The BIAD Standards: Recommendations for Archaeological Data Publication and Insights From the Big Interdisciplinary Archaeological Database by Reiter Samantha S., Staniuk Robert, Kolář Jan, Bulatović Jelena, Rose Helene Agerskov, Ryabogina Natalia E., Speciale Claudia, Schjerven Nicoline, Paulsson Bettina Schulz, Lee Victor Yan Kin, Canteri Elisabetta, Revill Alice, Dahlberg Fredrik, Sabatini Serena, Frei Karin M., Racimo Fernando, Ivanova-Bieg Maria, Traylor Wolfgang, Kate Emily J., Derenne Eve, Frank Lea, Woodbridge Jessie, Fyfe Ralph, Shennan Stephen, Kristiansen Kristian, Thomas Mark G., Timpson Adrian

“…These 12 recommendations were formulated by archaeological data experts who mined thousands of publications for different data types (including funerary practices, accelerator mass spectrometry dating, stable isotopes, zooarchaeology, archaeobotany and pathologies) during the initial construction of the Big Interdisciplinary Archaeological Database (BIAD). …”
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A review of Mid-Holocene hunter-gatherer occupation in the eastern Pampa-Patagonia transition of Argentina: Assessing cultural continuities and population dynamics by Gustavo Martínez, Lewis A. Owen, Gustavo Flensborg, Luciana Stoessel, Natalia Carden, Ana Paula Alcaráz, Florencia Santos Valero, Gustavo Adolfo Martínez

“…In doing so, we describe and discuss the geoarchaeological issues and the geomorphic evidence, radiocarbon and optically stimulated luminescence dating, lithics and raw materials provenience, zooarchaeology and taphonomy, subsistence and diet, bioarchaeology, and portable art. …”
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Of Kings and Horses: Two New Horse Skeletons from the Royal Cemetery at el-Kurru, Sudan

“… This article presents the zooarchaeological evidence from two horse burials at the royal cemetery of el-Kurru, Sudan. …”
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Animal Remains from Vagnari: Bones and Shells by Trentacoste, A

“…Contextualised with other zooarchaeological data from the region, zooarchaeological analysis at Vagnari offers new data and raises new questions on animal farming and the agricultural landscape of Puglia in Roman times. …”

Systems change: investigating climatic and environmental impacts on livestock production in lowland Italy between the Bronze Age and Late Antiquity (c. 1700 BC – AD 700) by Trentacoste, A, Nieto-Espinet, A, Guimarães Chiarelli, S, Valenzuela-Lamas, S

“…Animal management is shaped by its environmental and landscape context, but these factors are rarely investigated quantitatively in zooarchaeological studies. Here we aim to examine the relationship between trends in zooarchaeological data and environmental and climatic dynamics between the Middle Bronze Age and Late Antiquity in lowland northern Italy (Po–Friulian Plain). …”

Wild food in an urban environment: freshwater fish consumption at the archaic town of Forcello (northern Italy) by Russ, H, Trentacoste, A

“…As a result of taphonomic and recovery biases, zooarchaeological assemblages representing small wild taxa like fish and birds are rare. …”

Changes in the exploitation and consumption of seafood vs freshwater resources in medieval and early modern Estonia by Lembi Lõugas, Ülle Aguraiuja-Lätti

“…Compared to earlier periods, the remains of seals disappear almost completely from the zooarchaeological record, whereas those of oyster shells increase. …”
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Towards an agroecology of the Roman expansion: Republican agriculture and animal husbandry in context -- Supplemental Tables by Trentacoste, A, Lodwick, L

“…SuppTable02_Zooarch: Supplemental Table 2, Zooarchaeological remains - relative percentages of cattle, sheep/goat, and pigs by site. …”

Faunal remains data from Paleolithic-early Iron Age archaeological sites in the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau in China by Kaidi Ren, Lele Ren

“…Abstract According to published archaeological sources, zooarchaeological data collection on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau and its marginal and transitional areas is inadequate, and relevant datasets have not been published. …”
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Close Encounters of the Feathered Kind: Orpheus and the Birds by Zofia Halina Archibald

“…Literary, archaeological and zooarchaeological data from the 6th to 4th centuries BCE provide the means of uniting different types of evidence. …”
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A solution to the challenges of interdisciplinary aggregation and use of specimen-level trait data by Meghan A. Balk, John Deck, Kitty F. Emery, Ramona L. Walls, Dana Reuter, Raphael LaFrance, Joaquín Arroyo-Cabrales, Paul Barrett, Jessica Blois, Arianne Boileau, Laura Brenskelle, Nicole R. Cannarozzi, J. Alberto Cruz, Liliana M. Dávalos, Noé U. de la Sancha, Prasiddhi Gyawali, Maggie M. Hantak, Samantha Hopkins, Brooks Kohli, Jessica N. King, Michelle S. Koo, A. Michelle Lawing, Helena Machado, Samantha M. McCrane, Bryan McLean, Michèle E. Morgan, Suzanne Pilaar Birch, Denne Reed, Elizabeth J. Reitz, Neeka Sewnath, Nathan S. Upham, Amelia Villaseñor, Laurel Yohe, Edward B. Davis, Robert P. Guralnick

