Recent excavations at Pecica Şanţul Mare from 2006-2009 have produced a large and representative faunal assemblage from Dacian and Bronze Age contexts. In both periods, livestock husbandry was by far the most important source of meat, with hunting and trapping game, F shing, and collecting mollusks contributing secondarily. However, there are signiF cant diw erences between Iron and Bronze Age ...

BACKGROUND One of the main concerns for archaeo-metallurgists and archaeologists is to determine to what extent ancient craftsmen understood the effect of metal alloy composition and were able to control it in order to produce objects with the most suitable features. This problem can be investigated by combining compositional analyses of a high number of ancient artefacts with correlation analy...

Humeral morphology has been shown to reflect, in part, habitual manipulative behaviors in humans. Among Central European agricultural populations, long-term social change, increasing task specialization, and technological innovation all had the potential to impact patterns of habitual activity and upper limb asymmetry. However, systematic temporal change in the skeletal morphology of agricultur...