Livestock dung is a valuable material for reconstructing human and animal inter-relations
and activity within open areas and built environments. This paper examines the identification …

Dung, macroscopically recognisable as such or not, can more commonly be found in
archaeological contexts than is perhaps realised. Up to now, identification of dung to the …

Agricultural origins and dispersals are subjects of fundamental importance to archaeology
as well as many other scholarly disciplines. These investigations are world-wide in scope …

Abstract Tell Seker al-Aheimar, located in the Upper Khabur, northeastern Syria, is an early
Neolithic settlement that chrono-culturally spans from the Pre-Pottery Neolithic B (PPNB) to …

Despite the important role of livestock farming amongst Iron Age communities living in
mountain regions, there is little information about livestock management, and particularly …

This study examines the contribution of ethnoarchaeological and experimental research to
interdisciplinary approaches on the identification and taphonomy of livestock dung …

Livestock dung is a valuable material in many rural communities worldwide. In our research
area, the site of Althiburos and its surroundings, now el Médéïna, in northwestern Tunisia …

Iron Age combustion structures on the eastern Iberian Peninsula have traditionally been
analysed through the study of their morphological aspects and their association with …

Ancient faecal material is becoming a highly valuable more frequently investigated proxy
with which to address a wide range of research questions. With advancing scientific …

Over the last few decades a variety of geoarchaeological methods and ethnoarchaeological
and experimental approaches have demonstrated the fundamental importance of animal …