Search Results - "Neer, W. Van"

Sites with Holocene dung deposits in the Eastern Desert of Egypt: Visited by herders? by Linseele, V., Marinova, E., Van Neer, W., Vermeersch, P.M.

“…The Tree Shelter and Sodmein Cave are two sites in the Egyptian Eastern Desert with stratified archaeological deposits. In Middle Holocene contexts of both…”
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Eagle owl (Bubo bubo) pellets from Roman Sagalassos (SW Turkey): distinguishing the prey remains from nest and roost sites by De Cupere, B., Thys, S., Van Neer, W., Ervynck, A., Corremans, M., Waelkens, M.

“…Two concentrations of animal bones, almost exclusively from small mammals and wild birds, were found within the destruction debris of a Roman bath complex in…”
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Seasonality only works in certain parts of the year: the reconstruction of fishing seasons through otolith analysis by van Neer, W., Ervynck, A., Bolle, L. J., Millner, R. S.

“…Seasonality estimations using incremental data usually suffer from small sample sizes and from the lack of comparison with sufficiently large modern samples…”
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The Holocene occurrence of Acipenser spp. in the southern North Sea: the archaeological record by Thieren, E., Ervynck, A., Brinkhuizen, D., Locker, A., Van Neer, W.

“…Archaeological sturgeon remains from the southern North Sea basin used to be automatically attributed to Acipenser sturio, since this was the only acipenserid…”
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Traumatism in the Wild Animals Kept and Offered at Predynastic Hierakonpolis, Upper Egypt by Van Neer, W., Udrescu, M., Linseele, V., De Cupere, B., Friedman, R.

“…A description is given of the violence‐related pathologies that are observed in a number of wild mammals that were buried in the predynastic cemetery HK6 at…”
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Inter- and intraspecific variation in the surface pattern of the dermal bones of two sturgeon species by Thieren, E., Ottoni, C., Popović, D., Van Neer, W.

“…Summary Archaeological bone remains of sturgeon (Acipenser sturio/Acipenser oxyrinchus) from northwestern Europe are often identified to species on the basis…”
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Evidence for Banana Cultivation and Animal Husbandry During the First Millennium bc in the Forest of Southern Cameroon by Mbida, Christophe M., Van Neer, Wim, Doutrelepont, Hugues, Vrydaghs, Luc

“…The faunal and botanical data from the first millennium bc site of Nkang, Southern Cameroon, are presented in this paper. The analysed material, retrieved from…”
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Osteological evidence for the draught exploitation of cattle: first applications of a new methodology by De Cupere, Bea, Lentacker, An, Van Neer, Wim, Waelkens, Marc, Verslype, Laurent

“…Although the aetiology of bone pathologies in cattle is poorly documented, various deformations in the skeleton have been attributed to draught exploitation in…”
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Growth changes in plaice, cod, haddock and saithe in the North Sea: a comparison of (post-)medieval and present-day growth rates based on otolith measurements by Bolle, Loes J, Rijnsdorp, Adriaan D, van Neer, Wim, Millner, Richard S, van Leeuwen, Piet I, Ervynck, Anton, Ayers, Richard, Ongenae, Ellen

“…Fishing effort has strongly increased in the North Sea since the mid-19th century, causing a substantial reduction in the population size of exploited fish…”
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‘Pisidian’ culture? The Classical-Hellenistic site at Düzen Tepe near Sagalassus (southwest Turkey) by Vanhaverbeke, H., Waelkens, M., Vyncke, K., De Laet, V., Aydal, S., Mušič, B., De Cupere, B., Poblome, J., Braekmans, D., Degryse, P., Marinova, E., Verstraeten, G., Van Neer, W., Šlapšak, B., Medarič, I., Ekinci, H.A., Erbay, M.O.

“…In 2005, during the annual ‘intensive’ archaeological survey in the peri-urban zone of Sagalassus (Pisidia, southwest Anatolia), the remains of an extensive…”
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Subsistence economy and land use strategies in the Burdur province (SW Anatolia) from prehistory to the Byzantine period by De Cupere, B., Frémondeau, D., Kaptijn, E., Marinova, E., Poblome, J., Vandam, R., Van Neer, W.

“…A reconstruction of the ancient subsistence economy and land use strategies is presented here for the province of Burdur, more specifically the area south and…”
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New Equations for the Size Reconstruction of Sturgeon from Isolated Cranial and Pectoral Girdle Bones by Thieren, E., Van Neer, W.

“…Measurements on cranial and pectoral girdle bones of 56 museum specimens of modern sturgeon (Acipenser sturio and A. oxyrinchus) were used for the…”
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Reconstructing age distribution, season of capture and growth rate of fish from archaeological sites based on otoliths and vertebrae by Van Neer, Wim, Löugas, Lembi, Rijnsdorp, Adriaan D.

“…The growth increments of otoliths and vertebrae of plaice (Pleuronectes platessa) derived from a 15th century single depositional event at Raversijde (Belgium)…”
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First record of the eastern Asiatic gobionid fish Pseudorasbora parva from the Asiatic part of Turkey by Wildekamp, R. H., Van Neer, W., Küçük, F., ÜNlüsayin, M.

“…Pseudorasbora parva is recorded for the first time from southern Anatolia, the Asiatic part of Turkey. Its presence at three locations in the main course of…”
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First inland records of the euryhaline goby Knipowitschia caucasica from lakes in Anatolia, Turkey by Neer, W. Van, Wildekamp, R. H., Küccedel;ük, F., Unlüsayin, M.

“…Knipowitschia caucasica, a euryhaline Ponto‐Caspian‐Aegean gobiid fish, is recorded for the first time from Lakes Eǧirdir, Eber and Demirköprü (Anatolia). Its…”
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Sites with Holocene dung deposits in the Eastern Desert of Egypt: Visited by herders?: 'Palaeoenvironment' in honour of Professor Aharon Horowitz by LINSEELE, V, MARINOVA, E, VAN NEER, W, VERMEERSCH, P. M

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Ancient breeds of domestic fowl ( Gallus gallus f. domestica) distinguished on the basis of traditional observations combined with mixture analysis by De Cupere, Bea, Van Neer, Wim, Monchot, Hervé, Rijmenants, Elina, Udrescu, Mircea, Waelkens, Marc

“…Using a large assemblage of domestic fowl bones from a classical site, a methodology is presented that allows the recognition of breeds. The approach differs…”
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Roman trade relationships at Sagalassos (Turkey) elucidated by ancient DNA of fish remains by Arndt, Allan, Van Neer, Wim, Hellemans, Bart, Robben, Johan, Volckaert, Filip, Waelkens, Marc

“…The excavations of Roman and Early Byzantine contexts at the town of Sagalassos (Turkey) yielded fish remains belonging to species that do not occur near the…”
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An identification key for dermal denticles of Rajidae from the North Sea by Gravendeel, Ronald, Van Neer, Wim, Brinkhuizen, Dick

“…As a result of more systematic fine sieving on archaeological sites, dermal denticles and isolated teeth of rays are now more frequently recovered than before…”
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Beyond affluence: the zooarchaeology of luxury by Ervynck, Anton, Van Neer, Wim, Hüster-Plogmann, Heide, Schibler, Jörg

“…The statement, by the eighteenth-century economist Adam Smith, that luxuries are all things that are not necessities is too simplistic an approach to be useful…”
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