Camelid husbandry in the Atacama Desert? A stable isotope study of camelid bone collagen and textiles from the Lluta and Camarones Valleys, northern Chile. by Paul Szpak, Daniela Valenzuela

“…Management of camelids in the coastal valleys of the Andes has generated much debate in recent years. Zooarchaeological and isotopic studies have demonstrated that in the coastal valleys of northern and southern Peru there were locally maintained camelid herds. …”
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Investigating the diet of Mesolithic groups in the Southern Alps: An attempt using stable carbon and nitrogen isotope analyses by Valentina Gazzoni, Gwenaëlle Goude, Giampaolo Dalmeri, Antonio Guerreschi, Elisabetta Mottes, Franco Nicolis, Fabrizio Antonioli, Federica Fontana

“…These results add to the information provided by zooarchaeological studies and reopen the debate on the role of secondary resources such as chamois, ibex, small mammals and fish, such as pike, in the diet of these mobile human societies. …”
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A landmark-based approach for assessing the reliability of mandibular tooth crowding as a marker of dog domestication by Ameen, C, Hulme-Beaman, A, Evin, Allowen, Germonpré, M, Britton, K, Cucchi, T, Larson, GJ, Dobney, K

“…<p>Tooth crowding is one of several criteria used to infer the process of domestication in the zooarchaeological record. It has been primarily used to support claims of early animal domestication, perhaps most contentiously in claims for the existence of so-called “proto-domestic” dogs as early as the Middle-Upper Palaeolithic. …”

Holocene cultural history of Red jungle fowl (Gallus gallus) and its domestic descendant in East Asia by Larson, G, Peters, J, Lebrasseur, O, Deng, H

“…This study combines Holocene palaeoclimate and archaeofaunal archives with new zooarchaeological insights alongside a discussion of methodological issues and cultural aspects in order to revisit the hypothesis of an early Holocene Gallus domestication and Neolithic poultry husbandry in Northern China. …”

The dik-diks of Guli Waabayo: late Pleistocene net-hunting and forager sociality in eastern Africa by Jones, MB

“…Unfortunately, a lack of radiocarbon dates and faunal data limited detailed zooarchaeological perspectives on changing hunting patterns at the site. …”

Abundance or stress? Faunal exploitation patterns and subsistence strategies: The case study of Brush Hut 1 at Ohalo II, a submerged 23,000-year-old camp in the Sea of Galilee, Isr... by Tikvah Steiner, Rebecca Biton, Dani Nadel, Florent Rivals, Rivka Rabinovich

“…We focused on a quantitative, qualitative and spatial investigation of the more than 20,000 faunal remains, combining traditional zooarchaeological methods with microwear analysis of teeth and Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy (FTIR) of burnt bones. …”
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Prehistoric pathways to Anthropocene adaptation: Evidence from the Red River Delta, Vietnam by Ryan J. Rabett, Risa Morimoto, Thorsten Kahlert, Christopher M. Stimpson, Shawn O’Donnell, Nguyen Thi Mai Huong, Bui Van Manh, Rachael Holmes, Phạm Sinh Khánh, Tran Tan Van, Fiona Coward

“…We proceed to demonstrate the applicability of palaeoenvironmental, zooarchaeological and historical evidence to management and the development of sustainable conservation strategies using Tràng An as a case study. …”
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À la recherche des premières occupations préhistoriques de l’Alaska dans la vallée de la Tanana (États-Unis) by Yan Axel Gómez coutouly, Brian T. Wygal, Kathryn E. Krasinski, Randolph M. Tedor

“…Therefore, sites in this region not only allow for complimentary zooarchaeological subsistence studies, but also for identifying organic technologies rarely seen in other late Pleistocene-early Holocene contexts in North America. …”
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High mitochondrial diversity of domesticated goats persisted among Bronze and Iron Age pastoralists in the Inner Asian Mountain Corridor. by Taylor R Hermes, Michael D Frachetti, Dmitriy Voyakin, Antonina S Yerlomaeva, Arman Z Beisenov, Paula N Doumani Dupuy, Dmitry V Papin, Giedre Motuzaite Matuzeviciute, Jamsranjav Bayarsaikhan, Jean-Luc Houle, Alexey A Tishkin, Almut Nebel, Ben Krause-Kyora, Cheryl A Makarewicz

“…While the geographic origins of domesticated goats (Capra hircus) in the Near East have been long-established in the zooarchaeological record and, more recently, further revealed in ancient genomes, the precise pathways by which goats spread across Asia during the early Bronze Age (ca. 3000 to 2500 cal BC) and later remain unclear. …”
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RESCATE ARQUEOLÓGICO EN EL PARQUE NACIONAL MONTE LEÓN (SANTA CRUZ, ARGENTINA) ARCHAEOLOGICAL RECOVERY IN MONTE LEÓN NATIONAL PARK (SANTA CRUZ, ARGENTINA) by MARÍA SOLEDAD CARACOTCHE, ISABEL CRUZ, SILVANA ESPINOSA, FLAVIA CARBALLO MARINA, JUAN BAUTISTA BELARDI

