A5058814325- Archaeology and ancient environmental studies
- Archaeology and Historical Studies
- Maritime and Coastal Archaeology
- Ancient Mediterranean Archaeology and History
- Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology
- Ancient Egypt and Archaeology
- Ancient and Medieval Archaeology Studies
- Ancient Near East History
- Historical and Archaeological Studies
- Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies
- Isotope Analysis in Ecology
- Fish Biology and Ecology Studies
- Paleopathology and ancient diseases
- Archaeological and Geological Studies
- Marine and fisheries research
- Fish Ecology and Management Studies
- Global Maritime and Colonial Histories
- Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies
- Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
- Marine and environmental studies
- Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
- Classical Antiquity Studies
- Identification and Quantification in Food
- Byzantine Studies and History
- Evolution and Paleontology Studies
Institute of Natural Sciences
2015-2024
KU Leuven
2015-2024
Stichting tot Steun VCVGZ
2013
Koning (United States)
2013
University of Manchester
2009
Hebrew University of Jerusalem
2005
Royal Museum for Central Africa
1989-2004
Université de Reims Champagne-Ardenne
1999
Süleyman Demirel University
1997
Zooarcheological evidence suggests that pigs were domesticated in Southwest Asia ∼8,500 BC. They then spread across the Middle and Near East westward into Europe alongside early agriculturalists. European either independently or more likely appeared so as a result of admixture between introduced wild boar. As result, boar mtDNA lineages replaced Eastern/Anatolian signatures subsequently indigenous domestic pig Anatolia. The specific details these processes, however, remain unknown. To...
Faunal evidence from the Fayum Neolithic is often cited in framework of early stock keeping Egypt. However, data suffer a number problems. In present paper, large faunal datasets new excavations at Kom K and W (4850–4250 BC) are presented. They clearly show that, despite presence domesticates, fish predominate animal bone assemblages. this sense, there continuity with earlier Holocene occupation Fayum, starting ca. 7350 BC. Domesticated plants animals appear first approximately 5400 The...
Abstract The distribution of the black rat ( Rattus rattus ) has been heavily influenced by its association with humans. dispersal history this non-native commensal rodent across Europe, however, remains poorly understood, and different introductions may have occurred during Roman medieval periods. Here, in order to reconstruct population European rats, we first generate a de novo genome assembly rat. We then sequence 67 ancient three modern mitogenomes, 36 nuclear genomes from...
Carbon and nitrogen stable isotope ratios were measured in 157 fish bone collagen samples from 15 different archaeological sites Belgium which ranged ages the 3rd to 18th c. AD. Due diagenetic contamination of burial environment, only 63 specimens produced results with suitable C : N (2.9–3.6). The selected bones encompass a wide spectrum freshwater, brackish, marine taxa (N = 18), this is reflected δ13C (−28.2‰ −12.9%). freshwater have values that range −28.2‰ −20.2‰, while cluster between...
Abstract An isotopic reconstruction of human dietary patterns and livestock management practices (herding, grazing, foddering, etc.) is presented here from the sites Düzen Tepe Sagalassos in southwestern Turkey. Carbon nitrogen stable isotope ratios were determined bone collagen extracted humans ( n = 49) animals 454) five distinct time periods: Classical‐Hellenistic (400–200 BC), Early to Middle Imperial (25 BC–300 AD), Late (300–450 Byzantine (450–600 (800–1200 AD). The had protein sources...
The reconstruction of the environment and human population history Nile Valley during Late Pleistocene have received a lot attention in literature thus far. There seems to be consensus that MIS2 extreme dry conditions prevailed over north-eastern Africa, which was apparently not occupied by humans. an exception; numerous field data been collected suggesting important density Upper Egypt MIS2. occupation remains are often stratified in, or at least related to, aeolian deposits some elevation...
Human-mediated biological exchange has had global social and ecological impacts. In sub-Saharan Africa, several domestic commensal animals were introduced from Asia in the pre-modern period; however, timing nature of these introductions remain contentious. One model supports introduction to eastern African coast after mid-first millennium CE, while another posits dating back 3000 BCE. These distinct scenarios have implications for understanding emergence long-distance maritime connectivity,...
The statement, by the eighteenth-century economist Adam Smith, that luxuries are all things not necessities is too simplistic an approach to be useful within context of zooarchaeology. To start with, animal products could regarded as unnecessary human diet. Therefore, a four-part subdivision proposed, distinguishing between foodstuffs fulfil basic physiological needs, those imagined render diet affluent and, finally, luxury foods. Optimal foraging theory further develops this also taking...
Une synthèse des données archéozoologiques sur le commerce de poissons dans la partie orientale Méditerranée, depuis Chalcolithique jusqu 'au temps croisades, est présentée. Cette revue basée bibliographiques et ensembles fauniques inédits, étudiés par les auteurs, provenant 76 sites. Des restes du Nil, Méditerranée mer Rouge sont fréquemment rencontrés sites archéologiques situés en dehors distribution naturelle espèces indiquent dès lors qu 'il s 'agit denrées qui faisaient l 'objet ou d...
ABSTRACT Stable isotope ratios (δ 13 C and δ 15 N) were measured in human burials from the post‐medieval (16th–18th c. AD) Carmelite friary burial grounds at Aalst, a town Flanders, Belgium. Dietary patterns of 39 adult individuals analyzed, mixed monastic lay population buried three different locations, reflecting groups with differing social status. The data show significant variation consumption perhaps meat, but certainly also marine protein between females males. This result represents...
Although recent historical ecology studies have extended quantitative knowledge of eastern Baltic cod (Gadus morhua) exploitation back as far the 16th century, origin modern fishery remains obscure. Widespread archaeological evidence for consumption around littoral emerges 13th three centuries before systematic documentation, but it is not clear whether this represents (1) development a substantial fishery, or (2) large-scale importation preserved from elsewhere. To distinguish between these...
The available data are reviewed on ichthyofaunas from prehistoric sites along the Nile in Egypt and Sudanese Nubia. Former fishing practices reconstructed using information derived species spectra, fish sizes, growth increment analysis implements. It is demonstrated that was initially practised exclusively floodplain it limited to a small number of shallow water taxa during Late Palaeolithic times. From Epipalaeolithic onwards (ca 10000-8000 bp), also undertaken main whereby exploited...
Continued excavations at the Predynastic elite cemetery HK6 Hierakonpolis have yielded new evidence for cultural control of cats during Naqada IC-IIB period (c. 3800–3600 BC). In same burial ground where was previously found keeping jungle cat (Felis chaus), a small pit discovered containing six cats. The animals that were buried simultaneously, are male and female, four kittens belonging to two different litters. long bone measurements adult individuals clearly fall in range Felis...