ARCHAEOFAUNAPub Date : 2019-12-17DOI: 10.15366/archaeofauna2019.28.003
D. Mastrángelo, Patricia A. Lobbia, A. S. Muñoz
{"title":"Estudio tafonómico del sitio arqueológico Yegua Quemada 3, Holoceno medio, Patagonia meridional","authors":"D. Mastrángelo, Patricia A. Lobbia, A. S. Muñoz","doi":"10.15366/archaeofauna2019.28.003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15366/archaeofauna2019.28.003","url":null,"abstract":"En este trabajo se presentan los resultados del analisis tafonomico efectuado en el deposito Yegua Quemada 3, Parque Nacional Monte Leon, con una ubicacion cronologica correspondiente al Holoceno medio (5360 ± 20 anos AP). Los resultados muestran que el material arqueomalacolo- gico se encuentra en un proceso de degradacion avanzado, resultado de periodos de exposicion, indicados por la perdida de color, pero tambien de enterramiento, indicado por la perdida de las capas externas y la dureza de las valvas. Los restos de vertebrados muestran asimismo la importancia que los procesos bioestratinomicos y diageneticos tuvieron en la historia deposita- cional del conjunto. Las superficies oseas estan afectadas de manera homogenea, lo que indica exposicion a condiciones subaereas. El conjunto artefactual litico presenta evidencias de haber pasado por periodos de exposicion subaerea, evidenciado por la abrasion eolica y periodos de enterramiento, mostrado por el desarrollo de un revestimiento de carbonato. El conjunto de evi- dencias considerado y las variables tafonomicas analizadas permiten concluir que el deposito YQ3 brinda informacion adecuada para discutir la ocupacion humana al sur del rio Santa Cruz en un bloque temporal, el Holoceno medio, periodo para el cual se cuenta con limitada informacion.","PeriodicalId":44490,"journal":{"name":"ARCHAEOFAUNA","volume":"28 1","pages":"39-49"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-12-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49378364","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ARCHAEOFAUNAPub Date : 2019-12-17DOI: 10.15366/archaeofauna2019.28.002
Isabel Cruz, B. Ercolano, Clara R. Lemaire
{"title":"Antes de la interpretación: Análisis geoarqueológico y tafonómico de P 35 (Santa Cruz, Argentina)","authors":"Isabel Cruz, B. Ercolano, Clara R. Lemaire","doi":"10.15366/archaeofauna2019.28.002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15366/archaeofauna2019.28.002","url":null,"abstract":"A traves del analisis geoarqueologico y tafonomico de P 35, un deposito de tipo conchero o conchal ubicado en la costa del sur de Patagonia continental, se aborda su historia de formacion y se evalua la calidad de la informacion arqueologica que puede brindar. La compa- racion de aerofotografias e imagenes satelitales entre 1968 y 2012, con controles periodicos en campo, permitio establecer la evolucion del paisaje en este sector costero, detectar el inicio de un proceso erosivo que expuso gran cantidad de depositos arqueologicos y establecer la secuencia de desestructuracion de P 35 durante las ultimas decadas. Las modificaciones de los especimenes oseos (fracturas, trazas de raices, de abrasion, danos por carnivoros y roedores, modificaciones antropicas y meteorizacion) son consistentes con lo determinado a partir del analisis geoarqueo- logico. Se concluye que los restos arqueologicos de P 35 fueron sepultados rapidamente (por sedimentos o por las valvas que conformaban la lente), luego el deposito se estabilizo por un lapso indeterminado y durante las ultimas decadas se fue exponiendo paulatinamente. Los restos de vertebrados indican que es un deposito con alta integridad (sensu Binford, 2001) y buena resolucion temporal.","PeriodicalId":44490,"journal":{"name":"ARCHAEOFAUNA","volume":"28 1","pages":"27-38"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-12-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42799497","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ARCHAEOFAUNAPub Date : 2019-01-29DOI: 10.15366/archaeofauna2017.26.007
Jordi Nadal i Lorenzo
{"title":"Conchylia y cocleae: transformaciones en la percepción culinaria de los moluscos durante la romanización del Noreste peninsular","authors":"Jordi Nadal i Lorenzo","doi":"10.15366/archaeofauna2017.26.007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15366/archaeofauna2017.26.007","url":null,"abstract":"Este trabajo plantea las diferencias en la percepcion culinaria de los moluscos, terrestres y marinos entre los periodos iberico (prerromano) y romano en el nordeste de la Peninsula Iberica. Aunque los datos son por el momento muy escasos, se observa un cambio entre los dos momentos. En el mundo iberico la explotacion de moluscos marinos se limita a la costa y muy escasamente a zonas prelitorales. Los taxones mas explotados son Glycymeris y en menor medida los cardidos y Donax. En el mundo romano, el consumo de moluscos marinos se desliga de la proximidad a la costa y las ostras (Ostrea edulis) se vuelven la especie mas consumida, aunque tambien aumenta la diversidad de especies explotadas, generalmente muricidos (Bolinus, Hexaplex, Stramonita). Tambien observamos la generalizacion del consumo de moluscos terrestres (Otala punctata). El colapso del mundo romano supondra la vuelta a algunas tradiciones anteriores por lo que respecta al consumo de moluscos.","PeriodicalId":44490,"journal":{"name":"ARCHAEOFAUNA","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42411036","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ARCHAEOFAUNAPub Date : 2019-01-29DOI: 10.15366/ARCHAEOFAUNA2017.26.010
