Books by Angelos Hadjikoumis
Daujat, J., Hadjikoumis, A., Berthon, R., Chahoud, J., Kassianidou, V., & Vigne, J.-D. (Eds.). (2021). Archaeozoology of Southwest Asia and Adjacent Areas XIII: Proceedings of the Thirteenth International Symposium, University of Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus, June 7-10, 2017. Lockwood Press. Daujat, J., Hadjikoumis, A., Berthon, R., Chahoud, J., Kassianidou, V., & Vigne, J.-D. (Eds.). (2021). Archaeozoology of Southwest Asia and Adjacent Areas XIII: Proceedings of the Thirteenth International Symposium, University of Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus, June 7-10, 2017 (Vol. 3). Lockwood Press., 2021
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Hadjikoumis A., Robinson E. and Viner S. (eds.) (2011) The dynamics of neolithisation in Europe: studies in honour of Andrew Sherratt. Oxford: Oxbow Books., 2011
Dynamics of Neolithisation examines the development of early agriculture in Neolithic Europe, dra... more Dynamics of Neolithisation examines the development of early agriculture in Neolithic Europe, drawing on the work of the late Professor Andrew Sherratt. His untimely death coincided with an important period of research that moved beyond searching for singular causal mechanisms behind the "neolithisation" of Europe in favour of developing a better understanding of the complex interrelationships of cultural, ecological, economic and social factors. Andrew Sherratt's work is significant because it developed models for integrating the different evidential components and analytical scales involved in the prehistoric development of European agriculture. The essays in this volume examine such significant factors as plant and animal domestication, social organisation, the development of monumental architecture, exchange and social identity and the cultural transmission of technology.
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Digital Zooarchaeology: State of the art, challenges, prospects and synergies. , 2022
Digital technologies are an increasingly pervasive medium for zooarchaeological scholarship, prov... more Digital technologies are an increasingly pervasive medium for zooarchaeological scholarship, providing a means to document and preserve fragile zooarchaeological specimens, share primary data, address methodological questions, and spread the information to the wider public. During the last decade, a broad array of digital technologies has been widely applied for the creation of three-dimensional images of animal bones, with a number of freely accessible collections being developed and published online. To be beneficial for academic and non-academic audiences, the creation of these collections requires careful planning, and more attention is needed in order to ensure their longevity in the web as well as their future usability. Drawing on an online workshop, organised by the Science and Technology in Archaeology and Culture Research Center of The Cyprus Institute, titled "Zooarchaeology in the Digital Era", this article aims to provide a snapshot of the current state of art, and the methods and digital tools being employed in the digitisation of animal remains. The article also raises some of the challenges that the international zooarchaeological community is facing in the era of Linked Open Data, including management, archiving, curation, storage, dissemination and communication of digital data to the scientific world and the wider public. In addition, the paper highlights the need for a stronger collaboration between archaeologists and researchers from the Digital Humanities' sector in order to stimulate an innovative discourse and create fertile ground for the production of new scientific knowledge.
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Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports
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Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, 2022
Digital technologies are an increasingly pervasive medium for zooarchaeological scholarship, prov... more Digital technologies are an increasingly pervasive medium for zooarchaeological scholarship, providing a means to document and preserve fragile zooarchaeological specimens, share primary data, address methodological questions, and spread the information to the wider public. During the last decade, a broad array of digital technologies has been widely applied for the creation of three-dimensional images of animal bones, with a number of freely accessible collections being developed and published online. To be beneficial for academic and non-academic audiences, the creation of these collections requires careful planning, and more attention is needed in order to ensure their longevity in the web as well as their future usability. Drawing on an online workshop, organised by the Science and Technology in Archaeology and Culture Research Center of The Cyprus Institute, titled "Zooarchaeology in the Digital Era", this article aims to provide a snapshot of the current state of art, and the methods and digital tools being employed in the digitisation of animal remains. The article also raises some of the challenges that the international zooarchaeological community is facing in the era of Linked Open Data, including management, archiving, curation, storage, dissemination and communication of digital data to the scientific world and the wider public. In addition, the paper highlights the need for a stronger collaboration between archaeologists and researchers from the Digital Humanities' sector in order to stimulate an innovative discourse and create fertile ground for the production of new scientific knowledge.
