artifactual material which associates it with the "Harappan Cultural Tradition".
University Press of Florida, 2012. — 304 p. From Bronze Age Thailand to Viking Iceland, from an Egyptian oasis to a family farm in Canada, The Bioarchaeology of Individuals invites readers to unearth the daily lives of people throughout history. Covering a span of more than four thousand years of human history and focusing on individuals who lived between 3200 BC and the...
University of Florida Press, 2019. — 270 p. This volume brings together expert s in archaeology and bioarchaeology to examine continuity and change in ancient Arabian mortuary practices. While most previous investigations have been limited geographically to Egypt and the Levant, this volume focuses on the lesser-studied southeastern Arabian Peninsula, showing what death and...
BAR Publishing, 1996. — 110 p. — (BAR British Series 251). A review and analysis of the state of animal bone research. It includes a substantial inter-site review comparing the sites on which Wilson has worked in and around Oxfordshire: several Iron age settlements and a 15th century manor house. There is also a section on more large scale sampling in the towns of Oxford and...
BAR Publishing, 2016. — 209 p. — (BAR International Series 2815). The aurochs (Bos primigenius) is generally agreed to be the wild ancestor of domestic cattle (Bos taurus) and therefore an in-depth knowledge of this animal is key to research exploring human-cattle interactions, and the origins and spread of cattle domestication. Domestic cattle are smaller than their wild...
BAR Publishing, 2020. — 109 p. — (BAR International Series 2959/Archaeology of East Asia 2). Cattle (Bos taurus), domesticated from the extinct aurochs (Bos primigenius), has been an important animal to many human societies since prehistoric times. Cattle provides not only meat for subsistence, but also hide, blood, dung, milk and traction that contribute to the organization of...
BAR Publishing, 2015. — 281 p. — (BAR International Series 2766). Archaeobotanical data is used as the basis for the investigations of the subsistence economy at the Early Bronze Age settlement Küllüoba in west-central Anatolia. This work introduces new evidence from this EBA settlement located on a flat mound in the upper Sakarya Valley. For the investigation of crops and...
Київ: Видавець Олег Філюк, 2014. — 158 с. — ISBN 978-617-7122-37-0. Збірка містить результати новітніх досліджень українських антропологів з проблематики історичної антропології та біоархеології. Висвітлюються питання походження, антропологічного складу, генетичних зв’язків, палеодієти, палеодемографії, палеопатології та археозоології населення території України від епохи...
М.: Языки славянской культуры, 2004. — 265 с. — ISBN: 5-94457-157-8. Сборник включает статьи ведущих археозоологов и палеоэкологов России, исследования которых затрагивают различные аспекты изучения остеологических материалов из археологических памятников и естественных отложений.
Київ: Інститут археології НАН України, 2020. — 162 с. — (Історична антропологія та біоархеологія України. Випуск ІІ). — ISBN 978-617-7810-14-7 (загальний); ISBN 978-617-7810-15-4 (вип. ІІ). Збірник містить результати сучасних досліджень українських та зарубіжних вчених з проблематики історичної антропології та біоархеології. Висвітлено питання походження, антропологічного...
Київ: ІА НАН України, 2024. — 200 с. — (Історична антропологія та біоархеологія України, випуск ІV). Каталог репрезентує археозоологічні матеріали, які зберігаються у відділі біоархеології Інституту археології НАН України. Кісткові колекції за хронологією датуються від періоду мезоліту до XIX ст. Вони походять з різних регіонів України, зокрема з тих, на яких відбувалися бойові...
М.: Алетейа, 2004. — 208 с.: ил. — (Vita memoriae). В книге доктора исторических наук М.Б. Медниковой собрана информация о самых загадочных и древних операциях, производившихся в прошлом, — о трепанациях черепа. Автор прослеживает возникновение и географическое распространение трепанаций в Старом и Новом Свете; обсуждает причины операций — медицинские и ритуальные;...
М.: Институт археологии РАН, 2006. — 248 с. — (OPUS: Междисциплинарные исследования в археологии. Вып. 5.). — ISBN: 5-94375-051-7. Коллективная монография освещает вопросы географического и хронологического распространения традиции преднамеренной деформации головы в прошлом Евразии. Специально обсуждаются результаты изучения влияния обычая деформации на состояние здоровья....
М.: Институт археологии РАН, 2017. — 223 с. Эта книга задумывалась как издание, посвященное описанию качества жизни маленьких детей в очагах расселения земледельцев в эпоху неолита и раннего металла – на Кавказе, Балканах и на Ближнем Востоке. Помимо описания конкретных исследованных автором материалов, вниманию археологов и биоархеологов предлагается очерк, посвященный...
Издательство: Языки славянской культуры, 2007 г. — 216 с. (Серия: Studia naturalia) — ISBN 5-9551-0211-6
В отличие от других способов менять свою внешность – причесок или грима – татуировка остается навсегда. Неслучайно в глазах многих древних народов ее нанесение было делом нелегкомысленным. Когда-то жители Борнео верили, что их рисунки действуют как факелы, освещая путь...