“…FuTRES already stores millions of trait measurements for paleobiological, zooarchaeological, and modern specimens, with a current focus on mammals. …”
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At the Feet of the Fortress: Analysis of Inka Period (ca. AD 1430-1536) Archaeofaunal Assemblages from Residential Unit 1 (RU1), Pucara de Tilcara (Jujuy, Argentina). by Carlos Raúl Belotti López de Medina, Lautaro López Geronazzo, Clarisa Otero

“…This paper reports the results of a zooarchaeological analysis conducted on the occupation layer of a compound structure (Residential Unit 1) of the Pucara de Tilcara archaeological site (Jujuy Province, northwestern Argentina). …”
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Mass animal sacrifice at casas del Turuñuelo (Guareña, Spain): A unique Tartessian (Iron Age) site in the southwest of the Iberian Peninsula. by Mª Pilar Iborra Eres, Silvia Albizuri, Mario Gutiérrez Rodríguez, Joaquín Jiménez Fragoso, Jaime Lira Garrido, María Martín Cuervo, Rafael M Martínez Sánchez, Rafael Martínez Valle, Ana Isabel Mayoral Calzada, Ariadna Nieto Espinet, Esther Rodríguez González, Silvia Valenzuela-Lamas, Sebastián Celestino Pérez

“…The findings of the zooarchaeological analyses clearly point to a selection of equid and cattle males. …”
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Climate-driven habitat shifts of high-ranked prey species structure Late Upper Paleolithic hunting by Peter M. Yaworsky, Shumon T. Hussain, Felix Riede

“…To disentangle the effects of climate and hunter-gatherer populations on animal prey species during the period, we synthesize disparate paleoclimate records, zooarchaeological data, and archaeological data using ecological methods and theory to test to what extent climate and anthropogenic impacts drove broad changes in human subsistence observed in the Late Upper Paleolithic zooarchaeological records. …”
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Small game hunting in montane rainforests: specialised capture and broad spectrum foraging in the Late Pleistocene to Holocene New Guinea Highlands by Gaffney, D, Summerhayes, GR, Luu, S, Menzies, J, Douglass, K, Spitzer, M, Bulmer, S

“…In this paper we assess zooarchaeological evidence from Yuku and Kiowa, two sites that span that Pleistocene to Holocene boundary in the New Guinea Highlands. …”

The Archaeology of Pig Domestication in Eurasia by Price, Max D, Hongo, Hitomi

“…This diversity complicates zooarchaeological detection of management techniques employed by humans in the early steps of domestication, and we stress the need for multiple lines of evidence. …”
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MiTiSegmenter: Software for high throughput segmentation and meshing of microCT data in microtiter plate arrays by Kendrick Connah, Buckley Michael, Charlotte Brassey

“…We present MiTiSegmenter as a new tool for the bulk archiving of valuable zooarchaeological and palaeontological remains. We foresee MiTiSegmenter as particularly useful when incorporated into workflows that ultimately require the destructive testing of specimens, including sampling for ancient DNA and proteomics. …”
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Towards configuring the neolithisation of Aegean Turkey by Çiler Çilingiroğlu, Canan Çakırlar

“…Focusing on the archaeological and zooarchaeological data from Ulucak and neighboring sites, the authors discuss the possible mechanisms of initial farmer-herder dispersals into the region. …”
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Learning by heart: cultural patterns in the faunal processing sequence during the middle pleistocene. by Ruth Blasco, Jordi Rosell, Manuel Domínguez-Rodrigo, Sergi Lozano, Ignasi Pastó, David Riba, Manuel Vaquero, Josep Fernández Peris, Juan Luis Arsuaga, José María Bermúdez de Castro, Eudald Carbonell

“…Archaeologically, such social processes might become observable by identifying repetitions in the record that result from the execution of standardised actions. From a zooarchaeological perspective, the processing and consumption of carcasses may be used to identify these types of phenomena at the sites. …”
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New Materials From Zinino-1 Ancient Village by Protsenko Anton S., Sataev Robert М.

“…The paper discusses the results of a study of ceramic and zooarchaeological material from the excavations carried out at the site. …”
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