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Active Whaling, Opportunistic Scavenging or Long-Distance Trading: Zooarchaeological, Palaeoproteomic, and Historical Analyses on Whale Exploitation and Bone Working in Anglo-Saxon Hamwic
van den Hurk, Youri; Riddler, Ian; McGrath, Krista; Speller, Camilla (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)THE ANGLO-SAXON SITE OF HAMWIC (modern Southampton, Hampshire, UK) has been identified as a major bone-working centre. Besides antler and terrestrial mammal bone, cetacean bone has been recovered in high quantities. These ... -
Archaeological evidence of resource utilisation of the great whales over the past two millennia: A systematic review protocol
Buss, Danielle Lia; van den Hurk, Youri; Falahati-Anbaran, Mohsen; Elliott, Deirdre; Evans, Sally; Frasier, Brenna A.; Mulville, Jacqueline A.; Rankin, Lisa K.; Stebergløkken, Heidrun Marie Voldheim; Whitridge, Peter; Barrett, James Harold (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)Archaeological faunal remains provide key insights into human societies in the past, alongside information on previous resource utilisation and exploitation of wildlife populations. The great whales (Mysticete and sperm ... -
Archaeological evidence of resource utilisation of the great whales over the past two millennia: A systematic review protocol
Buss, Danielle Lia; van den Hurk, Youri; Falahati-Anbaran, Mohsen; Elliott, Deirdre; Evans, Sally; Frasier, Brenna A.; Mulville, Jacqueline A.; Rankin, Lisa K.; Stebergløkken, Heidrun Marie Voldheim; Whitridge, Peter; Barrett, James Harold (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)Archaeological faunal remains provide key insights into human societies in the past, alongside information on previous resource utilisation and exploitation of wildlife populations. The great whales (Mysticete and sperm ... -
Archaeological evidence of resource utilisation of walrus, Odobenus rosmarus, over the past two millennia: A systematic review protocol
Buss, Danielle Lia; Dierickx, Katrien Alfred C; Falahati-Anbaran, Mohsen; Elliot, Deirdre; Rankin, Lisa K.; Whitridge, Peter; Frasier, Brenna; Richard, Jean-Simon; van den Hurk, Youri; Barrett, James Harold (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)The walrus, Odobenus rosmarus, is an iconic pinniped and predominant molluscivore that is well adapted to Arctic and subarctic environments. Its circumpolar distribution, large body size and ivory tusks facilitated its ... -
Grouping groupers in the Mediterranean: Ecological baselines revealed by ancient proteins
Winter, Rachel M.; de Kock, Willemien; Mackie, Meaghan; Ramsøe, Max; Desiderà, Elena; Collins, Matthew; Guidetti, Paolo; Presslee, Samantha; Alegre, Marta Munoz; Oueslati, Tarek; Muniz, Arturo Morales; Michailidis, Dimitris; van den Hurk, Youri; Taurozzi, Alberto J.; Çakirlar, Canan (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)Marine historical ecology provides a means to establish baselines to inform current fisheries management. Groupers (Epinephelidae) are key species for fisheries in the Mediterranean, which have been heavily overfished. ... -
Prehistoric and historic exploitation of marine mammals in the Black Sea
Aiken, Magie; Gladilina, Elena; Çakırlar, Canan; Telizhenko, Serhii; van den Hurk, Youri; Bejenaru, Luminita; Tange Olsen, Morten; Gol'din, Pavel (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)The recent exploitation of marine species is relatively well documented and understood in terms of impacts on species abundance, distribution, and resource use. In contrast, ancient exploitation of marine mammals remains ... -
The prelude to industrial whaling: Identifying the targets of ancient European whaling using zooarchaeology and collagen mass-peptide fingerprinting
van den Hurk, Youri; Sikström, Fanny; Amkreutz, Luc; Bleasdale, Madeleine; Borvon, Aurélia; Ephrem, Brice; Fernández-Rodríguez, Carlos; Gibbs, Hannah M. B.; Jonsson, Leif; Lehouck, Alexander; Cedeira, Jose Martínez; Meng, Stefan; Monge, Rui; Moreno, Marta; Nabais, Mariana; Nores, Carlos; Pis-Millán, José Antonio; Riddler, Ian; Schmölcke, Ulrich; Segschneider, Martin; Speller, Camilla; Vretemark, Maria; Wickler, Stephen Kent; Collins, Matthew; Nadeau, Marie-Josee; Barrett, James Harold (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)Taxonomic identification of whale bones found during archaeological excavations is problematic due to their typically fragmented state. This difficulty limits understanding of both the past spatio-temporal distributions ... -
Sea turtle shells in the Netherlands: Zooarchaeology by mass spectrometry and stable isotope analysis identify species and provenance
de Kock, Willemien; van den Hurk, Youri; Dreshaj, Merita; Ramsøe, Max; Dee, Michael; Taurozzi, Alberto J.; Palsbøll, Per J.; Çakırlar, Canan (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)Sea turtles (Cheloniidae) are extremely rare in the Northern European archaeological record; however, sporadic finds have occurred. Here we used bioarchaeological tools to investigate two archaeological sea turtle specimens ... -
Testing osteometric species determination on zooarchaeological dolphin remains from Late Neolithic and Early Bronze Age sites in Ash-Sharqiyyah, Sultanate of Oman
van den Hurk, Youri; Bormetti, Matteo; Maini, Elena (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)Different Late Neolithic and Early Bronze Age sites located in the Ras al-Hadd cape and Ras al-Jinz Bay area (Ash-Sharqiyyah South Governorate, Sultanate of Oman) have provided thousands of zooarchaeological dolphin remains ...