“…Las ocupaciones humanas registradas se habrían sucedido desde el Holoceno medio y muestran un fuerte componente tardío (últimos 2000 años AP)<br>The Monte León Archaeological Rescue Project resulted from the creation of Monte León National Park (Santa Cruz, Argentina) as a way to mitigate the impact caused by a variety of natural and anthropic processes. The artefact, zooarchaeological, and chronological information developed has offered new evidence for the discussion of past human use of space in the southern Atlantic coast. …”
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Prehistoric pathways to Anthropocene adaptation: Evidence from the Red River Delta, Vietnam. by Ryan J Rabett, Risa Morimoto, Thorsten Kahlert, Christopher M Stimpson, Shawn O'Donnell, Nguyen Thi Mai Huong, Bui Van Manh, Rachael Holmes, Phạm Sinh Khánh, Tran Tan Van, Fiona Coward

“…We proceed to demonstrate the applicability of palaeoenvironmental, zooarchaeological and historical evidence to management and the development of sustainable conservation strategies using Tràng An as a case study. …”
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Freshwater wetland–driven variation in sulfur isotope compositions: Implications for human paleodiet and ecological research by Eric J. Guiry, Eric J. Guiry, Trevor J. Orchard, Suzanne Needs-Howarth, Suzanne Needs-Howarth, Paul Szpak

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Agricultural development in Mid Saxon England by McKerracher, M

“…It considers settlement, zooarchaeological, and archaeobotanical evidence in detail, with a special emphasis on charred plant remains. …”

Diverse subsistence strategies related to the spatial heterogeneity of local environments in the Hengduan Mountain Region during the Bronze Age by Minxia Lu, Yongxiu Lu, Zhijian Yang, Nongbu Cili, Minmin Ma

“…By comparing published isotopic, archaeobotanical, and zooarchaeological data, as well as the altitude and precipitation at the archaeological sites, we propose that precipitation may have affected the diversity of human dietary strategies in the Bronze Age HMR. …”
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Human influences on animals from an ancient DNA perspective: case studies on Chinese domestic cats (felis catus), Chinese leopard cats (prionailurus bengalensis), fallow deer (dama... by Han, Y

“…We have conducted ancient genomic investigation of five nuclear and nine mitochondrial genomes of ancient domestic pigs from two archaeological sites in the Middle Reach of the Yellow River Basin spanning at least 3,000 years, and zooarchaeological analysis on 1,400 pieces faunal remains excavated from the Zheng-Han City (2,500 BP). …”

Early pastoral economies along the Ancient Silk Road: Biomolecular evidence from the Alay Valley, Kyrgyzstan. by William Taylor, Svetlana Shnaider, Aida Abdykanova, Antoine Fages, Frido Welker, Franziska Irmer, Andaine Seguin-Orlando, Naveed Khan, Katerina Douka, Ksenia Kolobova, Ludovic Orlando, Andrei Krivoshapkin, Nicole Boivin

“…Although recovered specimens were highly fragmented and mostly unidentifiable using traditional zooarchaeological methods, species identification via collagen mass fingerprinting (ZooMS) coupled with sex and first-generation hybrid identification through ancient DNA enabled preliminary characterization of the animal economy of Alay herders. …”
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Cereal processing at Early Neolithic Göbekli Tepe, southeastern Turkey. by Laura Dietrich, Julia Meister, Oliver Dietrich, Jens Notroff, Janika Kiep, Julia Heeb, André Beuger, Brigitta Schütt

“…We analyze the processing of cereals and its role at Early Neolithic Göbekli Tepe, southeastern Anatolia (10th / 9th millennium BC), a site that has aroused much debate in archaeological discourse. To date, only zooarchaeological evidence has been discussed in regard to the subsistence of its builders. …”
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Epipalaeolithic animal tending to Neolithic herding at Abu Hureyra, Syria (12,800-7,800 calBP): Deciphering dung spherulites. by Alexia Smith, Amy Oechsner, Peter Rowley-Conwy, Andrew M T Moore

“…Dung spherulites preserved within curated flotation samples from Epipalaeolithic (ca. 13,300-11,400 calBP) and Neolithic (ca. 10,600-7,800 calBP) occupations are examined here alongside archaeological, archaeobotanical, and zooarchaeological data to consider animal management, fuel selection, and various uses of dung. …”
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Subsistence, Environment, and Society in the Taihu Lake Area during the Neolithic Era from a Dietary Perspective by Yingying Wu, Can Wang, Zhaoyang Zhang, Yong Ge

“…Focusing on food resources, we systematically organised data from archaeobotanical and zooarchaeological research, human bone stable isotopic analyses, and fatty acid and proteome residue analyses on the Taihu Lake area’s Neolithic findings to explore the interrelationships between subsistence, the environment, and society through qualitative and quantitative analysis supported by paleoenvironmental and archaeological evidence. …”
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Epipalaeolithic animal tending to Neolithic herding at Abu Hureyra, Syria (12,800–7,800 calBP): Deciphering dung spherulites by Alexia Smith, Amy Oechsner, Peter Rowley-Conwy, Andrew M. T. Moore

“…Dung spherulites preserved within curated flotation samples from Epipalaeolithic (ca. 13,300–11,400 calBP) and Neolithic (ca. 10,600–7,800 calBP) occupations are examined here alongside archaeological, archaeobotanical, and zooarchaeological data to consider animal management, fuel selection, and various uses of dung. …”
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