We consider the long-term relationship between human demography, food production, and
Holocene climate via an archaeological radiocarbon date series of unprecedented sampling …

Tissue-thin parchment made it possible to produce the first pocket Bibles: Thousands were
made in the 13th century. The source of this parchment, often called “uterine vellum,” has …

This book examines the contribution of archaeology to the study of the social, economic,
religious, and other developments in England from the end of the Roman period at the start …

Geometric morphometric methods (GMM), which were developed to characterize the shape
and size of biological organisms, have been applied within zooarchaeology over the past …

In this paper the evidence for the use and consumption of wild birds in medieval England is
reviewed. Wild bird bones are generally uncommon on medieval sites, however they are …

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 …

Objective This study--> provides a baseline of pathological and sub-pathological changes in
the lower-limb bones of a semi-feral herd of domestic cattle. The purpose is to refine an …

This paper seeks to revisit the debate concerning the nature and timing of the British
Agricultural Revolution. Specifically, it considers how zooarchaeological evidence can be …

Zooarchaeological evidence indicates that birds played a smaller role in the economy of
Roman than medieval Britain. Ducks are more common than geese in Roman sites while the …

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 …