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Hadjikoumis et al (2019) Autumn/winter births in traditional and Pre-Pottery Neolithic caprine husbandry in Cyprus: evidence from ethnography and stable isotopes, 2019
Highlights
• Sequential oxygen isotope analysis in enamel reveals caprine birth patterns in PP... more Highlights
• Sequential oxygen isotope analysis in enamel reveals caprine birth patterns in PPNB Cyprus.
• PPNB caprines were breeding outside their wild ancestors’ restricted season.
• Autumn/winter births in PPNB caprines echo a similar pattern in traditional Cypriot husbandry.
• The distribution of births reflects adaptation to the Mediterranean precipitation regime.
• The ability of caprines to quickly adapt to new environments enables potentially fast diffusion of domestic caprines.
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SUBARTU 6-7 (2013) 23-57, 2013
This paper was published in SUBARTU, the journal of the Union of Archaeologists of the Kurdistan ... more This paper was published in SUBARTU, the journal of the Union of Archaeologists of the Kurdistan Region in Iraq. It presents the preliminary report of the excavation seasons 2011 and 2012 in Tell Nader, as well as the preparatory work for the excavation in Tell Baqrta, which started in 2013. Most of the team members contributed to this report: the introduction and the presentation of the excavation results in Tell Nader was written by K. Kopanias (pp. 23-27), C. Beuger discussed the pottery finds (pp. 27-29), A. Livarda the plant remains (pp. 29-30), A. Chatzikoumis the animal bones (pp. 30-32), S. Fox the human remains (p. 32), G. Kourtessi-Philippaki the stone tools (pp. 32-33), and T. Carter presented the results of the obsidian analyis (pp. 33-36). In addition, Tell Baqrta is discussed by K. Kopanias (pp. 36-37) and the relevant written sources by J. MacGinnis (pp. 37-40).
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Journal of Anthropological Archaeology, Jan 1, 2012
Archaeological interpretations are interwoven with analogical reasoning. This paper presents a la... more Archaeological interpretations are interwoven with analogical reasoning. This paper presents a large volume of ethnographic data on traditional pig husbandry in modern Iberia and discusses their zooarchaeological importance. Europe-based ethnoarchaeological studies on traditional pig husbandry (e.g., in Sardinia/Corsica and Greece) have only recently made their appearance and have been proved environmentally and geographically more relevant than similar studies carried out in Asia. This paper presents archaeologically relevant data on a great variety of themes such as pig morphology, adaptation in and exploitation of environment, herd size and composition, the relations between wild and domestic populations, castration, breeding, genetic diversity, slaughtering practices, age-at-death, home range, control and movements, diet, weight, agricultural damage and products. The results show that traditional systems of animal husbandry do survive in Europe and their study widens and improves our interpretative framework. This Iberian-based study showed that domestic pig morphology is the combined result of the breeder’s selection and the pig’s adaptation to a given environment and husbandry system. Moreover, scale is a crucial factor significantly affecting all other aspects of a husbandry system.
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Animal remains represent some of the most common finds at archaeological sites. Together with pla... more Animal remains represent some of the most common finds at archaeological sites. Together with plant remains they constitute the most direct evidence for subsistence, as well as economic and social organisation in the past. As it is the case with the recovery of all archaeological materials discussed in this guide, the choices made in the field concerning sampling, recovery, documentation, recording and storage of animal remains heavily affect the quantity and quality of data extracted from them through study and analysis. This chapter serves as a basic practical guide for field archaeologists excavating such remains, focusing specifically on the island of Cyprus. The particularities of the island, including climate and environment and their effects on animal bone preservation are taken into consideration. Rather than being a comprehensive text on zooarchaeology in general, this guide focuses on methods used in the field for the recovery of bones, as well as their post-excavation treatment, analysis, and storage in order to facilitate and enhance their study by specialists.
