Unravelling the resilience of the KGK VI population from the Gumelnița site (Romania) through stable isotopes by Ana García-Vázquez, Adrian Bălășescu, Gabriel Vasile, Mihaela Golea, Valentin Radu, Vasile Opriș, Theodor Ignat, Mihaela Culea, Cristina Covătaru, Gabriela Sava, Cătălin Lazăr

“…A multi-bioarchaeological investigation (archaeobotany, zooarchaeology, anthropology) was conducted on vegetal, animal, and human remains, alongside radiocarbon dating and stable isotope analyses (δ13C, δ15N) of humans (n = 33), mammals (n = 38), reptiles (n = 3), fishes (n = 8), freshwater mussels shells (n = 18), and plants (n = 24). …”
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Identification and tentative removal of collagen glue in Palaeolithic worked bone objects: implications for ZooMS and radiocarbon dating by L. G. van der Sluis, K. McGrath, F. Thil, S. Cersoy, J.-M. Pétillon, A. Zazzo

“…Palaeolithic bone objects from old excavations intended for radiocarbon dating were first analysed using ZooMS (Zooarchaeology by Mass Spectrometry) to identify the animal species, however peaks characteristic of both cattle and whale were discovered. …”
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MTaxi: A comparative tool for taxon identification of ultra low coverage ancient genomes [version 3; peer review: 2 approved] by Gözde Atağ, Damla Kaptan, Kıvılcım Başak Vural, Dilek Koptekin, Mustafa Özkan, Sevcan Doğramacı, Ekin Sağlıcan, Ardan Yılmaz, Mevlüt Köz, İnci Togan, Arda Söylev, Füsun Özer, Mehmet Somel

“…A major challenge in zooarchaeology is to morphologically distinguish closely related species’ remains, especially using small bone fragments. …”
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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. …”

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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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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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. …”

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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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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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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