Early domestication and farming: what should we know or do for a better understanding?

JD Vigne - Anthropozoologica, 2015 - BioOne
This paper aims to identify a series of conceptual, strategic and technological challenges
facing archaeozoology (and archaeobotany) in order to better understand when, where, how …

[PDF][PDF] The contribution of Mediterranean connectivity to morphological variability in Iron Age sheep of the Eastern Mediterranean

SA Harding, A Hadjikoumis, S Vermeersch, R Shafir… - bioRxiv, 2022 - biorxiv.org
The movement of livestock across the Mediterranean is well-documented in the Neolithic
era, but its significance during subsequent periods has received less attention. Here we start …

Shape analysis of Iron Age sheep astragali suggests west-to-east morphotype diffusion in the southern Levant

SA Harding, N Marom - bioRxiv, 2022 - biorxiv.org
We examine the possibility that expanding trans-Mediterranean trade during the Iron Age
(ca. 1,000–350 BCE) has resulted in increased morphological variability among sheep from …

2D geometric morphometrics of murine mandibular toothrows from Liang Bua (Flores, Indonesia): implications for taxonomic identification

A Eber - 2022 - lurepository.lakeheadu.ca
This study uses—and evaluates the efficacy of—two-dimensional geometric morphometrics
(2DGM) to quantitatively characterize the size and shape of murine rodent (ie, rat) …