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Numerous studies have clearly demonstrated that skeletal characteristics vary by population. To date, there are no metric cranial criteria for South African whites. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to establish population specific... more
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      Forensic AnthropologyForensic ScienceMultidisciplinarySexual dimorphism
The feeding mechanisms of two labrid fishes (Cheilinus chlorurus and C. diugrammus: Labridae: Perciformes) are modeled using four-bar linkage theory from mechanical engineering. The actions of the feeding mechanisms are simulated by a... more
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      Mechanical EngineeringPhysiologyZoologyFunctional Morphology
The aim of this paper is to present the results of the biometrical analysis carried out on cattle, sheep/goat and pig measurements from a number of Spanish archaeological sites, dated between Roman and post-medieval times. The results... more
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      Islamic ArchaeologyZooarchaeologyEarly Medieval ArchaeologyMedieval Archaeology
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      Ancient HistoryArchaeologyPaleoanthropologyPrehistoric Archaeology
In this paper I use zooarchaeological data to investigate the relationship between food production strategies, particularly herding practices, and socioeconomic configurations in the ancient city of Jenn e-jeno (occupied ca. 250 BCE to... more
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      Isotopic AnalysisAfrican ArchaeologyOsteometry
Fish skeletal remains recovered from two archaeological sites dated in the Middle Holocene of Tierra del Fuego (Argentina) were analysed to describe habitat use patterns by hake in the past and predict changes in a warmer world.... more
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      ArchaeologyPrehistoric ArchaeologyZooarchaeologyFish Remains (Zooarchaeology)
Khonkho Wankane is a ceremonial center located in the southern Lake Titicaca Basin, Bolivia. During the Late Formative period (AD 1–500), its residents practiced agropastoral lifeways and participated in the rise of the state at Tiwanaku.... more
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      HuntingPastoralismOsteometryCaravanning
The change in cattle size during the late Iron Age and the Early Roman period is a widely known phenomenon. However, hardly any information is available about this change and its causes in the north-east of the Iberian Peninsula. In order... more
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      ZooarchaeologyIron Age Iberian Peninsula (Archaeology)Ancient DNA ResearchAnimal Husbandry
This project focuses on whether determination of physical differences among closely affiliated Native American populations inhabiting the southern Plateau is possible. The study includes 318 individuals and approximately 100 recorded... more
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      AnthropologyBioarchaeologySkeletal BiologyComparative Biology
The Roman conquest of Gaul is usually perceived as the trigger of morphological changes in livestock and, more widely, the origin of an important agropastoral evolution. However, recent studies suggest that the economic transition between... more
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      ArchaeologyGeometric MorphometricsArchaeozoologyIron Age Gaul (Archaeology)
Lama guanicoe (Müller, 1776) is one of the most important South American species for both biologists, ecologists and archaeologists; and body size of modern and prehistoric populations of guanaco is one of the parameters most researched.... more
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      Zooarchaeologyguanaco (Lama guanicoe)Osteometry
Very little data exist on shoulder heights of cattle from archaeological contexts in eastern, central and southern Africa, in no small part due to the virtual absence of complete long bones. We report on complete metapodia of cattle from... more
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      Indigenous StudiesZooarchaeologyEthnographyAfrican History
Analyses of archaeological faunal assemblages often require the use of varied quantitative techniques for reconstructing aspects of the harvested populations. This is particularly important with the increasing use of zooarchaeological... more
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      ArchaeologyZooarchaeologyEnvironmental ArchaeologyFish Remains (Zooarchaeology)
Although the economic importance of sheep husbandry in the Middle Ages, especially during the development of the major cloth industries, and the speculation of animals for wool, is recognized, until now the evolution of sheep forms on the... more
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      Morphological evolutionArchaeozoologyMiddle AgesSheep
In the course of a zooarchaeological survey of Holocene sites in southern Portugal, a substantial size increase of cattle bones was noted following the Christian reconquista of the 11th–13th centuries AD. A size increase in the course of... more
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      Evolutionary BiologyArchaeologyGeochemistryHumanities
The dhole (Cuon alpinus) has been documented on the Iberian Peninsula throughout the Middle and Upper Pleistocene in archaeological and palaeontological contexts. However, this is an uncommon species among the Iberian quaternary faunae as... more
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      PaleontologyZooarchaeologyPleistoceneLate Pleistocene to Early Holocene
