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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"butchery"”.
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An actualistic butchery study in South Africa and its implications for reconstructing hominid strategies of carcass acquisition and butchery in the upper pleistocene and plio-pleistocene
An actualistic butchery study in South Africa and its implications for reconstructing hominid strategies of carcass acquisition and butchery in the upper pleistocene and plio-pleistocene
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"Butchery and Plunder in God's Name": The Causes of Oliver Cromwell's 1649-1650 Irish Campaign
<p>This thesis proposes to examine the campaign of Oliver Cromwell against the Irish in the years 1649-1650, and its immediate and long-range causes. This will be done by examining the campaign itself and the history of the English and Irish from their first meeting to the final confrontation …
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Zooarchaeological analysis of an urban refuse dump in Cape Town's waterside at the turn of the 19th century
… for this purpose. Other than looking at butchery style, the emphasis was to establish a ''general butchery pattern'', which explains how carcasses were utilized. This thesis only looks at domestic sheep, although the utilization of other domestic bvestock is also discussed. All faunal …
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Food and Fortitude: A Story of Life Within Presidio San Saba as told through Zooarchaeological Analysis
… versus terrestrial animals, element selection, butchery practices, size class, hunting practices and the potential consumptions of horses and bison.
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Rediscovering an Upland Site: The Manastash Pines (45KT346) Kittitas County, Washington
… various rodents. A single marmot tibia exhibited butchery cut marks. The lithic assemblage included 24 pieces of ground stone, a stone bead, 14 projectile points, 45 bifaces, and over 10,000 pieces of debitage. Chipped stone artifacts were primarily cherts, but six were obsidian. Four XRF obsidian …
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Tekison Cave: A Case Study in Archaeological Collection Rehabilitation and Accessibility
… presence of bighorn sheep with evidence of butchery), radiocarbon dating (which provided two age estimates about 900 years ago), and sourced an obsidian biface (from Whitewater Ridge, Oregon). I interviewed an original excavator to better understand the excavation and whereabouts of …
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Using Animals: the use of non-human animals from the material to the metaphorical, 1100-1380
… skin; the flesh of animals in hunting and butchery) to the metaphorical (the use of animal sculpture and religious imagery). Although much of the thesis focusses on the ways in which animals are used in positive or affirming ways, I close with a consideration of the ways creatures were used …
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Marine Resource Specialization in Viking Age Iceland: Exploitation of Seabirds and Fish on Hegranes in Skagafjörður
… Skagafjörður. The data also show specialized butchery of seabirds in the Alcidae family, which suggest cultural continuity of their use across the North Atlantic.</p> <p>This dissertation project aims to highlight the early animal use strategies in one region of Iceland, while also recognizing …
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The role of seals in coastal hunter-gatherer lifeways at Robberg, South Africa
… in earlier time periods, probably due to field butchery and the return of only parts of the seals to the living sites. In the Late Holocene, entire animals were taken back to site. Within each time period, the skeletal profiles of juveniles and adults indicate that both were processed similarly …
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The Mesolithic hunters of the Trentino: a case study in hunter-gatherer settlement and subsistence
… data) and by tool technology (lithic materials). Butchery data are considered as evidence for hunters obtaining important sources of nutrition, including carbohydrates and vitamins, through marrow and bone grease extraction (e.g.Speth 1991). Mesolithic stone tools are examined in terms of the …
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The Doctrine on Contemplation of St. Gregory the Great as Found in Three of His Sermons on Ezekiel
… Gregory, Daily news of the barbarous butchery of his spiritual children comes to the former as it did to the latter. This search into the contemplative writings of St. Gregory, the last of the Church Fathers, was made to discover what he taught In his sermons to the populace about …
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Hunting and herding in a semi-arid region : an archaeozoological and ethological analysis of the faunal remains from the Epipalaeolithic and Neolithic of the eastern Jordanian steppe.
… is investigated. Body part representation, butchery and processing evidence, and taphonomic factors are considered, in order to present a picture of the activities undertaken at each site. The appearance of domestic caprines in eastern Jordan is considered. An assessment is made of their …
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Archaeological seeds and local varieties of edible fruits: morphology through time
… amphorae contained ovine/caprine bones with butchery marks associated with grapes and other fruits, as plums, sloes, and junipers, which may have played a role in meat preservation. Other fruits and nuts found in the same contexts, such as watermelon, bottle gourd, hazelnuts, walnuts, pine …
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Challenges in Reconstructing Past Exploitations of Atlantic Cod: A Zooarchaeological Case Study from Early Medieval England
… years ago. The analysis of skeletal elements and butchery patterns of the Lyminge cod further indicate that stockfish was prepared for local consumption, and possibly for trade, in the same era. Unique statistical tools are presented for estimating past cod sizes, expressed as Total Length (TL), …
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Seasons of Change: Investigating the Role of Seasonality in the Oldowan-Acheulean Transition
… important in dry season foraging (especially butchery contexts). The dissertation first explores the nature of lithic variability in the archaeological record (Chapter 1), before constructing a behavioural ecological framework for the role of seasonality in this process (Chapter 2). It then …
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FROM EAST TO NORTH-WEST AFRICA: MAGNETOCHRONOLOGY OF THE OLDEST AFRICAN ACHEULEAN SITES
… GOM II1-6169), dated to 1.03±0.04 Ma and GOM II “Butchery site” at 0.75 (-0.1; +0.02) Ma. On the other hand, for the two sites GOM Iγ and GOM Iδ only minimum ages were proposed, respectively of ~1.41 and ~1.51 Ma, for lack of chronological constraints in their stratigraphic interval. Beginning …