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Archaeozoology in Sub-Saharan Africa KU Leuven
The former occurrence of sturgeon in the North Sea: the contribution of archaeozoology and ancient DNA KU Leuven
Traditionally, it was assumed that only one sturgeon species, the European sturgeon, Acipenser sturio L. 1758, used to occur in the North Sea. This species is currently almost extinct, with only one remaining population in the Gironde River in France. Since the early 2000s, different studies have indicated the historical presence of another species, the American Atlantic sturgeon, Acipenser oxyrinchus Mitchill 1815, in France, the Iberian ...
Archaeozoology of the Near East X KU Leuven
'Leffinge - Oude Werf': the first archaeozoological collection from a terp settlement in coastal Flanders Vrije Universiteit Brussel
In the Low Countries, the study of animal remains from Iron Age to early medieval coastal settlements has a long tradition. As early as 1913, Van Giffen published a pioneering study dealing with zoological finds from the coastal sites known as wierden in (the province of) Groningen and as terpen in neighbouring Friesland (Fig. 1). His work was later continued by the Biologisch-Archeologisch Instituut founded in 1920 at the University of ...
Animals in ritual and domestic context: Vrije Universiteit Brussel
In this study, archaeozoological remains (hand-retrieved and retrieved from soil samples) from residential areas and from two different sanctuaries from the vicus Kempraten have been analysed and compared. The archaeozoological assemblage consists of 15 886 animal remains identified to animal group and/or species and were recovered from a number of different features which partially overlap chronologically. We discuss ...
Preliminary archaeozoological report on sectors B6 and B6d in the sanctuary area (Pessinus, Ballıhisar, Turkey) Ghent University
De opgravingen van Thurn en Taxis: een inkijk op het Romeinse landschap en de voedseleconomie (Brussel) Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Des champs et des bêtes à Bruxelles (Xe-XVe siècles): Approche interdisciplinaire des pratiques agricoles et alimentaires Vrije Universiteit Brussel
New archaeozoological evidence for the introduction of the guinea pig to Europe KU Leuven
The remains are described of a guinea pig dated to the end of the 16th - beginning of the 17th c. AD. The animal was discovered at a site in Mons, Belgium, and is the first European archaeozoological find dated with certainty on the basis of both the archaeological context and a radiocarbon dating of its bone. This find confirms that the guinea pig was introduced to Europe soon after the conquest of South America. The morphological and metrical ...