Issues related to the identification of Late Pleistocene dogs from different sites in Eurasia, triggered by recent publications (see Germonpré et al., 2009, 2012; Ovodov et al., 2011), are discussed. The main focus is the problem of how... more
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      ArchaeologyGeochemistryArchaeological ScienceDomestication
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      ZoologyGrowthRed deerCervus elaphus
Prey-size selectivity by Steller sea lions (Eumetopias jubatus) is relevant for understanding the foraging behavior of this declining predator, but studies have been problematic because of the absence and erosion of otoliths usually used... more
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      Fish Remains (Zooarchaeology)Marine EcologyMarine MammalsForaging ecology
The major upper limb skeletal elements (scapulae, humeri, ulnae and radii) are frequently utilized for sex determination and stature estimation. Consequently, in forensic cases that involve commingled remains, it is crucial to reassociate... more
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      Forensic AnthropologyOsteologyCommingled Human RemainsOsteometry
Cette étude a pour but de tester et quantifier l’apport de la détermination du sexe des individus sur le terrain, notamment en contexte préventif, au travers des diagnoses sexuelles métrique (DSP) et morphologique, et de la diagnose... more
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      Biological AnthropologyArchaeological FieldworkArchaeological MethodologyArchaeothanatology
En poblaciones vivas, los camélidos silvestres sudamericanos son sexados a partir de la observación de su conducta social y reproductiva. Por lo general, tanto biólogos como arqueólogos asumen la ausencia de caracteres morfológicos que... more
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      guanaco (Lama guanicoe)OsteometryOsteometríaSouth American Camelids
De nombreuses séries ostéoanthropologiques ont été fouillées et étudiées par les membres de la SARL Archéosphère, société agréée pour la réalisation de fouilles archéologiques préventives de 2005 à 2015. Nous avons engagé sur chacune... more
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      Biological AnthropologyOsteometryArchéologie Préventive
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      ZooarchaeologyArchaeozoologySexual dimorphismCaribou
Localized studies of goat size variation in southern Africa suggest that goats from the last two millennia were smaller than their modern counterparts. Measurements from archaeological sites taken over three decades at the Transvaal... more
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      OsteometryGoatsCapra hiscus
Osteometric data from over 450 modern wild rabbits, most from Portugal, Spain and France, show an inverse correlation between their size and temperature of the environment in accordance with Bergmann's rule. Similar measurements taken on... more
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      ZooarchaeologyPrehistoryLate Pleistocene to Early HolocenePortugal
El objetivo de este trabajo es evaluar la variación morfológica temporal de los tamaños de elementos apendiculares del guanaco (Lama guanicoe) a partir del análisis cuantitativo de variables morfológicas de variación continua. Los huesos... more
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      guanaco (Lama guanicoe)Camelids zooarchaeologyOsteometryOsteometría
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      ArchaeologyAnthropologyZooarchaeologyOsteoarchaeology
Statistical regression provides a useful technique for the estimation of the original live length and weight of fish specimens found in archaeological contexts. This methodology was applied to the comparison of skeletal element size and... more
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      ArchaeologyPrehistoric ArchaeologyZooarchaeologyHuman-Animal Relations
Excavations during November 2013 in the Rising Star Cave, South Africa, yielded more than 1550 specimens of a new hominin, Homo naledi. Four bird bones were collected from the surface of the Dinaledi Chamber during the first phase of the... more
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      Human EvolutionZooarchaeologyArchaeozoologyTaphonomy
A partir de los patrones morfológicos de una población actual de Lama guanicoe se desarrolla una técnica que permite derivar la edad de muerte de guanacos juveniles de conjuntos fósiles en base a las dimensiones de los huesos largos no... more
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      Camelids zooarchaeologyOsteometryOsteometríaSouth American Camelids
Se sintetizan los análisis osteométricos realizados sobre un conjunto de especímenes óseos asignado a camélidos de dos sitios de la Precordillera de Mendoza: Agua de la Cueva y Los Hornillos. Ambos se ubican en ambientes de altura (>2.500... more
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      Pastoralism (Archaeology)OsteometrySouth American CamelidsCamélidos Sudamericanos
The present study deals with the craniometrical investigation carried on 4 dog crania originating from archaeological diggings dated from Bronze Age in Pecica-"Şanțul Mare"(Arad County) and Sântion (Bihor County). In order to determine... more
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      ArchaeologyPrehistoric ArchaeologyZooarchaeologyArchaeozoology
Análisis arqueofaunísticos realizados en la costa norte del Golfo San Matías (Pcia. de Río Negro, Argentina) detectaron la presencia de individuos inmaduros de otáridos en varias localidades arqueológicas. Dada las similitudes existentes... more
