Aleo, Alessandro Duches, Rossella Falcucci, Armando Rots, Veerle Peresani, Marco
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Endscrapers are specialized tools that are usually recovered in great quantities in every Upper Paleolithic site in Europe. Although they make their first ephemeral appearance in the Middle–late Middle Paleolithic transitional technocomplexes, endscrapers commonly appear in toolkits from initial and early Upper Paleolithic traditions onwards. Never...
Oyarzún-Ruiz, Pablo Pérez-Espinoza, Samuel A. González-Saldías, Fernanda Martin, Fabiana Moreno, Lucila
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Despite the ubiquity of parasitism, the knowledge regarding fossil parasites remains fragmentary. As an example, South American clade Xenarthra was a predominant group of mammals during the Cenozoic; however, its paleoparasitological knowledge has many gaps, with only a few reports in armadillos and fewer in ground sloths. Darwin’s ground sloth (My...
Wood, Jonathan R. Greenacre, Michael
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Park, Jang Sik Savelieva, Tamara
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Talgar in southeast Kazakhstan was one of the flourishing medieval towns in Central Asia that faced the Mongol invasion, which led to little textual or material evidence documented of subsequent human residence. A metal assemblage consisting of eight iron tools and a lighting device recently excavated from what is typically considered a medieval si...
Maccarinelli, Angela
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Historical sources report that some species of freshwater fish were considered luxury food items in England during the Middle Ages. The high retail price associated with species such as pike, salmon and sturgeon, as well as restrictions of fishing rights on rivers, estuaries and natural and artificial ponds, proves their exclusivity and role as sym...
Uzunidis, Antigone Pineda, Antonio Jiménez-Manchón, Sergio Xafis, Alexandros Ollivier, Vincent Rivals, Florent
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Dental microwear analysis is a proxy for analysing the diet in extinct and extant vertebrates, especially mammals. The limits of these approaches are still rather poorly known, especially in terms of taphonomic impacts. Indeed, several physical or chemical phenomena may have altered the microscopic features linked to the diet and compromised their ...
Bartosiewicz, László Gál, Erika
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Fourteenth–fifteenth century food refuse from the kitchen of the Esztergom archbishopric shows a significant diachronic increase in cyprinid bones, in particular those of carp. Meanwhile, contributions by large acipenserids and carnivorous species (catfish/wels, pike, percids) declined. Contemporaneous account books indirectly suggest that the arch...
Yu, Chong Cui, Yong
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To date, fishing economies of prehistoric populations of coastal South China have been inadequately studied. This paper presents the results from the first systematic study that documents a subsistence economy from the Neolithic settlement site of Guye (5900–5400 cal BP) in the Pearl River Delta region of Southern China using an ichthyoarchaeologic...
Campbell, Matthew Lilkendey, Julian Reid, Malcolm Walter, Richard Wijenayake, Kavindra Zhang, Jingjing Sabetian, Armagan
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Tāmure (Australasian snapper, Chrysophrys auratus) is the most commonly identified fish in pre-European Māori middens in northern New Zealand. Tāmure reproduce in open water, after which their larvae migrate to nurseries in sheltered inshore environments. The range of suitable nursery habitats in the Hauraki Gulf has declined over the last century ...
Gutiérrez-Carrillo, M. L. Arizzi, A.
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The southeast of the Iberian Peninsula counts with a large number of earthen defensive architecture built in the medieval period. This heritage has been granted the highest level of protection by Spanish legislation and some of these structures are even listed as UNESCO World Heritage Sites worldwide. Notwithstanding, the natural and anthropic risk...