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Archaeozoology of Southwest Asia and Adjacent Areas XIII, 2021
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Zooarchaeological interpretation inevitably relies on analogical reasoning. In many cases, the an... more Zooarchaeological interpretation inevitably relies on analogical reasoning. In many cases, the analogies employed as interpretative aids are of ethnographic nature. Zooarchaeology in particular has been heavily reliant on ethnographic studies to inform its interpretative framework, especially on animal husbandry practices. The majority of published relevant studies, however, concern highly specialised pastoralists in large-scale systems. Husbandry practices on smaller scales, especially in mixed agro-pastoral systems, are less documented ethnographically. The scarcity of ethnographic analogies covering such practices is detrimental to zooarchaeological interpretation, as scale is a fundamental characteristic of any animal husbandry system that influences many other of its aspects. This paper constitutes an effort to address this gap through an ethnozooarchaeological study of, now extinct, medium-scale traditional caprine husbandry practices in 20th century Cyprus. Data collected thr...
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Hadjikoumis A. (2017) Age-at-death in Cypriot traditional sheep and goat husbandry: implications for zooarchaeology. In P. Rowley-Conwy, P. Halstead and D. Serjeantson (eds.) Economic Zooarchaeology: Studies in Hunting, Herding and Early Agriculture, Chapter: 15, 126-134 Oxford: Oxbow Books., 2017
Conclusions
This ethnozooarchaeological study of age-at-death has opened a window onto the strate... more Conclusions
This ethnozooarchaeological study of age-at-death has opened a window onto the strategies employed by Cypriot sheep/goat herders, which in turn open up a range of interpretative options to zooarchaeologists. First, it has improved the potential of evaluating the age-at-death in the youngest age intervals (0–6 months) based on the proportions of sheep and goat. Age-at-death of the youngest cohorts should shift upwards by a month or two, if goats are in the majority, and downwards, with a majority of sheep. A complicating factor is the goat’s
multiparity, which inflates the proportions of kids to lambs but may also promote the culling of some kids before weaning to relieve breeding goats and/or increase milk production.
Secondly, the striking difference in age-at-death between rams (10+ years) and bucks (1–3 years) should be borne in mind in the interpretation of ancient age profiles, even if male animals usually have a minimal effect due to their low numbers. Thirdly, when a traditional system is disrupted by the introduction of new breeds and technological improvements, a change towards overall younger age-at-death for adult animals and higher losses to disease and climatic adversity is likely. Fourthly, the style of husbandry affects the growth rates of animals and
thus possibly the age at which an animal acquires the desired weight for slaughter or reaches the end of its prime productive age. Broadly speaking, sheep and goats under intensive/stationary systems achieve production thresholds at an earlier age than under extensive/mobile regimes. This should be taken into account, where feasible, before mechanically applying published models of sheep/goat exploitation to archaeological age profiles. Fifthly, the exploitation of feral populations in parallel to domestic introduces significant biases depending on the modes and aims of each system.
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Hadjikoumis A. (2018) A Late Roman faunal assemblage found in Amathus harbour. In Empereur J.-Y. (ed.) The Hellenistic harbour of Amathus underwater excavations, 1984-1986. Volume 2, Artefacts found during excavation. Études Chypriotes XX, 197-210. Athens: École Française d'Athènes., 2018
CONCLUSION
This study, despite the limitations of the sample on which it is based, contributes v... more CONCLUSION
This study, despite the limitations of the sample on which it is based, contributes valuable information on the human-animal relationship for a period that was little known previously. The small sample analysed cannot support many definitive conclusions but nevertheless, several issues can be addressed. The taxonomic composition constitutes a rare glimpse into late 6th/early 7th century AD Amathus and shows that the animal economy was heavily domestic. It was based on two main pylons, sheep/goat and cattle husbandry, mainly for meat and dairy products but other uses (e.g. production of hides or wool) cannot be excluded, given the evidence of installations for hide processing nearby. Beyond these, the presence of a variety of other animals opens up a window into everyday life in Late Roman Amathus. It is clear that the inhabitants made use of the draught power of donkey, mule and possibly horse and cattle for transportation, construction and potentially agricultural tasks. Moreover, the identification of remains of a ‘toy’ breed of dog suggests that subsistence was not the only concern of at least some of the inhabitants who sought after the company of such dogs for various social reasons. The presence of shepherd or guard dogs, chicken and marine fish remains offers additional insights into everyday life in an urban environment during late 6th/early 7th centuries ad Cyprus.