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      South American pinnipedsPinniped zooarchaeology and taphonomyPatagonia zooarchaeologyOsteometry
During archaeological excavations in 2012 human skeletal remains were recov-ered from two sites in Läänemaa: four 16th–17th centuries skeletons from Ehte Street in the town of Haapsalu and two Late Iron Age (12th–13th cc.) skeletons from... more
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      OsteometryBody WeightBody HeightSkeletal Remains
Forensic anthropologists frequently use measurements of the human skeleton to determine sex and ancestry. Since the establishment of the Daubert criteria of admissibility of scientific evidence to court, methodologies used by... more
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      Forensic AnthropologySex DeterminationOsteometry
En este trabajo se presentan los resultados del análisis zooarqueológico de una muestra procedente del sitio arqueológico Cóndor II, ubicado en el tramo superior de la Quebrada de Cóndor (departamento Humahuaca, Jujuy). La muestra... more
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      ZooarchaeologyOsteometry
This study aims to develop age-at-death standards for Valley of Mexico skeletal collections. Using 159 individuals, with a dental age-at-death between 0 to 15 years, we develop linear and quadratic inverse regression models of age-atdeath... more
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      ArchaeologyOsteologyOsteoarchaeologyHuman Osteology
Sheep and goats were among the first food animals to be domesticated. They have played an important role in peoples’ lives as providers of sustenance and clothing. These two related genera of bovids, classified within the tribe caprini,... more
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      ArchaeologyZooarchaeologyArchaeozoologyOsteoarchaeology
Descoperiri arheozoologice aparținând epocii dacice provenite din situl de la Carei-Bobald I (jud. Satu Mare) 1 Keywords: archaeozoology, dacian pit, animal bones, kitchen waste. Cuvinte cheie: arheozoologie, groapa dacică, oase de... more
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      ZooarchaeologyArchaeozoologyTaxonomyTaphonomy
Rekonstrukcja wymiarów i kształtu ciała pochowanej osoby nastręcza zazwyczaj wiele problemów.Nawet w przypadku, gdy badacz dysponuje kompletem zachowanego materiału kostnego, możliwe jest odtworzenie wymiarów i kształtów... more
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      Polish HistoryOsteometryGravesCrypts
This article describes morphological features of the postcranial skeleton of an Early Medieval group from the territory of North Ossetia. 83 individuals of both sexes were studied using classical osteometry methods. Analysis of the data... more
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      AdaptationPhysical AnthropologyNorth CaucasusMiddle Ages
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      OsteometryWolves
Minaspata, a site located in the Cuzco Valley of the south-central Peruvian Andes, contains evidence of occupation spanning continuously from the Early Horizon through the end of the Inca Empire. In 2013, several units were excavated in... more
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      Andean ArchaeologyDomesticationOsteometryWorked Bone Technology
Lama guanicoe (guanaco) is the best represented land mammal in continental archaeological hunter-gatherer sites during the Holocene in Patagonia and the Pampas of South America. The main objective of this paper is to develop a model to... more
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      Camelids zooarchaeologyOsteometryOsteometríaSouth American Camelids
La probable presencia de camélidos domésticos en el Holoceno tardío de las Sierras Centrales (Argentina) -y su probable significado económico-define problemas poco desarrollados por la arqueología regional. Estudios osteométricos previos,... more
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      ZooarchaeologyArchaeology of HuntingHoloceneSierras de Córdoba (Argentina)
Castration is a wide-ranging social phenomenon that has greatly impacted human history, but its modern, systematic study has been patchy, especially in the medico-anthropological fields. This project was designed to identify the changes... more
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      AnthropometryPalaeopathologyAnthropometry and physical anthropologyCastration
En archéologie, et notamment en contexte préventif, les contraintes de temps sont importantes et il faut trouver un équilibre entre rapidité d'intervention et sauvegarde des informations sur le terrain. Ainsi, l'enregistrement des données... more
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      Biological AnthropologyArchaeological FieldworkSex DeterminationOsteometry
The identification of human skeletal remains is one of the most important objectives of anthropologists working in medico-legal contexts. The establishment of identity from human bones is based on four main characteristics: age, sex,... more
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      Human Anatomy (Biology)Biological AnthropologyForensic AnthropologyForensic Science
The osteometry of Neotropical camelids has been paid increasing attention over the last years given its potential to segregate species, both wild and domestic. Hence more comparative modern standards are being put forward so as to range... more
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      Camelids zooarchaeologySouth AmericaOsteometryOsteometria