Saltmarshes are tremendously important culturally and ecologically because they can
provide abundant nutrient-rich fodder for grazing livestock, with relatively little resource …

This study investigates the nature of diet in a predominantly Late Medieval Gaelic Irish
skeletal population and explores whether any sex-based and/or age differences were …

Historical zooarchaeologists have made significant contributions to key questions about the
social, economic, and nutritional dimensions of domestic animal use in North American …

Nearly four decades ago, a highway expansion project resulted in the excavation of 35
unmarked graves at Catoctin Furnace, an industrial ironworking village in western Maryland …

Textual records and archaeological evidence reflect prosperous animal farming in the
Eastern Zhou of ancient China (770–220 bc), but knowledge of how these animals were fed …

Abstract In 1994, Barbara Ruff and Elizabeth Reitz published a morphometric study of
archaeological cattle (Bos taurus) remains from Hispaniola and the North American Atlantic …

This study uses isotopic analyses to explore how new railroad transportation systems
influenced Chinese diaspora meat sourcing and animal husbandry in the nineteenth-century …

This chapter provides an introduction to the application of isotope bioarchaeological
approaches to the historical period, and a discussion of the role of isotope bioarchaeology …

Isotopic analysis of zoological material in archaeological deposits may help identify the
origin of predated individuals. Here we assess the utility of carbon, nitrogen, and sulfur …

Using skeletal remains from the eighteenth-century Fortress of Louisbourg, this study aimed
to explore whether the adolescent (< 25 years) and adult (> 25 years) male experiences …