Beyond the novel archaeological knowledge produced by this study, it has also been productive in generating new questions and working hypotheses to be addressed whenever new relevant faunal assemblages become available. For example, the question of the relationship between the urban centre and the agricultural hinterland surrounding Amathus should be addressed with more adequate samples. Moreover, a more precise estimation of the economic significance of different components of animal economy (e.g. domestic mammals, bird husbandry, hunting, fishing, and secondary products) is highly desirable. Currently, everyday life in Late Roman Cyprus is poorly understood. It is anticipated that this study will not remain an exception and will promote further research leading to a thorough understanding of the period.
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Hadjikoumis A. (2018) The macrofaunal assemblage of Alepotrypa cave. In A. Papathanasiou, W.A. Parkinson, D.J. Pullen, M.L. Galaty and P. Karkanas (eds.) Neolithic Alepotrypa cave in the Mani, Greece, 272-305. Oxford & Philadelphia: Oxboow Books., 2018
Hadjikoumis, A. (2018) The macrofaunal assemblage of Alepotrypa Cave. In A. Papathanasiou, W. A. ... more Hadjikoumis, A. (2018) The macrofaunal assemblage of Alepotrypa Cave. In A. Papathanasiou, W. A. Parkinson, D. J. Pullen, M. L. Galaty and P. Karkanas (eds.) Neolithic Alepotrypa cave in the Mani, Greece: 272-305. Oxbow, Oxford & Philadelphia.
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Hadjikoumis, A. (2018) Ethnoarchaeology as a means of improving integration: an ethnozooarchaeolo... more Hadjikoumis, A. (2018) Ethnoarchaeology as a means of improving integration: an ethnozooarchaeological study from Cyprus and its contribution to the integration of zooarchaeology with archaeobotany and other lines of archaeological evidence. In E. Pişkin, A. Marciniak and M. Bartkowiak (eds) Environmental Archaeology: current theoretical and methodological approaches: 181-198. Springer, Cham.
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Η έρευνα και η μελέτη των ευρημάτων του οικισμού της Πρώιμης Εποχής του Χαλκού στο Κορωπί, καθώς ... more Η έρευνα και η μελέτη των ευρημάτων του οικισμού της Πρώιμης Εποχής του Χαλκού στο Κορωπί, καθώς και η σύγκρισή του με παράλληλες χρονολογικά θέσεις της Αττικής, μαρτυρεί την ύπαρξη μίας άρτια οργανωμένης αγροκτηνοτροφικής κοινωνίας με στοιχεία εξειδίκευσης και υψηλής τεχνογνωσίας όσον αφορά στην παραγωγή τροφής, στη κατασκευή και διανομή εργαλείων προετοιμασίας της, αλλά και τους τρόπους κατανάλωσής της, καθώς και το βαθμό που αυτή συνδέεται με την άσκηση της κτηνοτροφίας. Η ανέρευση μεγάλης ποσότητας λίθινων εργαλείων από υλικά ηφαιστειακής προέλευσης καθώς και το πλούσιο ζωοαρχαιολογικό υλικό, σε συνδυασμό με τα υπόλοιπα ευρήματα της ανασκαφής, αποτελούν το αντικείμενο της παρούσας μελέτης που στόχο έχει, μέσω της τυπολογίας των συγκεκριμένων ευρημάτων, αλλά και τη χρήση μακροσκοπικών και αναλυτικών τεχνικών, να ανασυσταθούν τα διαφορετικά στάδια της τροφοπαραγωγικής διαδικασίας του αρχαίου οικισμού καθώς και οι κοινωνικο-οικονομικές πτυχές που αυτή μαρτυρά.
Πληροφορίες για την παραγωγή της τροφής, τα τροφοπαρασκευαστικά στάδια αλλά και για τις αγροτικές πρακτικές και τις επιλογές συγκεκριμένων ειδών για κατανάλωση προέρχονται από τα φυτικά κατάλοιπα. Η συνδυαστική μελέτη των λίθινων εργαλείων και των οργανικών καταλοίπων καθώς και του ζωοαρχαιολογικού υλικού θα φωτίσει την οργάνωση τόσο της παραγωγής όσο και της κατανάλωσης τροφής και της καθημερινότητας στην Πρώιμη Εποχή του Χαλκού.
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Hadjikoumis A. (2011) ‘Pig-menting’ the Spanish Neolithic. In A. Hadjikoumis, E. Robinson and S. Viner (eds.) The dynamics of neolithisation in Europe: studies in honour of Andrew Sherratt, 196-230. Oxford: Oxbow Books., 2011
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• Sequential oxygen isotope analysis in enamel reveals caprine birth patterns in PPNB Cyprus.
