Outputs (20)

The 10,000-year biocultural history of fallow deer and its implications for conservation policy (2024)
Journal Article
Baker, K. H., Dohert, S., Gray, H. W., Daujat, J., Miller, H., Çakırlar, C., …Sykes, N. (2024). The 10,000-year biocultural history of fallow deer and its implications for conservation policy. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 121(8), Article e2310051121. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.231005112

Over the last 10,000 years, humans have manipulated fallow deer populations with varying outcomes. Persian fallow deer (Dama mesopotamica) are now endangered. European fallow deer (Dama dama) are globally widespread and are simultaneously considered... Read More about The 10,000-year biocultural history of fallow deer and its implications for conservation policy.

The 10,000-year biocultural history of fallow deer and its implications for conservation policy. (2024)
Journal Article
Baker, K. H., Miller, H., Doherty, S., Gray, H. W., Daujat, J., Gray, H. W. I., …Evans, J. A. (2024). The 10,000-year biocultural history of fallow deer and its implications for conservation policy. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 121(8), Article e2310051121. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2310051121

Over the last 10,000 y, humans have manipulated fallow deer populations with varying outcomes. Persian fallow deer (Dama mesopotamica) are now endangered. European fallow deer (Dama dama) are globally widespread and are simultaneously considered wild... Read More about The 10,000-year biocultural history of fallow deer and its implications for conservation policy..

Reconstructing Human-Animal-Environment Relationships at the Edge of the Roman World (2022)
Book Chapter
Miller, H. (in press). Reconstructing Human-Animal-Environment Relationships at the Edge of the Roman World. In Isotope Research in Zooarchaeology : Methods, Applications, and Advances. Florida, USA: Florida University Press

Over the last three decades isotope studies have become a mainstay of archaeological investigations into human diet and mobility. A small comparative sample of faunal remains often underpins these studies, used to create baselines, proxies, and provi... Read More about Reconstructing Human-Animal-Environment Relationships at the Edge of the Roman World.

Archaeological and biometric perspectives on the development of chicken landraces in the Horn of Africa (2019)
Journal Article
Woldekiros, H. S., D'Andrea, A. C., Thomas, R., Foster, A., Lebrasseur, O., Miller, H., …Sykes, N. (2019). Archaeological and biometric perspectives on the development of chicken landraces in the Horn of Africa. International Journal of Osteoarchaeology, 29(5), 728-735. https://doi.org/10.1002/oa.2773

Domestic chickens (Gallus gallus domesticus L., 1758) were integrated into agricultural systems in the Horn of Africa as early as the pre-Aksumite period (c. 2,500 years ago), after they were introduced from Asia through land and maritime trade and e... Read More about Archaeological and biometric perspectives on the development of chicken landraces in the Horn of Africa.

The origins of nomadic pastoralism in the eastern Jordanian steppe: a combined stable isotope and chipped stone assessment (2018)
Journal Article
Miller, H., Baird, D., Pearson, J., Lamb, A., Grove, M., Martin, L., & Garrard, A. (2018). The origins of nomadic pastoralism in the eastern Jordanian steppe: a combined stable isotope and chipped stone assessment. Levant, 50(3), 281-304. https://doi.org/10.1080/00758914.2019.1651560

The circumstances in which domestic animals were first introduced to the arid regions of the Southern Levant and the origins of nomadic pastoralism, have been the subject of considerable debate. Nomadic pastoralism was a novel herd management practic... Read More about The origins of nomadic pastoralism in the eastern Jordanian steppe: a combined stable isotope and chipped stone assessment.

The relationship between the phosphate and structural carbonate fractionation of fallow deer bioapatite in tooth enamel (2018)
Journal Article
Miller, H., Chenery, C., Lamb, A. L., Sloane, H., Carden, R. F., Atici, L., & Sykes, N. (2019). The relationship between the phosphate and structural carbonate fractionation of fallow deer bioapatite in tooth enamel. Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry, 33(2), 151-164. https://doi.org/10.1002/rcm.8324

Rationale The species‐specific relationship between phosphate (δ18OP values) and structural carbonate (δ18OC values) oxygen isotope ratios has been established for several modern and fossil animal species but until now it has not been investigated... Read More about The relationship between the phosphate and structural carbonate fractionation of fallow deer bioapatite in tooth enamel.

Ireland’s fallow deer: their historical, archaeological and biomolecular records (2018)
Journal Article
Beglane, F., Baker, K., Carden, R., Hoelzel, A. R., Lamb, A. L., Fhionnghaile, R. M., …Sykes, N. (2018). Ireland’s fallow deer: their historical, archaeological and biomolecular records. Proceedings- Royal Irish Academy Section C Archaeology Celtic Studies History Linguistics and Literature, 118C, 1-25. https://doi.org/10.3318/priac.2018.118.01

The Anglo-Normans first introduced fallow deer (Dama dama) to Ireland in the thirteenth century, however no biomolecular research has previously been undertaken to examine the timing, circumstances and impact of the arrival of this species. This stud... Read More about Ireland’s fallow deer: their historical, archaeological and biomolecular records.

From icon of empire to national emblem: new evidence for the fallow deer of Barbuda (2017)
Journal Article
Perdikaris, S., Bain, A., Baker, K., Grouard, S., Gonzalez, E., Hoelzel, A. R., …Sykes, N. (in press). From icon of empire to national emblem: new evidence for the fallow deer of Barbuda. Environmental Archaeology, https://doi.org/10.1080/14614103.2017.1349027

Barbuda and Antigua's national animal is the fallow deer, Dama dama dama, a species native to the eastern Mediterranean that has been transported around the world by people during the last 8,000 years. The timing and circumstances by which fallow dee... Read More about From icon of empire to national emblem: new evidence for the fallow deer of Barbuda.

The identification of poultry processing in archaeological ceramic vessels using in-situ isotope references for organic residue analysis (2017)
Journal Article
Colonese, A., Lucquin, A., Guedes, E., Thomas, R., Best, J., Fothergill, B., …Craig, O. (2017). The identification of poultry processing in archaeological ceramic vessels using in-situ isotope references for organic residue analysis. Journal of Archaeological Science, 78, 179-192. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2016.12.006

Poultry products are rarely considered when reconstructing pottery use through organic residue analysis, impinging upon our understanding of the changing role of these animals in the past. Here we evaluate an isotopic approach for distinguishing chic... Read More about The identification of poultry processing in archaeological ceramic vessels using in-situ isotope references for organic residue analysis.

Mirazón Lahr et al. reply (2016)
Journal Article
Lahr, M., Rivera, F., Power, R., Mounier, A., Copsey, B., Crivellaro, F., …Foley, R. (2016). Mirazón Lahr et al. reply. Nature, 539, Article E10-E11. https://doi.org/10.1038/nature19779

Replying to C. M. Stojanowski et al. Nature 539, 10.1038/nature19778 (2016) "Contesting the massacre at Nataruk".