In this technical report, we describe the historic development of the zooarchaeological database OSSOBOOK and the resulting framework XBOOK, a generic infrastructure for distributed, relational data management that is mainly designed for the needs of scientific data. We describe the concepts of the architecture and its most important features. We especially point out the Server–Client architect...

Zooarchaeological and paleoecological investigations have traditionally been unable to reconstruct the ethology of herd animals, which likely had a significant influence on the mobility and subsistence strategies of prehistoric humans. In this paper, we reconstruct the migratory behavior of red deer (Cervus elaphus) and caprids at the Pleistocene-Holocene transition in the northeastern Adriatic...

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Long-distance trade routes criss-crossed ancient Africa and Eurasia. Archaeological research has focused on the commodities in transit excavation of major centres located along these routes, with less attention paid to smaller caravanserai evidence such as rubbish middens. The ‘Incense Route’ linked Arabian Peninsula Red Sea Mediterranean Sea, activity peaking during Nabataean Roman periods. au...

In Iran, studies of the transition from hunting and gathering to farming herding have focused on early developments in Zagros Mountains. Here, authors present new zooarchaeological data Hotu Cave, which throw light sheep/goat management domestication during Epipalaeolithic–Neolithic southern shores Caspian Sea. Gazelle dominate Epipalaeolithic levels, while are most abundant Neolithic. Large qu...

The intensive commercial exploitation of California sheephead (Semicossyphus pulcher) has become a complex, multimillion-dollar industry. The fishery is of concern because of high harvest levels and potential indirect impacts of sheephead removals on the structure and function of kelp forest ecosystems. California sheephead are protogynous hermaphrodites that, as predators of sea urchins and ot...

Today it is not unusual to pick up the latest issue of an archaeology journal such as American Antiquity, or Journal of Archaeological Science, or the like, and to fi nd in the table of contents an article on a topic in zooarchaeology. It is more diffi cult to fi nd a piece on the zooarchaeology of marine mammals. It is equally diffi cult to fi nd an article on some prehistoric aspect of marine...

fundamental importance of evidence in the criminal procedure revealsnecessity of a deep study of that and its principles. one of the progressiveprinciple governing of evidence in criminal procedure, is free proof .that isinvolving free obtaining and evaluation of evidence. according to thisadvanced principle that there are no restriction in presentation andacceptance of evidence unless with sti...