The Neolithisation of Europe has seen the transformation of hunting-gathering societies into
farming communities. At least partly exogenous in its origins, this process led to major …

Beginning with a critical presentation of Sherratt's model of the “secondary products”
revolution, the authors review the most recent biochemical, isotopic and palaeogenetic …

The extinct aurochs (Bos primigenius primigenius) was a large type of cattle that ranged
over almost the whole Eurasian continent. The aurochs is the wild progenitor of modern …

Evaluating the role of milk production in prehistoric subsistence economies requires a better
estimation of the capacity of a milk-oriented husbandry under prehistoric conditions …

Stable carbon and nitrogen isotope values were obtained from human and faunal bones
from the Early Anglo-Saxon cemetery site at Wally Corner, Berinsfield, Oxfordshire, UK …

The identification of the exploitation of products from small domestic ruminants in prehistory
is only possible through an archaeozoological and ethological approach, as each type of …

Bercy is a prehistoric village sited by the Seine river (Paris, France), whose main period of
occupation was dated to the very beginning of the 4th millennium BC. The animal …

Red deer bone collagen from Rochedane in the Jura (France) was analysed for carbon and
nitrogen isotopic composition. The specimens range in 14C age from about 13 000 to 8000 …

Studies on Holocene periods in France and Liguria over the past 15 years provide an
important isotopic database (δ 13 C and δ 15 N) on human and animal bone collagen …

We present an extensive ancient DNA analysis of mainly Neolithic cattle bones sampled
from archaeological sites along the route of Neolithic expansion, from Turkey to North …