Paleoecology, Taphonomy, Zooarchaeology (PTZ)

A special issue of Animals (ISSN 2076-2615).

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 28 March 2024 | Viewed by 3933

Special Issue Editor

Department of Prehistory, Ancient History and Archaeology, University Complutense, 28040 Madrid, Spain
Interests: zooarchaeology; taphonomy; ecology of wild canids and carnivores; tooth marks; human behavior; prehistoric animals; Neanderthals; megahervibores; Lower and Middle Palaeolihic; Europe

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

The purpose of this collection is to publish high-quality, multidisciplinary, original papers promoting theoretical, methodological and empirical developments in the disciplines of zooarchaeology and taphonomy.

The objective of this collection is to promote the publication of those investigations that deepen our knowledge of human behavior from the analysis of animal remains from the past including Pleistocene and Holocene times. This includes the analysis of different types of animals, such as macromammals, malacofauna, ichthyofauna, herpetofauna or micromammals.

Methodological or experimental actualist studies with an empirical basis that contribute to the knowledge of the societies of the past. Taphonomic studies applied to the fossil record, as well as current experimental taphonomic studies, are also appropriate.

Given that the skeletal remains used in the bone industry or bone art are animal materials that refer to the social and symbolic behavior of the societies of the past, these types of studies are also appropriate to include in this collection.

This collection is aimed at all those zooarchaeologists who study the faunal collections of archaeological sites, as well as those neotaphonomic investigations that seek to generate empirical arguments with which to interpret the fossil record.

Dr. José Yravedra-Sainz de los Terreros
Collection Editor

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Keywords

  • zooarchaeology
  • taphonomy
  • human behavior
  • bone tools
  • Pleistocene
  • Holocene

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Morphological Characteristics of a Horse Discovered in an Avar-Period Grave from Sâncraiu de Mureș (Alba County, Romania)
by Alexandru Gudea, Cristian Martonos, Călin Cosma and Florin Stan
Animals 2022, 12(4), 478; https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.3390/ani12040478 - 15 Feb 2022
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Archeozoological studies provide an insight into human–environment relations, bringing important information on the morphology of the animal and the role of the animal and its functions. The purpose of this study was to reveal the morphological characteristics of the horse identified in an [...] Read more.
Archeozoological studies provide an insight into human–environment relations, bringing important information on the morphology of the animal and the role of the animal and its functions. The purpose of this study was to reveal the morphological characteristics of the horse identified in an 8th century BC Avar cemetery dated, as it resulted from the investigation carried out on the materials presented to the Anatomy Lab of Department of Comparative Anatomy. The cleaning and conditioning of the materials were performed in the lab, followed by anatomical and osteometrical study. The identification of the species, the osteometrical interpretation and the assessment of age at death constituted the basis of the main conclusions. Based on the morphological and metrical data, we concluded that the fragments originated from a single young horse individual (Equus caballus) no older than 2.5 (2–2.5 years age span) included into class 5 of height (Vitt scale) with slender extremities. An overview of the available data (horse morphology) from similar sites in Romania and neighboring territories (Hungary and Croatia) is presented, with the intention of a general framing for the characteristics of the horses used by the Avar populations. Full article
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Planned Papers

The below list represents only planned manuscripts. Some of these manuscripts have not been received by the Editorial Office yet. Papers submitted to MDPI journals are subject to peer-review.

1. Title: Animal life of a Sumerian city during the second half of the 3rd millennium BC. Background and work proposal. 

Author: José Luis Blesa Cuenca 

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