Search publications of the members of the Royal Belgian institute of natural Sciences
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Palaeolithic big game hunting at HP766 in Wadi Umm Rahau, Northern Sudan
- Abstract. HP766, discovered by the Gdansk Archaeological Museum Expedition in the region immediately upstream the Merowe Dam in North Sudan and now under water, is one of the few palaeolithic sites with animal bone remains in the country. The archaeological deposits, the large size of the site, the lithics and the radiocarbon dates indicate occupation of a silt terrace of the Nile in late MSA and LSA times. Large and very large mammals predominate markedly among the recovered bone remains and it would seem that the palaeolithic hunters focused on such game. They could corner these animals on the site which is partially surrounded by high bed rock outcrops. Moreover swampy conditions after the retreat of the annual Nile flood may have rendered less mobile the prey animals. According to this scenario, HP 766 may testify to the ecological skills and generational memory of archaic modern man in Sudan.
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New archaeozoological evidence for the introduction of the guinea pig to Europe
- The remains are described of a guinea pig dated to the end of the 16th - beginning of the 17th c. AD. The animal was discovered at a site in Mons, Belgium, and is the first European archaeozoological find dated with certainty on the basis of both the archaeological context and a radiocarbon dating of its bone. This find confirms that the guinea pig was introduced to Europe soon after the conquest of South America. The morphological and metrical analyses performed on the skeletal remains are in agreement with the iconographic and literary sources indicating the domestic status of the animals imported to Europe. While a previous discovery in England suggested that the guinea pig was a prestigious animal, the present study argues that it was accessible to several classes of the population which may be related to the rapid spread of this prolific animal after its introduction in Europe.
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Bird feathers for ceremonial use in Hellenistic times at Tell Beydar, Syria?
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Fish remains from a latrine in Colonia Ulpia Traiana
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Identification of a 19th century sturgeon from North-East Friesland
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Gent...Steengoed!
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‘Leffinge - Oude Werf’: the first archaeozoological collection from a terp settlement in coastal Flanders
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Counting sheep in the elite cemetery
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Een paleo-ecologische en paleo-economische reconstructie van de site Zilum (NA 97/37) in Noordoost Nigeria (600-400 BC), gebaseerd op dierlijke resten
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Reconstructie van visserij in het verleden aan de hand van visresten uit archeologische opgravingen in België: laatmiddeleeuws Mechelen
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A taphonomic study of the molluscan assemblage of the Early Bronze Age site of Tell Fadous (Lebanon)
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De Gallo-Romeinse vicus van Tienen. Archeozoölogisch onderzoek van de site Zijdelingsestraat
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Characterization of fieldstone for a provenance study of local building stones and artifacts
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Ledesteen en alternatieven
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Gent... Steenroute
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Kaartblad (19-20) Veurne-Roeselare
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Geo-diversity in regions poor in geological exposure but reflected in the built environment: the case of the Flemish region.
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Natuursteen in het museum
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Le cimetière paroissial de Boussu (Hainaut, VIIe - XIXe siècle). Premiers résultats de l’étude anthropologique.
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Morphological and molecular characterisation of Xiphinema zagrosense sp.n. (Dorylaimida: Longidoridae) from the Zagros Mountains, Iran