М.: Научный мир, 2001 - 304 с.
Монография впервые в российской и зарубежной науке обобщает многочисленные палеоантропологические источники с территории Евразии, свидетельствующие о практике самых древних операций в истории человечества - трепанаций черепа. Основанная на комплексном, междисциплинарном подходе, эта работа сочетает многочисленные фактические сведения в области...
Москва: Языки славянской культуры, 2007. — 216 с. — (Studia naturalia). — ISBN 5-9551-0211-6. В отличие от других способов менять свою внешность - причесок или грима - татуировка остается навсегда. Неслучайно в глазах многих древних народов ее нанесение было делом нелегкомысленным. Когда-то жители Борнео верили, что их рисунки действуют как факелы, освещая путь умершим в...
М.: Языки славянской культуры, 2007. — 216 с.: ил. — (Studia naturalia). — ISBN: 5-9551-0211-6. В отличие от других способов менять свою внешность – причесок или грима – татуировка остается навсегда. Неслучайно в глазах многих древних народов ее нанесение было делом нелегкомысленным. Когда-то жители Борнео верили, что их рисунки действуют как факелы, освещая путь умершим в...
Научное издание. — Волгоград: Волгоградский филиал РАНХиГС, 2013. — 116 с. — ISBN: 978-5-7786-0509-1. Каталог содержит подробное описание краниологической серии со следами искусственной деформации научно-учебного кабинета-музея антропологии Волгоградского государственного университета полученная в результате раскопок могильников разных эпох (от энеолита до XIV–XV вв.)...
М.: Наука, 1984. — 177 с. В книге рассматриваются вопросы развития животноводческой деятельности населения от эпохи неолита до средневековья. По-новому представлен вопрос появления производящего хозяйства и бытования домашних животных по всему региону и в широких хронологических рамках.
М.: Наука, 1984. — 177 с. В книге рассматриваются вопросы развития животноводческой деятельности населения от эпохи неолита до средневековья. По-новому представлен вопрос появления производящего хозяйства и бытования домашних животных по всему региону и в широких хронологических рамках.
Казань, 2000. — 156 с. Подготовленный научный труд написан на фактическом материале, полученном при раскопках могильников, оставленных древними людьми, носителями различных археологических культур, населявших районы Среднего Поволжья и Предуралья с глубокой древности до раннего средневековья включительно. Основной особенностью исследованного в работе круга памятников является...
Монография. — Казань: Институт истории им. Ш. Марджани Академии наук Республики Татарстан, 2007. — 144 с. — (Археология евразийских степей. Выпуск 3). Монография посвящена истории развития животноводства в Среднем Поволжье и Приуралье на археозоологических материалах.
Учебно-методическое пособие для археологов. — Новосибирск: Новосибирский государственный университет, Институт археологии и этнографии СО РАН, 2010. — 48 с. В предлагаемом учебно-методическом пособии кратко рассмотрены основы современного палинологического (спорово-пыльцевого) анализа: дан обзор основных терминов палинологии, история метода, охарактеризованы объекты изучения,...
Наукове видання. — Київ: Інститут археології НАН України, 2014. — 298 с. — ISBN: 978-966-02-6889-0. Монографія присвячена антропологічному дослідженню населення Середнього Подніпров’я з метою етногенетичних реконструкцій. Автор розглядає на значному краніологічному матеріалі фізичний тип населення цього регіону 1—2 тис. н. е., простежує процес змін антропологічного складу,...
Київ: Інститут археології НАН України, 2024. — 138 с. — (Історична антропологія та біоархеологія України, випуск III). Видання є каталогом кремаційних матеріалів — окремого розділу біоархеологічних колекцій, які зберігаються у фондах Інституту археології НАН України. Колекції датуються широким хронологічним діапазоном — від енеоліту і до середньовіччя. Каталог колекцій містить...
М.: Наука, 1970. — 280 с. — (Материалы и исследования по археологии СССР № 161). Настоящая монография - последняя книга В.И. Цалкина, своего рода итог его многолетних исследований костных остатков из археологических раскопок. На основе собственных определений фауны из памятников неолита и энеолита на территории Молдавии, Украины и северного Кавказа и широко привлекая...
М.: Изд-во АН СССР, 1962. — 130 с. — (Материалы и исследования по археологии СССР; №107).
В. И. Цалкин. Животноводство и охота в лесной полосе Восточной Европы в раннем железном веке.
В. И. Цалкин. Фауна из археологических памятников средневековой Прибалтики.
Кишинев: Штиинца, 1986. — 90 с. Описываются находки следов культурных растений на рядке археологических объектов Молдавии, Украины и Крыма, датируемых различными историческими эпохами (неолит, энеолит, эпоха бронзы и раннего железа, античное и римское время). Дается количественное соотношение остатков видов, обсуждаются проблемы их происхождения, пути переселения из первичных...
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