Lo scavo, svoltosi nel 2009 presso il sito di Via Tommaso Gar a Trento sotto la direzione della Soprintendenza per i Beni Culturali per la Provincia Autonoma di Trento, ha restituito una cospicua quantità di materiale faunistico, sulla quale è stata condotta un’analisi archeozoologica e tafonomica. Il materiale proviene da un edificio situato nell’area suburbana della Tridentum di epoca romana, la cui fase d’uso relativa all’insieme faunistico analizzato è databile al I-II secolo d.C. Lo scopo della ricerca è stato quello di indagare le abitudini alimentari e di sussistenza della popolazione locale, nonché verificare la presenza di attività produttive in situ per quanto riguarda l’industria su osso.

We conducted an analysis in April 2000 on a sample of osteological remains (258 cranial bones and teeth and 15 fragments of plastrons) of non-volant vertebrates recovered from the Roman site of Vicus Augustanus (1st century A.D. - 4th century A.D.) within the area of the extant presidential preserve of Castelporziano (Rome). Domestic mammals (96%) represent most of the identified remains (n=242). Among wild vertebrates we determined the presence of tortoises, hares, and red deer. Some of these species were also confirmed by MacKinnon in two unpublished reports of 2004 and 2010. We have compared the data obtained with those relating to the wild vertebrates currently present in the preserve.

Presentamos el análisis morfométrico y osteopatológico de tres perros de talla pequeña (32-38 cm) y robustos, con deformaciones en las diáfisis y epífisis (condrodistrofia) y en el foramen magnum. Provienen de diferentes yacimientos del noreste peninsular. El más antiguo se localizó en un silo del yacimiento ibero-romano, Serrat dels Espinyers (Isona, Lleida), datado a finales del s. III y la primera mitad del s. II a.C. Dos más modernos se documentaron en yacimientos romanos: uno en la necrópolis CR Empúries (L’Escala, Girona), fechada en la segunda mitad del s. II d.C. y otro en el yacimiento de Can Verboom (Premià de Dalt, Barcelona), datado a finales del s. IV d.C. Estos casos incrementan de forma importante los individuos diagnosticados hasta ahora para este período en esta área geográfica. Sus características morfológicas permiten clasificarlos entre los perros enanos más robustos y pesados que se documentan dentro de la variabilidad canina europea a partir de la colonización romana. Su excepcionalidad se debe a la escasa información actual sobre este tipo de perro en el territorio peninsular. A su vez, este trabajo evalúa sus posibles usos, y se presentan unas aproximaciones preliminares a su caracterización genética. La posible consanguinidad de estas poblaciones puede explicar la permanencia de alguna patología genética vinculada al enanismo: la condrodisplasia.

Se presenta un estudio preliminar de los restos faunísticos del recinto fortificado de época islámica del Tossal de la Vila (Serra d’en Galceran, Castellón) recuperados durante los trabajos arqueológicos realizados entre 2012 y 2020. El yacimiento está situado en la intersección entre el territorio de Tortosa, Valencia y las últimas estribaciones del Sistema Ibérico, y en época andalusí presenta fases de ocupación desde finales del siglo VIII hasta la primera mitad del siglo X. El estudio revela como la mayoría de los restos identificados provienen de animales domésticos, entre los cuales los caprinos (ovejas y cabras) y las gallinas dominan absolutamente la muestra frente a una meramente testimonial presencia de ganado vacuno y porcino. Los restos de caza por su parte representan un porcentaje ínfimo, con presencia de conejos y ciervos. La proporción equilibrada de ovejas y cabras parece sugerir que ambas especies tendrían el mismo peso en los rebaños locales, en contraste con el dominio generalizado de las ovejas en la mayoría de los contextos andalusíes. Por otra parte, la representación anatómica caprina y la estimación de los perfiles de sacrificio permiten conocer los patrones de consumo de la población asentada en este singular enclave. Además, los resultados brindan la oportunidad de realizar una investigación preliminar del vector ganadero en la economía rural del Šarq al-Andalus.

In 2014 due to the projected layout of the Madrid – Jaén high-speed railway line, a preventive archaeological intervention was carried out on a hill near the Guadalbullón riverbed within the farmland of Grañena Baja (Jaén). During the work, a multi-sequential Late Prehistory occupation, starting from the mid-5th millennium and reaching the end of the 3rd millennium, was documented. The phase corresponding to the last quarter of the 4th and the beginning of the 3rd millennium Cal BC stands out for the presence of circular features containing complete or partial human and domestic animal skeletal remains, in some cases, clearly related. The isotopic values of human collagen are relatively homogeneous (?15N = 9.0 ± 0.6; ?13C = -18.9 ± 0.4) and consistent with a diet based on proteins of animal origin.