P. G. Calatayud
{"title":"Restos de micromamíferos identificados en dos conjuntos de época romana: Valentia (la Almoina, València) y la Calerilla de Hortunas (Requena)","authors":"P. G. Calatayud","doi":"10.15366/ARCHAEOFAUNA2017.26.010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15366/ARCHAEOFAUNA2017.26.010","url":null,"abstract":"Presentamos el estudio de dos agregados osiferos de micromamiferos de epoca romana. Los conjuntos reflejan un proceso tafonomico de formacion diferente. El de la Almoina esta relacionado con la etologia de Mustela nivalis (comadreja), y el de la Calerilla con la muerte natural. Por otra parte, a partir de los requerimientos ecologicos de las distintas especies documentadas, hemos intentado caracterizar las condiciones climaticas de cada yacimiento.","PeriodicalId":44490,"journal":{"name":"ARCHAEOFAUNA","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47418751","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ARCHAEOFAUNAPub Date : 2019-01-29DOI: 10.15366/ARCHAEOFAUNA2017.26.012
M. Moreno-Garcia, Carlos M. Pimenta, María Fátima Palma
{"title":"Recursos cinegéticos y ganaderos en Myrtilis (Mértola, Portugal) en los inicios de la Romanización: una aportación desde la Arqueozoología","authors":"M. Moreno-Garcia, Carlos M. Pimenta, María Fátima Palma","doi":"10.15366/ARCHAEOFAUNA2017.26.012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15366/ARCHAEOFAUNA2017.26.012","url":null,"abstract":"Here we present the analysis of the faunal assemblage recovered during the archaeological excavations carried out in the Biblioteca Municipal of Mertola (Alentejo, Portugal). The samples studied are dated to the Late Iron Age and the Roman Republic periods. It is outstanding the high frequency of red deer (Cervus elaphus) and the dominance of porcine remains, among which some wild boar (Sus scrofa) may be present. This trend increases towards the change of Era. The data demostrates the importance of hunting resources in the local economy and the limited role played by livestock husbandry, in particular as far as cattle and caprines are concerned. With the aim of evaluting the impact of Romanization at regional and inter-regional levels results are discussed taking into account socio-economic and environmental issues.","PeriodicalId":44490,"journal":{"name":"ARCHAEOFAUNA","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41762517","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ARCHAEOFAUNAPub Date : 2019-01-29DOI: 10.15366/archaeofauna2017.26.011
R. Sánchez, J. López, Antonio Moreno Rosa
{"title":"Sacrificio y consumo animal en dos edificios principales de una colonia de la Bética: el macellum y el santuario de Ituci Virtus Iulia (Torreparedones, Baena, Córdoba)","authors":"R. Sánchez, J. López, Antonio Moreno Rosa","doi":"10.15366/archaeofauna2017.26.011","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15366/archaeofauna2017.26.011","url":null,"abstract":"Presentamos el examen de los restos de fauna asociados a dos edificios principales de una colonia de la provincia Betica: el macellum y el santuario ibero-romano excavados en el yacimiento arqueologico de Torreparedones (Baena, Cordoba). Los contextos documentados en el macellum corresponden a acumulaciones relacionadas con la vida activa del mercado. El mas importante, asociado a la Fase II-III del propio edificio, se compone de un extenso vertido en contacto con su muro occidental exterior, conformado en su gran mayoria por restos de bovino, habiendose datado entre la primera mitad del siglo I y el ultimo tercio del II d.C. En cuanto al santuario, los contextos mas interesantes se documentan en suelos formados durante el funcionamiento de un primer templo, a lo largo de los siglos II y I a.C. El estudio de ambos conjuntos cuenta con gran interes, al constituir uno de los escasos trabajos efectuados sobre un edificio comercial y en un santuario de tradicion indigena en el interior de la Betica, integrado en la lectura de la propia evolucion diacronica de ambos edificios y sobre contextos y areas de vertido bien definidas.","PeriodicalId":44490,"journal":{"name":"ARCHAEOFAUNA","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44155410","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ARCHAEOFAUNAPub Date : 2019-01-29DOI: 10.15366/ARCHAEOFAUNA2017.26.008
Silvia Albizuri, Jordi Nadal, C. Belmonte, I. Garcés
