Over the last few centuries, many cetacean species have witnessed dramatic global
declines due to industrial overharvesting and other anthropogenic influences, and thus are …

The distribution of the black rat (Rattus rattus) has been heavily influenced by its association
with humans. The dispersal history of this non-native commensal rodent across Europe …

The History of British Birds reviews our knowledge of avifaunal history over the last 15,000
years, setting it in its wider historical and European context. The authors, one an …

Formative Britain presents an account of the peoples occupying the island of Britain
between 400 and 1100 AD, whose ideas continue to set the political agenda today. Forty …

Figure 34. Detail of Godmanchester plan showing possible livestock-sorting arrangement 48
Figure 35. Distribution of sites with faunal assemblages with at least 300 cattle, sheep and …

An exploration of life in the early medieval West, using pigs as a lens to investigate
agriculture, ecology, economy, and philosophy In the early medieval West, from North Africa …

The principal aim of this work is to investigate whether protein sources in human diets in
early Anglo-Saxon (5th–7th century AD) England varied with geographic location, or with …

Objective To provide a comparative baseline for future studies of oral pathology in domestic
livestock and to better understand connections between lesion prevalence and biological …

Historical and archaeological data suggest that the Middle Saxon period (c. 650–850 ce) in
eastern England was an era of substantial social, political and economic change. This paper …

In this book an analysis of over 300 animal bone assemblages from English Saxon and
Scandinavian sites is presented. The data set is summarised in extensive tables for use as …