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Monday 25 January 2010, by Carine Carpentier
From 1974 to the present, the Institute of Classical Archaeology at the University of Texas at Austin has carried out archaeological excavations in the ancient territory (chora) of Metaponto, now located in the modern province of Basilicata on the southern coast of Italy. This wide-ranging investigation, which covers a number of sites and a time period ranging from prehistory to the Roman Empire, has unearthed a wealth of new information about the ancient rural economy in southern Italy. (...)
Wednesday 27 May 2009, by Carine Carpentier
Summary
When a bone of unknown origin is found at a location, forensic implications arise immediately. Is this bone human, and if so, is it evidence of a murder? Human and Non-Human Bone Identification: A Color Atlas presents a comprehensive handbook of photographs and other information essential for law enforcement and forensic anthropologists when examining skeletal remains and determining species and body parts.
Presenting over 3000 color photographs, this atlas is a practical (...)
Monday 3 December 2007, by J.H. Yvinec
Description
The first multi-faceted work on the pig in history.
Draws on the latest research in archaeology, zoology, anthropology, and biology, with findings that are also important for cultural history.
Introduction draws out common themes and key issues.
Generously illustrated with more than 50 original photographs and numerous line-drawings.
Pigs are one of the most iconic but also paradoxical animals ever to have developed a relationship with humans. This relationship has been (...)
Tuesday 22 May 2007, by J.H. Yvinec
You can find the list of chapters in the PDF attached . List of chaptersand Chapter 1 can now be accessed on the website of Oxford University Press at the following adress : http://fds.oup.com/www.oup.co.uk/pd....
Alternatively, it can be found by following links from the University of Southampton web site.
There is also a review of the book which summarises, by Aleks Pluskowski, what is in it at: (...)
Monday 21 May 2007, by J.H. Yvinec
The web-based magazine "Actualidades Arquelogicas" has published an issue entirely dedicated to Archaeozoology. This can be found
here
PROYECTOS: Olor a tierra...
“La explotación de recursos marinos en Oxtankah, Quintana Roo”
Por Emiliano M. Tisoc
"Los colobríes ofrendados a Huitzilipochtli en el Templo Mayor de Tenochtitlan"
Por Norma Valentín Maldonado y María de Lourdes Gallardo Parrodi
SUBSECCIÓN: DIARIO DE CAMPO
“Hay un hueso en mi sopa. Aprovechamiento de (...)
Wednesday 27 September 2006, by Foss Leach
New Zealand was first discovered less than 1,000 years ago by people from Eastern Polynesia, who were ancestors of the present New Zealand Māori. They were the descendants of people with a long maritime tradition, who took their first steps into the Oceanic world east of New Guinea some 35,000 years ago. By the time these people had settled the far flung islands of the Pacific and reached New Zealand they possessed advanced fishing technology and deep knowledge of fish habits and (...)
Tuesday 6 June 2006, by Umberto Albarella
We are very pleased to announce the publication by Oxbow Books (http://www.oxbowbooks.com/) of another set of two volumes of the ICAZ 2002 proceedings. Here are the details:
Integrating Zooarchaeology edited by Mark Maltby http://www.oxbowbooks.com/bookinfo.... Recent advances in ageing and sexing animal bones edited by Deborah Ruscillo http://www.oxbowbooks.com/bookinfo....
On the Oxbow catalogue you can also find details of the eleven volumes previously published. There is one (...)
Wednesday 29 March 2006, by J.H. Yvinec
All the PDF are free available here, © The Swedish Institute in Rome and individual authors (ISSN 1824-7725).
From the very beginning of civilization domestic animals constituted an undividable part in the life of human beings. Since then people have lived with animals in their daily life, for work and production, for transport of goods and men in war and peace, for ceremonial processions, as pets and faithful companions, and as symbols and metaphors for ideological concepts.
The aim of (...)
Monday 19 December 2005, by J.H. Yvinec, Carine Carpentier
The importance of the wool industry to England during the Middle Ages cannot be over-emphasised. At this time England had a strong reputation for fine wool, something which attracted the attention of foreign traders and the government who saw the wool industry as a great source of revenue through taxation.
What appears at first glance to be a book purely about local social history in sheep farming and wool production, actually goes much further as Derek Hurst explores the implications of (...)
Thursday 27 October 2005, by J.H. Yvinec
Zbigniew Bochenski say us that "Acta Zoologica Cracoviensia" is now divided in two parts : vertebrates and invertebrates, and now online. You can see at this adresse http://www.ingentaconnect.com/conte..., or here Institute of Systematics and Evolution of Animals . You can find the volume 46 2002 with publication of the Bird Working Group conférence which was hold in Cracovie.
Acta zoologica cracoviensia is an international quarterly journal that includes two series: A - Vertebrata, and B (...)
Wednesday 19 October 2005, by J.H. Yvinec
MARIN ARROYO, A.B. (2004). “Análisis arqueozoológico, tafonómico y de distribución espacial de la fauna de mamíferos de la Cueva de La Fragua (Santoña, Cantabria)”. Ediciones TGD, Santander. ISBN 84-933792-3-9.
That the book is now available at the publication service (TGD) of the University of Cantabria (Spain).
This work is an approach to the hunter-gatherer groups who inhabitated the Bajo Ason Basin (Cantabria, Spain) during the transition Pleistocene/Holocene from the (...)
Wednesday 19 October 2005, by J.H. Yvinec
I would like to announce that our monograph on the fauna from Late Neolithic-Early Bronze Age site at Megalo Nisi Galanis, in Greece, has finally been published. The information is as follows:
Greenfield, Haskel J.and Fowler, Kent D. 2005 The Secondary Products Revolution in Macedonia: The Zooarchaeological Remains from Megalo Nisi Galanis, a Late Neolithic-Early Bronze Age Site in Greek Macedonia, John and Erica Hedges, Oxford.(= British Archaeological Reports, International Series (...)
Monday 30 May 2005, by J.H. Yvinec
We are pleased to announce the publication of Canadian Zooarchaeology, Number 22, featuring the article “Bear Hunting at the Pleistocene/Holocene Transition on the Northern Northwest Coast of North America” by McLaren et al. (abstract below). For subscription information, please see
http://www.nature.ca/prodserv/journals/canzooarch_e.cfm
Abstract
Recent discoveries on the northern Northwest Coast of North America provide evidence of bear hunting dating to the (...)
Friday 18 March 2005, by J.H. Yvinec
Peter Popkin "Caprine Butchery and Bone Modification Templates.
Article Summary
Widely accepted zooarchaeological procedure for recording butchery marks and other types of bone modification involves two processes: Drawing the bone showing the exact location and orientation of the modification and recording all of the information about the bone and its modification into an electronic database. No recording templates have ever been published, however, resulting in individual (...)
Thursday 27 January 2005, by Sandrine Grouard, Jean-Denis Vigne
The poster can be download at the end of the article.It was prepare for the Conférence Internationale Biodiversité : science et gouvernance, Paris 24 - 28 janvier 2001.
S. Grouard et J.-D. Vigne; MNHN USM 303 - CNRS UMR 5197; "Archéozoologie", Dept E.G.B.; CP 56, 75231 Paris; grouard@mnhn.fr et vigne@mnhn.fr.
The poster to download
Archaeozoological studies bring information on the history of the vertebrate faunas during the last 10,000 years, and on their relationships with human (...)
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