Hormones and bile acids as biomarkers for the characterization of animal management in prehistoric sheepfold caves: El Mirador case (Sierra de Atapuerca, Burgos, Spain)

Read more by Asier Vallejoa, Jaime Geaa, Ane Gorostizu-Orkaiztegia, Josep Maria Vergès, Patricia Martín, M. Carmen Sampedro, Alicia Sánchez-Ortega, M. Aranzazu Goicolea, Ramón J.Barrio. Published on Journal of Archaeological Science. February 2022

Ancient DNA-based sex determination of bison hide moccasins indicates Promontory cave occupants selected female hides for footwear

Read more by Sabrina Shirazia, Nasreen Broomandkhoshbacht, Jonas Oppenheimer, Jessica Z.Metcalfe, Rob Found, John W.Ives, Beth Shapiro. Published on Journal of Archaeological Science. January 2022

Fishing over the millennia: zooarchaeological perspectives

Read more by Harry K. Robson & Kenneth Ritchie Published on Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences. 19 February 2022

A newly recognized theropod assemblage from the Lewisville Formation (Woodbine Group; Cenomanian) and its implications for understanding Late Cretaceous Appalachian terrestrial ecosystems

Read more by Christopher R. Noto​, Domenic C. D’Amore, Stephanie K. Drumheller, Thomas L. Adams. Published on PeerJ. 25 January 2022

The Mesozoic terminated in boreal spring

Read more by Melanie A. D. During, Jan Smit, Dennis F. A. E. Voeten, Camille Berruyer, Paul Tafforeau, Sophie Sanchez, Koen H. W. Stein, Suzan J. A. Verdegaal-Warmerdam & Jeroen H. J. L. van der Lubbe. Published on Nature. 23 February 2022

A skeleton from the Middle Jurassic of Scotland illuminates an earlier origin of large pterosaurs

Read more by Natalia Jagielska, Michael O’Sullivan, Gregory F. Funston, Ian B. Butler, Thomas J. Challands, Neil D.L. Clark, Nicholas C. Fraser, Amelia Penny, Dugald A. Ross, Mark Wilkinson, Stephen L. Brusatte. Published on Current Biology. 22 February 2022

The woolly rhinoceros (Coelodonta antiquitatis) from Ondorkhaan, eastern Mongolia

Read more by Naoto Handa, Masami Izuho, Keiichi Takahashi, Fumie Iizuka, Batmunkh Tsogtbaatar, Byambaa Gunchinsuren, Davakhuu Odosuren, Lochin Ishitseren. Published on Boreas. 31 January 2022

The first fossil record of a bone assemblage accumulated by New World vultures (Gruta do Presépio, Holocene, southern Brazil)

Read more by Fernando Ballejo, Patrícia Hadler, Jorge J. Cherem, Lucas Bueno, Juliana S. Machado, Alejandra B. Matarrese, Fernando J. Fernández. Published on Boreas. 17 January 2022

Hunting before herding: A zooarchaeological and stable isotopic study of suids (Sus sp.) at Hardinxveld-Giessendam, the Netherlands (5450–4250 cal BC)

Read more by Nathalie Ø. Brusgaard, Michael W. Dee, Merita Dreshaj, Jolijn Erven, Youri van den Hurk, Daan Raemaekers, Canan Çakırlar. Published on Plos One. 02 February 2022

Livestock faecal indicators for animal management, penning, foddering and dung use in early agricultural built environments in the Konya Plain, Central Anatolia

Read more by Marta Portillo, Aroa García-Suárez & Wendy Matthews. Published on Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences. 18 January 2020

The genetic identity of the earliest human-made hybrid animals, the kungas of Syro-Mesopotamia

Read more by E. Andrew Bennett, Jill Weber, Wjden Bendhafer, Sophie Champlot, Joris Peters, Glenn M Schwartz, Thierry Grange and Eva-maria Geigl. Published on Science Advances. 14 January 2022

More than meat? Examining cattle slaughter, feasting and deposition in later 4th millennium BC Atlantic Europe: A case study from Kilshane, Ireland

Read more by Fabienne Pigière, Finbar Mc Cormick, Lilly Olet, Dermot Moore, Finola O’Carroll, JessicaSmyth. Published on Journal of Archaeological Science. 07 January 2022

In search of the ‘great horse’: A zooarchaeological assessment of horses from England (AD 300–1650)

Read more by Carly Ameen, Hélène Benkert, Tamsyn Fraser, Rébecca Gordon, Mathilde Holmes, Will Johnson, Malene Lauritsen, Mark Maltby, Karina Rapp, Tess Villeneuve, et al. Published on International Journal of Osteoarchaeology. 31 August 2021

Animal husbandry between the Roman times and the High Middle Ages in central Europe: a biometrical analysis of cattle, sheep and pig

Read more by Idoia Grau-Sologestoa, Francesca Ginella, Elisabeth Marti-Grädel, Barbara Stopp & Sabine Deschler-Erb. Published on Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences. 30 September 2021

A Carboniferous synapsid with caniniform teeth and a reappraisal of mandibular size-shape heterodonty in the origin of mammals

Read more by Adam K. Huttenlocker, Suresh A. Singh, Amy C. Henrici and Stuart S. Sumida. Published on The Royal Society. 15 December 2021

Trophic niche overlap between coyotes and gray foxes in a temperate forest in Durango, Mexico

Read more by César Ricardo Rodríguez-Luna, Jorge Servín, David Valenzuela-Galván, Rurik List. Published on Plos One. 01 December 2021

First osteohistological and histotaphonomic approach of Equus occidentalis Leidy, 1865 (Mammalia, Equidae) from the late Pleistocene of Rancho La Brea (California, USA)

Read more by Rodrigo Leandro Tomassini, María Dolores Pesquero, Mariana Carolina Garrone, María Dolores Marin-Monfort, Ignacio Alejandro Cerda, José Luis Prado, Claudia Inés Montalvo, Yolanda Fernández-Jalvo, María Teresa Alberdi. Published on Plos One. 28 December 2021

The largest arthropod in Earth history: insights from newly discovered Arthropleura remains (Serpukhovian Stainmore Formation, Northumberland, England)

Read more by Neil S. Davies, Russell J. Garwood, William J. McMahon, Joerg W. Schneider and Anthony P. Shillito. Published on Journal of the Geological Society. 21 December 2021

Fast-running theropods tracks from the Early Cretaceous of La Rioja, Spain

Read more by Pablo Navarro-Lorbés, Javier Ruiz, Ignacio Díaz-Martínez, Erik Isasmendi, Patxi Sáez-Benito, Luis Viera, Xabier Pereda-Suberbiola & Angélica Torices. Published on Scientific Reports. 09 December 2021

Investigating the influence of temperature and seawater δ18O on Donax obesulus (Reeve, 1854) shell δ18O

Read more by Jacob P.Warner, Kristine L.DeLong, David Chicoin, Kaustubh Thirumalai, C. Fred T.Andrus. Published on Chemical Geology. 20 January 2022

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