• PPNB caprines were breeding outside their wild ancestors’ restricted season.
• Autumn/winter births in PPNB caprines echo a similar pattern in traditional Cypriot husbandry.
• The distribution of births reflects adaptation to the Mediterranean precipitation regime.
• The ability of caprines to quickly adapt to new environments enables potentially fast diffusion of domestic caprines.
Book chapters by Angelos Hadjikoumis
This ethnozooarchaeological study of age-at-death has opened a window onto the strategies employed by Cypriot sheep/goat herders, which in turn open up a range of interpretative options to zooarchaeologists. First, it has improved the potential of evaluating the age-at-death in the youngest age intervals (0–6 months) based on the proportions of sheep and goat. Age-at-death of the youngest cohorts should shift upwards by a month or two, if goats are in the majority, and downwards, with a majority of sheep. A complicating factor is the goat’s
multiparity, which inflates the proportions of kids to lambs but may also promote the culling of some kids before weaning to relieve breeding goats and/or increase milk production.
Secondly, the striking difference in age-at-death between rams (10+ years) and bucks (1–3 years) should be borne in mind in the interpretation of ancient age profiles, even if male animals usually have a minimal effect due to their low numbers. Thirdly, when a traditional system is disrupted by the introduction of new breeds and technological improvements, a change towards overall younger age-at-death for adult animals and higher losses to disease and climatic adversity is likely. Fourthly, the style of husbandry affects the growth rates of animals and
thus possibly the age at which an animal acquires the desired weight for slaughter or reaches the end of its prime productive age. Broadly speaking, sheep and goats under intensive/stationary systems achieve production thresholds at an earlier age than under extensive/mobile regimes. This should be taken into account, where feasible, before mechanically applying published models of sheep/goat exploitation to archaeological age profiles. Fifthly, the exploitation of feral populations in parallel to domestic introduces significant biases depending on the modes and aims of each system.
This study, despite the limitations of the sample on which it is based, contributes valuable information on the human-animal relationship for a period that was little known previously. The small sample analysed cannot support many definitive conclusions but nevertheless, several issues can be addressed. The taxonomic composition constitutes a rare glimpse into late 6th/early 7th century AD Amathus and shows that the animal economy was heavily domestic. It was based on two main pylons, sheep/goat and cattle husbandry, mainly for meat and dairy products but other uses (e.g. production of hides or wool) cannot be excluded, given the evidence of installations for hide processing nearby. Beyond these, the presence of a variety of other animals opens up a window into everyday life in Late Roman Amathus. It is clear that the inhabitants made use of the draught power of donkey, mule and possibly horse and cattle for transportation, construction and potentially agricultural tasks. Moreover, the identification of remains of a ‘toy’ breed of dog suggests that subsistence was not the only concern of at least some of the inhabitants who sought after the company of such dogs for various social reasons. The presence of shepherd or guard dogs, chicken and marine fish remains offers additional insights into everyday life in an urban environment during late 6th/early 7th centuries ad Cyprus.
Beyond the novel archaeological knowledge produced by this study, it has also been productive in generating new questions and working hypotheses to be addressed whenever new relevant faunal assemblages become available. For example, the question of the relationship between the urban centre and the agricultural hinterland surrounding Amathus should be addressed with more adequate samples. Moreover, a more precise estimation of the economic significance of different components of animal economy (e.g. domestic mammals, bird husbandry, hunting, fishing, and secondary products) is highly desirable. Currently, everyday life in Late Roman Cyprus is poorly understood. It is anticipated that this study will not remain an exception and will promote further research leading to a thorough understanding of the period.
Πληροφορίες για την παραγωγή της τροφής, τα τροφοπαρασκευαστικά στάδια αλλά και για τις αγροτικές πρακτικές και τις επιλογές συγκεκριμένων ειδών για κατανάλωση προέρχονται από τα φυτικά κατάλοιπα. Η συνδυαστική μελέτη των λίθινων εργαλείων και των οργανικών καταλοίπων καθώς και του ζωοαρχαιολογικού υλικού θα φωτίσει την οργάνωση τόσο της παραγωγής όσο και της κατανάλωσης τροφής και της καθημερινότητας στην Πρώιμη Εποχή του Χαλκού.
