Zoology & Archaeozoology

ISBN: 9788859606291
Published by : Edizioni Polistampa
The Atlas of Italian Amphibians and Reptiles presents the distribution, ecology and conservation status of the 37 species of amphibians and the 50 species of reptiles found in Italy. A 10x10 km UTM grid map is supplied for each species, on the ... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781905119790
Published by : Windgather Press
Eight thousand years ago, when the sea cut Britain off from the rest of the Continent, the island's fauna was very different: most of the animals familiar to us today were not present, while others, now extinct, were abundant. Over the course o... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780521758581
Published by : Cambridge University Press
Birds is the first book to examine bird remains in archaeology and anthropology. Providing a thorough review of the literature on this topic, it also serves as a guide to the methods of study of bird remains from the past and covers a wide rang... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780905594507
Published by : East Anglian Archaeology
Series: East Anglian Archaeology Occasional Paper
Volume: 22
In the 1980s, work began on construction of the vast underground Castle Mall shopping centre in Norwich. The associated archaeological excavation was one of the largest of its kind in northern Europe, designed to investigate not only the castl... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9783515092814
Published by : Franz Steiner Verlag
Series: Wissenschaftskultur um 1900
Volume: 5
Karl August Möbius (1825-1908), zoologist and museum expert, was one of the most versatile natural scientists of the German Empire. This newly edited volume contains Möbius' essay on the esthetics of the animal kingdom - demonstrating the laws of ... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9783700165866
Published by : Austrian Academy of Sciences Press
Series: Biosystematics and Ecology

Volume: 25
The Common Hamster is a fascinating species that differs from other hibernating small mammals in several aspects. Females have up to three litters per season and under favourable conditions both males and females are sexually mature in their fi... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780521715362
Published by : Cambridge University Press
Quantitative Paleozoology describes and illustrates how the remains of long-dead animals recovered from archaeological and paleontological excavations can be studied and analyzed. The methods range from determining how many animals of each spec... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9789638046970
Published by : Archaeolingua
Wer liebt nicht Pferde? Das Schicksal einer gefährdeten Wildtierart beruehrt viele und ist auch von wissenschaftsgeschichtlichem Interesse. Sándor Bökönyi (1926-1994), einer der Begruender der modernen Archäozoologie, veröffentlichte 1974 sein erf... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9789638046857
Published by : Archaeolingua
Archaeo-ornithology is a special field within archaeozoology: it deals with the analysis of avian remains found during archaeological excavations and the historical study of bird exploitation. Bird remains do not only help in the reconstruction of... .... Learn More