An endemic pathway to sheep and goat domestication at Aşıklı Höyük (Central Anatolia, Turkey)

MC Stiner, ND Munro, H Buitenhuis… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - National Acad Sciences
Sheep and goats (caprines) were domesticated in Southwest Asia in the early Holocene, but
how and in how many places remain open questions. This study investigates the initial …

The Sheep Project (1): determining skeletal growth, timing of epiphyseal fusion and morphometric variation in unimproved Shetland sheep of known age, sex …

PRW Popkin, P Baker, F Worley, S Payne… - Journal of Archaeological …, 2012 - Elsevier
The Sheep Project was designed to investigate the effects of castration, breeding age and
nutritional plane on bone growth, epiphyseal fusion, tooth eruption and tooth wear in sheep …

[HTML][HTML] Refining the methods for identifying draught cattle in the archaeological record: Lessons from the semi-feral herd at Chillingham Park

R Thomas, L Bellis, R Gordon, M Holmes… - International Journal of …, 2021 - Elsevier
Objective This study--> provides a baseline of pathological and sub-pathological changes in
the lower-limb bones of a semi-feral herd of domestic cattle. The purpose is to refine an …

“So bigge as bigge may be”: tracking size and shape change in domestic livestock in London (AD 1220–1900)

R Thomas, M Holmes, J Morris - Journal of Archaeological Science, 2013 - Elsevier
This study presents the analysis of 7966 individual cattle, sheep, pig and domestic hen bone
measurements from 105 sites excavated in London dating to the period AD 1220–1900 …

Bone pathologies of modern non-draft cattle (Bos Taurus) in the context of grazing systems and environmental influences in the South Urals, Russia

A Rassadnikov - International Journal of Paleopathology, 2021 - Elsevier
Objective To assesses the patterns of age-related changes and bone pathologies in modern
non-draft cattle to assist archaezooological analysis of draft cattle remains from antiquity …

Early iron age dor (Israel): a faunal perspective

N Raban-Gerstel, I Zohar, G Bar-Oz… - Bulletin of the …, 2008 - journals.uchicago.edu
This paper presents a study of archaeozoological remains from an early Iron Age (Iron I-IIA)
sequence at the" Sea People"/Phoenician site of Tel Dor, on Israel's Carmel coast (Area D2) …

Regional pastoral practice in central and southeastern Kazakhstan in the Final Bronze Age (1300–900 BCE)

A Haruda - Archaeological Research in Asia, 2018 - Elsevier
Detailed zooarcheological analysis of three settlements dating to the Final Bronze Age (c.
1300–900 BCE) in central and southeastern Kazakhstan revealed the influence of cultural …

[書籍][B] Beyond Hunting and Herding: Humans, animals, and the political economy of the Vinča period

DC Orton - 2008 - academia.edu
This thesis is concerned with the role of animals within Neolithic society, specifically in the
later Neolithic/Copper Age Vinča culture of the central Balkans. There are two central …

Zooarchaeology: methods of collecting age and sex data

D Ruscillo - Encyclopedia of Global Archaeology, 2020 - Springer
Zhoukoudian is located in the Fangshan District, 55 km southwest of downtown Bei**g. A
hill called Longgushan “Dragon Bone Hill” was known by local farmers in the early twentieth …

A label-free quantification method for assessing sex from modern and ancient bovine tooth enamel

P Kotli, D Morgenstern, F Bocquentin, H Khalaily… - Scientific Reports, 2024 - nature.com
Identification of the sex of modern, fossil and archaeological animal remains offers many
insights into their demography, mortality profiles and domestication pathways. However, due …