• Sequential oxygen isotope analysis in enamel reveals caprine birth patterns in PPNB Cyprus.
• PPNB caprines were breeding outside their wild ancestors’ restricted season.
• Autumn/winter births in PPNB caprines echo a similar pattern in traditional Cypriot husbandry.
• The distribution of births reflects adaptation to the Mediterranean precipitation regime.
• The ability of caprines to quickly adapt to new environments enables potentially fast diffusion of domestic caprines.
This ethnozooarchaeological study of age-at-death has opened a window onto the strategies employed by Cypriot sheep/goat herders, which in turn open up a range of interpretative options to zooarchaeologists. First, it has improved the potential of evaluating the age-at-death in the youngest age intervals (0–6 months) based on the proportions of sheep and goat. Age-at-death of the youngest cohorts should shift upwards by a month or two, if goats are in the majority, and downwards, with a majority of sheep. A complicating factor is the goat’s
multiparity, which inflates the proportions of kids to lambs but may also promote the culling of some kids before weaning to relieve breeding goats and/or increase milk production.
Secondly, the striking difference in age-at-death between rams (10+ years) and bucks (1–3 years) should be borne in mind in the interpretation of ancient age profiles, even if male animals usually have a minimal effect due to their low numbers. Thirdly, when a traditional system is disrupted by the introduction of new breeds and technological improvements, a change towards overall younger age-at-death for adult animals and higher losses to disease and climatic adversity is likely. Fourthly, the style of husbandry affects the growth rates of animals and
thus possibly the age at which an animal acquires the desired weight for slaughter or reaches the end of its prime productive age. Broadly speaking, sheep and goats under intensive/stationary systems achieve production thresholds at an earlier age than under extensive/mobile regimes. This should be taken into account, where feasible, before mechanically applying published models of sheep/goat exploitation to archaeological age profiles. Fifthly, the exploitation of feral populations in parallel to domestic introduces significant biases depending on the modes and aims of each system.
This study, despite the limitations of the sample on which it is based, contributes valuable information on the human-animal relationship for a period that was little known previously. The small sample analysed cannot support many definitive conclusions but nevertheless, several issues can be addressed. The taxonomic composition constitutes a rare glimpse into late 6th/early 7th century AD Amathus and shows that the animal economy was heavily domestic. It was based on two main pylons, sheep/goat and cattle husbandry, mainly for meat and dairy products but other uses (e.g. production of hides or wool) cannot be excluded, given the evidence of installations for hide processing nearby. Beyond these, the presence of a variety of other animals opens up a window into everyday life in Late Roman Amathus. It is clear that the inhabitants made use of the draught power of donkey, mule and possibly horse and cattle for transportation, construction and potentially agricultural tasks. Moreover, the identification of remains of a ‘toy’ breed of dog suggests that subsistence was not the only concern of at least some of the inhabitants who sought after the company of such dogs for various social reasons. The presence of shepherd or guard dogs, chicken and marine fish remains offers additional insights into everyday life in an urban environment during late 6th/early 7th centuries ad Cyprus.
Beyond the novel archaeological knowledge produced by this study, it has also been productive in generating new questions and working hypotheses to be addressed whenever new relevant faunal assemblages become available. For example, the question of the relationship between the urban centre and the agricultural hinterland surrounding Amathus should be addressed with more adequate samples. Moreover, a more precise estimation of the economic significance of different components of animal economy (e.g. domestic mammals, bird husbandry, hunting, fishing, and secondary products) is highly desirable. Currently, everyday life in Late Roman Cyprus is poorly understood. It is anticipated that this study will not remain an exception and will promote further research leading to a thorough understanding of the period.
Πληροφορίες για την παραγωγή της τροφής, τα τροφοπαρασκευαστικά στάδια αλλά και για τις αγροτικές πρακτικές και τις επιλογές συγκεκριμένων ειδών για κατανάλωση προέρχονται από τα φυτικά κατάλοιπα. Η συνδυαστική μελέτη των λίθινων εργαλείων και των οργανικών καταλοίπων καθώς και του ζωοαρχαιολογικού υλικού θα φωτίσει την οργάνωση τόσο της παραγωγής όσο και της κατανάλωσης τροφής και της καθημερινότητας στην Πρώιμη Εποχή του Χαλκού.
