The evolution of human animal relationships in central England is reviewed. In the
Mesolithic, the main focus was on the hunting of large game. The earliest phase of a …

The large assemblage of animal remains from Late Neolithic Durrington Walls (Wiltshire,
England) provides an opportunity to examine patterns of variability in the measurements of …

Possibly no other subject divides the zooarchaeology world into two separate camps more
than biometry: those who like it and those who hate it. Although the choice depends very …

The nature and causes of the transformation in settlement, social structure, and material
culture that occurred in Britain during the Later Iron Age (c. 400-300 BC to the Roman …

The late Middle Ages was a period of changes in England. The decline of the population
and the desertion of vast areas of the countryside caused by the Black Death of the 14th …

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 …

At a conference in Sheffield a few years ago, I suggested that if the three age system had
been created by a British zooarchaeologist, we might today be talking of a Cattle Age (the …

‘The mystery of husbandry’: medieval animals and the problem of integrating historical and
archaeological evidence Page 1 ‘The mystery of husbandry’: medieval animals and the problem …

In 1994 a survey of pet ownership within the European Union revealed that there were a
startling 36 million pet dogs, 35 million pet cats and 173 other pet species (chiefly birds …

This paper investigates the culture of pork consumption in Sicily by examining a number of
archaeological faunal assemblages dated to chronological phases spanning from the …