Middle Pleistocene protein sequences from the rhinoceros genus Stephanorhinus and the phylogeny of extant and extinct Middle/Late Pleistocene Rhinocerotidae by Frido Welker, Geoff M. Smith, Jarod M. Hutson, Lutz Kindler, Alejandro Garcia-Moreno, Aritza Villaluenga, Elaine Turner, Sabine Gaudzinski-Windheuser

“…Methods ZooMS screening (zooarchaeology by mass spectrometry) was performed on several Late and Middle Pleistocene specimens from the genus Stephanorhinus, subsequently followed by liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry (LC-MS/MS) to obtain ancient protein sequences from a Middle Pleistocene Stephanorhinus specimen. …”
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Trypanosoma (Euglenozoa: Kinetoplastea) infections in rodents, bats, and shrews along an elevation and disturbance gradient in Central Sulawesi, Indonesia by Ahmad Mursyid, Anang S. Achmadi, Wilson Novarino, Heru Handika, Herjuno Ari Nugroho, Syahfitri Anita, Amy Louise Adams, Karen M. C. Rowe, Kevin C. Rowe

“…In Contributions to Mammalogy and Zooarchaeology of Wallacea, ed. K. M. Helgen and R. K. …”

Of Kings and Horses: Two New Horse Skeletons from the Royal Cemetery at el-Kurru, Sudan by Claudia Näser, Giulia Mazzetti

“…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. …”

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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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. …”

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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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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Tafonomía de huesos de aves. Estado de la cuestión y perspectivasdesde el sur del Neotrópico by Isabel Cruz

“…Future research must include comparative studies and controlled observations to generate specific models that will help to understand taphonomic histories of zooarchaeological remains in the region.…”
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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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Spread of domestic animals across Neolithic western Anatolia: New stable isotope evidence from Uğurlu Höyük, the island of Gökçeada, Turkey. by Suzanne E Pilaar Birch, Levent Atici, Burçin Erdoğu

“…Integrating stable isotope and zooarchaeological datasets makes Uğurlu one of the first island sites to provide a comprehensive understanding of the geographic origin of Neolithic livestock populations and the timing of their spread from Anatolia into Europe during the process of Neolithization.…”
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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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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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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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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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