The debate regarding the susceptibility of bone and enamel carbonate to preserve in vivo
carbon isotope ratios is as old as paleodietary research. After more than three decades of …

The NeoArabia project tries to understand how environmental, social, economic and
technological factors work in concert to influence settlement and abandonment along a …

Cats are hypercarnivorous, opportunistic animals that have adjusted to anthropogenic
environments since the Neolithic period. Through humans, either by direct feeding and/or …

This paper is focused on cultural and subsistence changes in North African societies during
the Early and Middle Holocene, with a special emphasis on the emergence of a productive …

In this paper, the authors use the site of Saruq al-Hadid–a 'persistent temporary
place'located in the mobile dune fields of the north eastern edge of the Rub'al-Khali desert …

Abstract In Eastern Arabia, the Neolithic period (c. 6500–3300 BCE) corresponds to a
cultural phase principally characterized by the development of mixed economies based on …

Abstract Objectives In Southeast (SE) Arabia, agriculture is supposed to expand around
3000 BC, but its tempo and its actual role in populations' subsistence is still debated by …

Bone trace element content and isotopic composition are closely related to human nutrition.
The investigation of archaeological bone geochemistry can help us to better understand the …

Bone chemical composition (particularly utilizing isotopes) analysis was a relatively late
bloomer, beginning in the early 2000s and only gathering pace in the last five to ten years …

The study of the fish bones from the Neolithic shell midden of Suwayh 1, excavated in the
2000s, identified a total of 1060 identifiable fish bones, from 23 families, 33 genera and 28 …