Outputs (14)

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..

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.

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".

Both introduced and extinct: The fallow deer of Roman Mallorca (2016)
Journal Article
Lamb, A., Valenzuela, A., Baker, K., Carden, R. F., Evans, J., Higham, T., …Sykes, N. (2016). Both introduced and extinct: The fallow deer of Roman Mallorca. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, 9, 168-177. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2016.06.038

The archaeological record concerning the distribution and timing of fallow deer translocation across the Mediterranean has been growing in the last years. This knowledge has provided important insights into the movement, trade patterns and ideology o... Read More about Both introduced and extinct: The fallow deer of Roman Mallorca.

Zootherapy in archaeology: the case of the fallow deer (Dama dama dama) (2016)
Journal Article
Miller, H., & Sykes, N. (2016). Zootherapy in archaeology: the case of the fallow deer (Dama dama dama). Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine, 36(2), https://doi.org/10.2993/0278-0771-36.2.257

The abundant anthropological and historical evidence for animal-based medicine, or zootherapy, suggests that animals are, and have always been, perceived as important components in maintaining human health and well-being. Despite being interwoven int... Read More about Zootherapy in archaeology: the case of the fallow deer (Dama dama dama).

DamaDentition: A New Tooth Eruption and Wear Method for Assessing the Age of Fallow Deer (Dama dama): Tooth Eruption and Wear Method for Assessing Fallow Deer age (2016)
Journal Article
Bowen, F., Carden, R., Daujat, J., Grouard, S., Miller, H., Perdikaris, S., & Sykes, N. (2016). DamaDentition: A New Tooth Eruption and Wear Method for Assessing the Age of Fallow Deer (Dama dama): Tooth Eruption and Wear Method for Assessing Fallow Deer age. International Journal of Osteoarchaeology, 26(6), 1089-1098. https://doi.org/10.1002/oa.2523

Reliable ageing techniques for wild animals are notoriously challenging to develop because of the scarcity of sizeable collections of known‐age specimens. Without such techniques it is difficult to reconstruct hunting patterns, which is a significant... Read More about DamaDentition: A New Tooth Eruption and Wear Method for Assessing the Age of Fallow Deer (Dama dama): Tooth Eruption and Wear Method for Assessing Fallow Deer age.