{"title":"Los efectos de la romanización en la gestión ganadera: la cabaña equina de Serrat dels Espinyers (Lérida) como ejemplo de la cría mular en la Península Ibérica","authors":"Silvia Albizuri, Jordi Nadal, C. Belmonte, I. Garcés","doi":"10.15366/ARCHAEOFAUNA2017.26.008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15366/ARCHAEOFAUNA2017.26.008","url":null,"abstract":"In this work, we study the bone remains of 32 equid individuals, dated among 3rd-2nd centuries BC. They were deposited, sometimes the complete carcass, in diverse pits from Serrat dels Epinyers, a site related with production and storage of crop surplus, close to the place where the roman town of Aeso was built.The morphometric study has been done according published works about osteological differences among equids. It allows us to distinguish three groups: horses, asses and finally a group where we can observe horse-like characteristics and ass-like characteristics as well and we must classify as hybrids. That is a novelty in the animal husbandry of the second Iron Age in the Iberian Peninsula.The anomalous quantity of specimens located and the evidence of hybridation practices among the equine herds have indicated a specialized and efficient husbandry that would be kept for burden transport, probably related with the presence of Roman troops and the necessity to supply more important urban centres.","PeriodicalId":44490,"journal":{"name":"ARCHAEOFAUNA","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43950957","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ARCHAEOFAUNAPub Date : 2019-01-29DOI: 10.15366/archaeofauna2017.26.006
Idoia Grau-Sologestoa, J. A. Castillo
{"title":"Peasant economy in Late Roman Alava: Zooarchaeology of Zornoztegi","authors":"Idoia Grau-Sologestoa, J. A. Castillo","doi":"10.15366/archaeofauna2017.26.006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15366/archaeofauna2017.26.006","url":null,"abstract":"Zornoztegi is a rural settlement located in the Alava plateau (Basque Country, Spain), and it was occupied between the Bronze Age and the Late Middle Ages. During a recent archaeological project, a small settlement consisting of two dwellings dated to the 4th-5th centuries was found. The archaeological evidence suggests that this site was probably a small rural settlement dependent on a higher rural centre, perhaps a Roman villa. In this paper, the results of the analysis of the animal remains recovered in this chronological phase are shown. The faunal assemblage is one of the biggest analysed samples dated to the 4th- 5th centuries in the Basque Country. The taxonomic composition, the kill-off patterns, the butchery patterns, the body part frequencies and the biometric data constitute good evidence for understanding peasant economy during Late Roman times. Finally, the faunal evidence will be discussed together with other types of archaeological records for analysing peasant activity in Late Roman Alava.","PeriodicalId":44490,"journal":{"name":"ARCHAEOFAUNA","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43257517","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ARCHAEOFAUNAPub Date : 2019-01-29DOI: 10.15366/archaeofauna2017.26.009
A. Valenzuela, J. Alcover, M. Cau
{"title":"The impact of Roman conquest on the pattern of livestock exploitation on the Balearic Islands","authors":"A. Valenzuela, J. Alcover, M. Cau","doi":"10.15366/archaeofauna2017.26.009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15366/archaeofauna2017.26.009","url":null,"abstract":"The conquest of the Eastern Balearic Islands by the Romans produced a profoundtransformation of the native communities and of their economic system. Whereas several aspects of the local economy at that period are well known, the changes experienced in the patterns of production and consumption of livestock still remain to be deciphered. By studying a series of faunal remains from the two main islands (i.e., Mallorca and Menorca), and focusing on the period spanning from the Iron Age to the Roman transition, we have approached the changes experienced in animal husbandry. Data from a large number of sites from both islands reveal the changes experienced in species composition and body size.","PeriodicalId":44490,"journal":{"name":"ARCHAEOFAUNA","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43005425","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ARCHAEOFAUNAPub Date : 2019-01-29DOI: 10.15366/archaeofauna2017.26.013
S. Davis, J. Vilhena
{"title":"Animal remains from Iron Age and Roman Odemira, Portugal","authors":"S. Davis, J. Vilhena","doi":"10.15366/archaeofauna2017.26.013","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15366/archaeofauna2017.26.013","url":null,"abstract":"Animal remains from excavations of the Iron Age II (end IVth century - early IIIrd century BC) and Roman Republican (Ist century BC) part of a defensive ditch of Odemira hillfort in SW Portugal are described. Most derive from domesticated animals like cattle, goats and pigs, and a hunted animal, red deer. There are two substantial changes between Iron Age and Roman times. The first is a huge increase in the frequency of red deer. This may reflect a rise in the status of the inhabitants. The second is a change in the age-at-slaughter of the cattle: most Iron Age cattle were slaughtered quite young while those in Roman times were not slaughtered until old. This probably reflects a change in the management strategy of cattle. In the Iron Age the emphasis in cattle production was for meat while the Romans kept cattle more for their power and milk. Other animals present include birds, dog, fox, horse, rabbit, and in the Roman period, some marine shells.","PeriodicalId":44490,"journal":{"name":"ARCHAEOFAUNA","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.15366/archaeofauna2017.26.013","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43203350","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}