A large assortment of skulls and skeletons of recent wild boar (Sus scrofa) from across the
world has been used to collect tooth and bone measurements that can be compared to …

The zooarchaeology of pig domestication in China is a challenging task due to its wild boar
ancestors being widespread throughout Eurasia. However using geometric morphometric …

This article reviews aspects of the development of animal husbandry in Roman Britain,
focusing in particular on the Iron Age/Roman and Roman/early medieval transitions. By …

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 …

In this paper zooarchaeological evidence from Iron Age and Roman sites in South-East
Britain is presented and the results are applied to the continuing debate over culture contact …

The process of domestication increases the variety of phenotypes expressed in animals.
Zooarchaeologists have attempted to study these changes osteologically in their search for …

Abstract Log Size Indexes (LSI) allow the increase of the number of data and have been
used in a number of zooarchaeological studies since 1950. However, some standards to …

Integrating zooarchaeological and ancient textual datasets for cattle provides a more
comprehensive picture of breed developments for Roman Italy. Widespread increases in …

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

Zooarchaeological research has begun to expose the long and complex history of the pig in
the southern Levant. In this paper, we present the first large-scale synthesis of biometrical …