A key question in archaeobotany concerns the role of herbivore dung in contributing plant
remains to archaeobotanical assemblages. This issue has been discussed for at least 40 …

Neolithic Farming in Central Europe examines the nature of the earliest crop cultivation, a
subject that illuminates the lives of Neolithic farming families and the day-to-day reality of the …

Much circumstantial evidence has accumulated for ape culture, based on observations of
the transfer of adult expertise to novices, typically juveniles. Controlled experiments have …

Questo volume rappresenta un contributo di notevole interesse non solo nell'ambito delle
ricerche di ecologia storica, ma anche per l'utilità che le metodologie proposte rivestono più …

Domestication of wild cattle, sheep, and pigs began a process of body size diminution. In
most of Western Europe this process continued across prehistory and was not reversed until …

Over 300 goat/sheep faeces from the Neolithic lake-shore settlement of Arbon Bleiche 3
(3384–3370 bc) were analysed for macrofossils and 22 of them for pollen. Two main types of …

In pre-industrial societies in which the majority of the population lived directly off the land,
few issues were more important than the maintenance of soil fertility. Manure really …

At the excavation of the Neolithic site of Arbon Bleiche 3, Switzerland (3384–3370 BC, dated
using dendrochronology), objects were found that strongly resembled cow pats. Both …

Over the last few decades a variety of geoarchaeological methods and ethnoarchaeological
and experimental approaches have demonstrated the fundamental importance of animal …

Las excavaciones arqueológicas iniciadas en 1999 en la cueva de El Mirador de la sierra
de Atapuerca han permitido documentar hasta el momento una sucesión estratigráfica …