Buscar recursos académicos

Zooarchaeology is an established subfield of archaeology that incorporates a variety of interdisciplinary tools. Advances in analytical methods like radiocarbon dating, stable isotope analysis, and ancient DNA analysis h...

Archaeological animal bone assemblages are often highly fragmented, meaning that for over 70% of the recovered bone fragments we do not know what animal (or human) species they belonged to. This is especially problematic...

Advances in biomolecular methods, in particular the study of ancient proteins (palaeoproteomics), have revolutionised how we can taxonomically identify archaeological bone fragments. Alongside traditional zooarchaeologic...

Zooarchaeology by Mass Spectrometry (ZooMS) is a rapid, low-cost, collagen-based method for the taxonomic identification of animal tissues. It is now increasingly applied to bone fragments from archaeological contexts, c...

Reconstructing the faunal palaeoecology of landscapes occupied by Neanderthals and their competitors is essential for better understanding their ecological niche, decisions, and behaviors. Late Pleistocene faunal assembl...

How prehispanic foragers adjusted their foraging activities to plant cultivation is a question that drives much of the modern archaeological research. As a result, the spread of food-producing economies during the Late P...

Over the past three decades, a new picture of our own ancestral past has emerged through the elucidation of the complex genetic relationships between Neanderthals, Denisovans, and modern humans by the direct analysis of ...

Las alteraciones diagenéticas comprenden aquellos cambios físicos y químicos que experimentan los restos orgánicos (v. g., los tejidos duros) bajo condiciones de enterramiento. En zooarqueología, las investigaciones...

El Mazo rock shelter (Asturias, Spain) contains a long and well-dated Mesolithic sequence that shows an extended human presence between 9 and 7.4 ka cal BP, including the climatic 8.2 ka event. This is evident from firep...

In the paleoproteomic field, ZooMS (Zooarchaeology by Mass Spectrometry) has been developed to identify morphologically non-diagnostic animal remains to taxon, offering insights into human subsistence practices. Here, we...