Se presentan y discuten los resultados del análisis zooarqueológico de 37 sitios arqueológicos del Valle de Mauro (31º57`S-71º01`O, ~900 msnm), emplazado en la franja meridional del Norte Semiárido del actual territorio chileno. Estos sitios abarcan una secuencia cronológica y cultural que va desde el Arcaico Tardío (ca. 3.400 años cal AP en adelante) hasta ocupaciones históricas, enfatizando la secuencia prehispánica asociada a eventos del Período Alfarero Temprano (El Molle), Intermedio Tardío (Diaguita) y Periodo Tardío (Inca). Nuestros resultados indican un consumo intensivo de camélidos (Lama guanicoe) durante el Arcaico que desciende drásticamente en sincronía con la aparición de la cerámica y prácticas hortícolas en el valle. Hacia momentos Diaguita y con prácticas agrícolas consolidadas junto a la aparición de camélidos domésticos (Lama glama), proponemos la necesidad de repensar a estos grupos con prácticas pastoriles trashumantes condicionadas por los ciclos de pasturas en el Semiárido, tal como se observa para momentos históricos.

The origin and development of the Iberian Medieval fisheries is a poorly documented phenomenon both from the standpoint of historical (documentary) and material (archaeological) evidence. Such dearth of knowledge can be explained in terms of proximal (i.e., a deficient retrieval of fish remains) and ultimate causes. Among the latter, the Muslim invasion, that lasted ca. 800 years of the “medieval millennium” in the Iberian Peninsula, needs to be taken into account as it probably delayed the development of fishing fleets within the Christian kingdoms for a substantial period of time. Be it as it may, the lack of knowledge does not allow one to explore a range of critical issues of Spanish and Portuguese history, such as the role played by the ever-expanding fishing fleets of Portugal and Castilla in the process of maritime discovery and colonization that these two kingdoms fostered by the end of the Middle Ages. In this paper, the results from a comparative analysis of selected fish assemblages from primary (i.e. coastal) deposits of the northern Iberian shores are presented. The aim is to check whether changes can be documented both at the level of (1) the range of species occurring in sites from the late Iron Age (Castreña culture, IV-I BC) to the Late Middle Ages (XV AD), and (2) the skeletal spectra of certain species that could reveal a differential processing of taxa meant for local consumption and those that appear in inland sites.

The Main Square of the city of Tourcoing (France) underwent excavations in 1982. The dig revealed a shallow pit filled up with fish skeletons still bearing their scales. The excava- tor bulk sampled the entire filling of this AD 15th-16th century feature, and in 2016 the materials were sieved and analyzed in the zooarchaeology laboratory of the University of Lille. Over a hundred haddock skeletons, representing complete specimens between 35-71 cm (total length) were identified. The contemporaneous archives of the cities of Lille and Douai shed light on the common practice of the discard and burial of fish improper for sale and may provide an expla- nation to our unusual discovery. The paper describes how fish markets operated and the type of controls imposed upon fishmongers. Examples of violations to the rule, seizures and trials recorded in the local archives will be described.

Sharks teeth are abundant in Brazilian coastal archaeological sites. The interac- tion between natives and sharks, including the capture and differentiated use of this resource, however, has been little discussed probably due to the lack of consistent material evidences and methodologies of analysis that supports more elaborate inferences. In the face of gaps in the data obtained for archaeological contexts, the use of travelling chroniclers’ accounts of sixteenth and seventeenth centuries as a rich source of information is a common methodology among social scientists who study the past. The objective of this article is to present the reports available in the traveller’s literature about the interaction between native groups of the south and southeast Brazilian coast and sharks, demonstrating their importance as useful data sources for discussions on the matter.

Based on an analysis of the existing literature on complex pre-Hispanic societies in Colombia and taking as an example the results of some archaeological research in particular, this article analyzes the contribution that zooarchaeological studies have had to the understand- ing and analysis of models proposed to explain sociocultural changes from a broad temporal perspective. It is concluded that, at present, although there is clearly a greater awareness of the need to involve multiple lines of evidence to study this topic, and on the important contribution of disciplines such as zooarchaeology to the interpretation of these processes, its potential is still underutilized. This is because there is usually no articulation from the beginning of the inves- tigations between zooarchaeological questions and archaeological questions in general, and on the other hand, due to the inescapable task of taking precautions and methodological corrections that implies recognizing that zooarchaeological samples are the reflection of a multiplicity of moments and processes that must be investigated in the context of the different sites, in order to avoid biases of interpretation and in turn to potentiate the scope of their contributions.