Institute of Archaeology

Isotope analysis reveals mobility of the earliest cattle herds in northern Europe

Abstract Human mobility was intrinsic to the farming communities of the Linear Pottery culture (c. 5500 − 4900 BCE). Much less is known about the mobility patterns of the earliest farmers north of the Linear Pottery zone, particularly in the Netherlands. Here, people of the Early...

Zooarchaeology of Houses and Middens: Investigating Patterns of Assemblage Composition at Early Inuit Sites Across the North American Arctic

ABSTRACT This study examines faunal assemblages from paired semisubterranean houses and middens at 10 Early Inuit sites spanning the North American Arctic (ca. 1200–1500 ce ) to evaluate whether local resource bases or other factors primarily structure zooarchaeological variabili...