Economic and socio-cultural consequences of changing political rule on human and faunal diets in medieval Valencia (c. fifth–fifteenth century AD) as evidenced by …

MM Alexander, A Gutiérrez, AR Millard… - Archaeological and …, 2019 - Springer
This paper explores the impact of changing religious political rule on subsistence within a
single city through time using stable isotope analysis of human and animal bone collagen …

Beyond faith: Biomolecular evidence for changing urban economies in multi‐faith medieval Portugal

A Toso, S Schifano, C Oxborough… - American Journal of …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Objectives During the Middle Ages, Portugal witnessed unprecedented
socioeconomic and religious changes under transitioning religious political rule. The …

[HTML][HTML] Animal economies and Islamic conversion in eastern Ethiopia: zooarchaeological analyses from Harlaa, Harar and Ganda Harla

JS Gaastra, T Insoll - Journal of African Archaeology, 2020 - brill.com
Excavations at three urban sites, Harlaa, Harar, and Ganda Harla, in eastern Ethiopia have
recovered substantial assemblages of faunal remains. These, the first to be analysed from …

Construction of chrono-stratigraphic samples (CSS) as a support for taxa quantification in zooarchaeology: an example of the use of this new unit of analysis in the …

C Mureau - Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences, 2023 - Springer
The quantification of taxa is a major exercise in zooarchaeology. Specialists have multiplied
the methods of counting animal remains, but the choice of the stratigraphic unit for these …

The zooarchaeological identification of a 'Morisco'community after the Christian conquest of Granada (Spain, early 16th century): sociocultural continuities and …

M García-García, G García-Contreras… - Archaeological and …, 2021 - Springer
This article presents the results of the zooarchaeological analysis of an assemblage dating
to the second quarter of the 16th century that was discovered on the current university …

Two cases of cystic echinococcosis reported from al‐Andalus cemeteries (southern Iberia): Insights into zoonotic diseases in Islamic Medieval Europe

R López‐Gijón, S Duras… - International Journal …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The identification of a calcified hydatid cyst in the bioarcheological record is key to the
diagnosis of cystic echinococcosis (ie, hydatid disease), a parasitic infection caused by the …

Pork consumption, gastro-politics and social Islamisation in early al-Andalus (eighth to tenth centuries)

M García García - Journal of Medieval Iberian Studies, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
This paper presents a novel perspective concerning the emergence of al-Andalus based on
the study of food. This is a field of human behaviour that is highly informative in socio …

Bioarchaeological Results from the House 1 at Albalat (Romangordo, Extremadura, Spain): Agriculture, Livestock and Environment at the Margin of al-Andalus.

J Ros, JAG Garcia, MR Alonso… - Journal of Islamic …, 2018 - search.ebscohost.com
Abstract The multidisciplinary Albalat Project launched in 2009 aims to document a small
fortified Islamic establishment, mentioned by textual sources as early as the second half of …

Neolithic faunal resources in the center of the Iberian Peninsula. New evidence from El Mar (Meco, Spain)

V Estaca-Gómez, SJ Tardáguila-Giacomozzi… - Journal of …, 2023 - Elsevier
The zooarchaeological evidence available for the Neolithic in the Iberian Peninsula is
mostly condensed in the Mediterranean area, from Catalonia to Cádiz, and the Cantabrian …

La dimensión alimentaria de la emergencia de al-Andalus (siglos VIII-X): perspectivas históricas y zooarqueológicas sobre el proceso de islamización social

M Garcia-Garcia - 2023 - rua.ua.es
La alimentación representa un ámbito de la experiencia humana que históricamente ha
desempeñado un papel trascendental en la conformación, el mantenimiento y la …