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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"Animal bones"”.
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The Mesolithic hunters of the Trentino: a case study in hunter-gatherer settlement and subsistence
… prehistory, it is necessary to examine both animal bones and lithic material. These represent the mainforms of archaeological evidence recorded from a series of valley bottom rock shelter and open air high altitude sites in the Trentino. An interpretative framework using risk based models is …
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Returning to Memory An Exhibition of Oracle Bone Script
… characters carved on turtle plastrons and animal bones using a sharp tool. Oracle bone script was used for divination through fire in the Shang dynasty (c.1600-1046 BCE). This research explores ways to promote and enhance audience interest in the script through storytelling strategies that …
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ΣΥΜΒΟΛΗ ΣΤΗ ΜΕΛΕΤΗ ΤΗΣ ΠΑΛΑΙΟΠΑΝΙΔΑΣ ΤΩΝ ΜΕΓΑΛΩΝ ΣΠΟΝΔΥΛΩΤΩΝ (CARNIVORA, PERISSODACTYLA, ARTIODACTYLA) ΤΟΥ ΣΠΗΛΑΙΟΥ ΤΩΝ ΠΕΤΡΑΛΩΝΩΝ ΤΗΣ ΧΑΛΚΙΔΙΚΗΣ
ABOUT 1.500 ANIMAL BONES AND BONE-FRAGMENTS FROM PETRALONA CAVE HAVE BEEN IDENTIFIED AND ANALYSED. SKULLS, HORNS, TEETH AND POSTCRANIAL SKELETON FROM LARGE MAMMALS HAVE BEEN STUDIED TO THE PRESENT PAPER. THE STUDY OF THE FOLLOWING FAMILIES: URSIDAE, CANIDAE, HYAENIDAE, FELIDAE, EQUIDAE, …
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8maw8gan: Zooarchaeology of Changing W8banaki Fishing Practices at Fort Odanak on Alsig8ntegw
… document these practices, I study fish and other animal remains found in archaeological contexts at the Fort Odanak site, a Jesuit mission and military fort on Alsig8ntegw (St-Francis River) in Québec. This project was performed in collaboration with the W8banaki Research Coordination Committee to …
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A comparative microscopic study of human and non-human long bone histology.
… and nonhuman bone, and to estimate age in human bones by using histomorphometric analysis. In this project, 64 human bones and 65 animal bones were collected from the mortuary of the Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia Medical Centre and the Zoos in Malaysia, respectively. A standard bone preparation …
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The use of histological methods to distinguish between burned remains of human and non-human bone
… it is necessary to identify if bone tissue is animal or human in nature. This process is complicated when bone is highly fragmented or burned. Previous research has established the ability to differentiate human from non-human bone histologically, however, further research is necessary to …
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Of fish, pigs and cesspits : a comparative study of stable carbon and nitrogen isotope analyses on animal bone and soil samples from five medieval sites in Belguim
… so ¹³C/¹²C and ¹⁵N/¹⁴N analyses were made on animal bones and soil samples from a medieval fisherman's village, Walraversijde. In addition, samples were analysed from four other late medieval sites: Ostend, Bruges, Aalst and Namur. Bone collagen samples fiorn Walraversijde showed an …
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The Tradition of Imitative Copying in Chinese Calligraphy
… calligraphy—paper, silk, wood or bamboo slips, animal bones etc.—, its artistic object is the two-dimensional visual representation of the written characters of the Chinese language. Moreover, in the development of the Chinese scripts, calligraphy has been enriched with a wide range of technical …
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3D printing of bone scaffolds using powders derived from biogenic sources
… fabrication of scaffolds for the regeneration of bones. At this purpose, calcium phosphates derived from natural sources are very interesting because they are more similar to the bone mineral and possess better bioactivity. Indeed, the bone mineral is different from synthetic hydroxyapatite as it …
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Animals and the economy of medieval Ireland: a zooarchaeological analysis of the faunal remains from Caherconnell Cashel, Co. Clare
Animals were central to the economy of early (400–1100 AD) and late (1100–1550 AD) medieval Ireland, and were particularly vital to the food economy, farming practices, and social status of a settlement and its occupants. With the Anglo-Normans dominating the archaeology of the later period, there …
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Taken to the grave. An archaeozoological approach assessing the role of animals as crematory offerings in first millennium AD Britain.
… AD included burning complete or parts of animals on the pyre. This thesis highlights the potential for archaeozoological analysis of faunal pyre goods using assemblages from the first millennium AD as a dataset. Experimental study and the integration of current research from a number of …
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Stable isotope evidence for British Iron Age diet. Inter- and intra-site variation in carbon and nitrogen from bone collagen at Wetwang in East Yorkshire and sites in East Lothian, Hampshire and Cornwall.
… England and southern Scotland. Both human and animal bone Collagen has been analysed from Wetwang in East Yorkshire and other sites in East Lothian, Hampshire and Cornwall. Animal bone from Dorset has also been included. The aims of the study were to characterize British Iron Age diet in …