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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.