Neolithic shepherds and sheepfold caves in Southern France and adjacent areas: An overview from 40 years of bioarchaeological analyses

C Delhon, L Martin, S Thiébault - Quaternary International, 2024 - Elsevier
In southern France, the analysis of fossil dung layers from caves and shelters occupied by
the first Neolithic farmers has provided a wealth of information about the lives of shepherds …

Early Neolithic household behavior at Tell Seker al-Aheimar (Upper Khabur, Syria): a comparison to ethnoarchaeological study of phytoliths and dung spherulites

M Portillo, S Kadowaki, Y Nishiaki, RM Albert - Journal of Archaeological …, 2014 - Elsevier
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 …

Disentangling human–plant–animal dynamics at the microscale: geo-ethnoarchaeological case studies from North Africa and the Near East

M Portillo, A García-Suárez - Applied Sciences, 2021 - mdpi.com
Livestock dung is a suitable material for delineating the complexity of interactions between
people, plants and animals as it contains critical information on environmental and …

Husbandry practices and livestock dung at the Numidian site of Althiburos (el Médéina, Kef Governorate, northern Tunisia): the phytolith and spherulite evidence

M Portillo, RM Albert - Journal of Archaeological Science, 2011 - Elsevier
Recent excavations at Althiburos, northern Tunisia, have shown the existence of permanent
pre-roman occupations in the central area of the urban settlement. Significantly, the site has …

Preliminary ethnoarchaeological research on modern animal husbandry in Bestansur, Iraqi Kurdistan: integrating animal, plant and environmental data

S Elliott, R Bendrey, J Whitlam, KR Aziz… - Environmental …, 2015 - Taylor & Francis
This paper presents preliminary results from an ethnoarchaeological study of animal
husbandry in the modern village of Bestansur, situated in the lower Zagros Mountains of …

Domestic patterns in the Numidian site of Althiburos (northern Tunisia): the results from a combined study of animal bones, dung and plant remains

M Portillo, S Valenzuela, RM Albert - Quaternary International, 2012 - Elsevier
The understanding of taphonomic and soil formation processes is critical for evaluating the
integrity of the archaeological record. The Numidian settlement of Althiburos, northern …

Pen management and livestock activities based on phytoliths, dung spherulites, and minerals from Cova Gran de Santa Linya (Southeastern pre-Pyrenees)

A Burguet-Coca, A Polo-Díaz… - Archaeological and …, 2020 - Springer
The archaeological evidence from Cova Gran de Santa Linya suggests that during the Late
Neolithic and Early Bronze Age, the site was used as a livestock enclosure where the …

Phytoliths in plants from the south coast of the Greater Cape Floristic Region (South Africa)

I Esteban, J Vlok, EL Kotina, MK Bamford… - Review of Palaeobotany …, 2017 - Elsevier
This is the first quantitative and morphological study of phytoliths from a diversity of plant
species (56 spp., 23 genera and 14 families), growth forms (Restionaceae (restios) and …

Underwater Neolithic combustion features: A micro-geoarchaeological study in the submerged settlements off the Carmel Coast, Israel

I Ogloblin Ramirez, E Galili… - The Journal of Island …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Combustion features are routinely studied using micro-geoarchaeology in prehistoric sites,
providing information on human social life. In submerged prehistory such features have not …

An estate at Zincirli? Land use and resource exploitation at the Middle Bronze Age monumental building Complex DD in Zincirli, Gaziantep Province of Turkey

K Deckers, D Karakaya, L Poolman, B Öğüt… - Archaeological and …, 2023 - Springer
Near Eastern monumental buildings once hosted institutions with a variety of economic and
environmental footprints. In this article examining a Middle Bronze Age II (seventeenth …