From the main four domesticates (cattle, sheep, goat, and pig), the pig has only
recently attracted scientific interest worthy of its archaeological importance.
Synthetic works studying wild or domestic pigs in European regions such as
Italy, Sardinia/Corsica and Poland have provided important insights often
missed by site-focused zooarchaeological reports. This thesis constitutes the
first study focusing on pigs and their interactions with humans in Spain from
pre-Neolithic times until the Iron Age. Crucial archaeological issues addressed
include, when and how pig domestication occurred, how it was integrated in the
neolithisation of Iberia, and how it evolved in post-Neolithic periods. The
relationships between humans and wild boar as well as between domestic pigs
and their wild counterparts are also explored.
A large volume of biometric data on postcranial and dental elements, combined
with age and sex data of pig populations, allow reliable analyses and wellinformed
interpretations. These data are explored graphically and described to
refine the picture of prehistoric pig populations in Spain and generate inferences
on their relationship with humans. Biometric data from other countries and
ethnoarchaeological data of traditional pig husbandry practices from southwest
Iberia and other Mediterranean regions are analysed to enhance the
interpretational value of the Spanish zooarchaeological data.
The results support the appearance of domestic pigs from the early 6th
millennium cal. BC in most parts of Spain and suggest ample diversity in early
pig husbandry practices. By the end of the Neolithic, domestic pigs were
present across Spain and more important than hunted wild boar. From the
Late/Final Neolithic onwards, domestic pigs were morphologically
distinguishable from wild boar on population level. The data also suggest an
increase in wild boar hunting in the Bronze Age followed by further
intensification of pig management in the Iron Age. Possible explanations and
implications of these findings are discussed.
Resumen
Entre las cuatro especies domésticas principales (bovino, ovino, caprino y
porcino), el cerdo sólo recientemente ha atraído un interés arqueológico
equivalente a su importancia en nuestro pasado. En algunas zonas de Europa
como Italia, Cerdeña, Córcega y Polonia obras de síntesis centradas en suidos
han generado nuevas aportaciones que normalmente se escapan de estudios
zooarqueológicos centrados en yacimientos específicos. Esta tésis constituye
el primer estudio que se enfoca hacia el cerdo y sus interacciones con grupos
humanos en España desde tiempos pre-Neolíticos hasta la Edad del Hierro.
Entre los asuntos arqueológicos tratados en esta tésis se incluyen preguntas
como: cuándo y en qué manera ocurrió la domesticación del cerdo, cómo se
integró en el proceso de neolitización en la península ibérica, y cuál fue la
evolución de este proceso en períodos post-Neolíticos. También se exploran
las relaciones entre humanos y jabalí, así como entre jabalí y cerdo.
El gran volumen de datos biométricos postcraniales y dentales combinado con
los datos sobre la estructura demográfica (edad y sexo) de poblaciones de
cerdos permiten análisis fidedignos e interpretaciones fiables. Estos datos se
analizan gráficamente y se describen extensivamente para refinar nuestro
conocimiento del cerdo en España durante la prehistoria y generar inferencias
sobre su relación con humanos. Datos biométricos de otros países así como
datos etnoarqueológicos sobre la cría tradicional de cerdos Ibéricos en el
suroeste de la península y otras regiones mediterráneas, se analizan para
aumentar el valor interpretativo de los datos zooarqueológicos desde España.
Los resultados apoyan la aparición de cerdos domésticos en el séptimo milenio
cal. a.C. en la mayor parte de España y sugieren una amplia diversidad en las
prácticas ganaderas relacionadas con cerdos. Antes del final del Neolítico, el
cerdo doméstico se encontraba por toda España y desempeñaba un papel más
importante que su homólogo salvaje (jabalí). Desde el Neolítico Tardío/Final,
cerdos domésticos eran morfológicamente distinguibles del jabalí al nivel de
población. Los datos también sugieren un incremento en la caza del jabalí en la
Edad de Bronce seguida de una intensificación de la cabaña porcina en la
Edad del Hierro. Las posibles explicaciones e implicaciones de estos hallazgos
se discuten extensivamente en esta tesis.
Deadline for abstract submission: 30th of November 2021
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