Zoology & Archaeozoology
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Zooarchaeology of South America [Paperback]
Guillermo Luis Mengoni Gonalons (Author)
£37.00ISBN: 9781841716480
Published by : British Archaeological Reports
This volume presents eleven specialised and technical papers, plus an introduction, on the zooarchaeology of pre-Hispanic South America. Specially commissioned from young zooarchaeologists, the essays discuss: the diet of Patagonian hunter-gath... .... Learn More -
Just Skin and Bones? New Perspectives on Human-Animal Relations in the Historical Past [Paperback]
Aleksander Pluskowski (Author)
£27.00ISBN: 9781841718538
Published by : British Archaeological Reports
This volume of nine papers is derived from two sessions focusing on current research in British zooarchaeology; the first of which took place in October 2003, at the meeting of the Theoretical Archaeology Group in Lampeter, entitled 'Just Skin ... .... Learn More -
An Evolutionary Study of Some Archaeologically Significant Avian Taxa in the Quaternary of the Western Palaearctic [Paperback]
John R. Stewart (Author)
£38.00ISBN: 9781407300894
Published by : British Archaeological Reports
This work sets out to examine four taxa of birds from the Quaternary of Europe that exhibit interesting morphological anomalies cranes (Grus), grouse/ptarmigans (Lagopus), ravens (Corvus corax) and starlings (Sturnus) to address whether these... .... Learn More -
Osteometry, and Osteological Age and Sex Determination of the Sisimiut Reindeer Population (Rangifer Tarandus Groenlandicus) [Paperback]
Kerstin Pasda (Author)
£50.00ISBN: 9781407304533
Published by : British Archaeological Reports
This book publishes the results of investigations carried out between 1999-2003 in West Greenland on reindeer that died naturally. 282 complete skeletons and 403 skeleton parts were recorded and measured, mostly in the field, but with some ana... .... Learn More -
Archaeozoological Approaches to Medieval Moldavia [Paperback]
Luminita Bejenaru (Author)
£34.00ISBN: 9781407304373
Published by : British Archaeological Reports
In this work the author correlates animal history with the evolution of human society and with ecological transformations in medieval Moldavia, revealing the role played by animals in the life of medieval communities, the exploitation strategi... .... Learn More -
Lerna I: The Fauna [Hardback]
Nils-Gustaf Gejvall (Author)
Regular Price: £20.00
Special Price: £4.95
ISBN: 9780876613016
Published by : American School of Classical Studies at Athens
Series: Lerna
Produced at a time when faunal studies were still uncommon on most excavations, this book may seem methodologically rather out of date now. However, the descriptive sections provide surprising insights into the lives of the inhabitants of Bronz... .... Learn More -
Dereivka [Paperback]
Dmitriy Yakolevich Telegin (Author); J. P. Mallory (Author); V. K. Pyatkovsky (Author)
£20.00ISBN: 9780860543695
Published by : British Archaeological Reports
A Settlement and Cemetery of Copper Age Horse Keepers on the Middle Dnieper. .... Learn More -
Star Carr Revisited [Paperback]
A. J. Legge (Author); P Rowley-Conwy (Author)
£8.95ISBN: 9780718708764
Published by : University of London
Series: pa-site
A re-examination of the animal bones from Star Carr, with some changes in identification and re-analysis. Results include: strong support for the suggestion that the site was used only in late spring and summer; evidence that the cull of red and r... .... Learn More -
Fishes [Paperback]
Alwyne Wheeler (Author); Andrew K.G. Jones (Author)
£18.99ISBN: 9780521105415
Published by : Cambridge University Press
Fishes is a practical introduction to the study of fish remains from archaeological sites, designed for archaeologists and archaezoologists working in the field and in the laboratory. It provides clear guidelines for the identification of remai... .... Learn More -