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List of works by Umberto Albarella

A morphometric system to distinguish sheep and goat postcranial bones

scientific article

A veritable confusion: use and abuse of isotope analysis in archaeology

scientific article

Ancient DNA, pig domestication, and the spread of the Neolithic into Europe

scientific article

Animal Husbandry across the Western Roman Empire: Changes and Continuities

scholarly article by Silvia Valenzuela-Lamas published in July 2017

Animal origin of 13th-century uterine vellum revealed using noninvasive peptide fingerprinting

scientific article

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Building and tanning in the 18th and 19th centuries: an analysis of cattle horncores from Greenwich High Road (London)

article by Lenny Salvagno et al published 2 January 2017 in Post-Medieval Archaeology

Cattle mobility in prehistoric Britain: strontium isotope analysis of cattle teeth from Durrington Walls (Wiltshire, Britain)

scholarly article by Sarah Viner published in November 2010

Correction to: Was the English medieval goat genuinely rare? A new morphometric approach provides the answer

scientific article published on 15 August 2019

Defining bone movement in archaeological stratigraphy: a plea for clarity

scientific article published on 26 July 2015

Depressions on sheep horncores

Distinguishing Wild Boar from Domestic Pigs in Prehistory: A Review of Approaches and Recent Results

article

Exploring the real nature of environmental archaeology

chapter published in 2001

Feeding Stonehenge: cuisine and consumption at the Late Neolithic site of Durrington Walls

article

Materializing Stonehenge

scholarly article by Mike Parker Pearson published in July 2006

Meat Production and Consumption in Town and Country

chapter published in 2005

Medieval and Post-Medieval Mammal and Bird Bones from Launceston Castle, Cornwall: 1961-1982 excavations

report published in 1994

Molecular and osteometric sexing of cattle metacarpals: a case study from 15th century AD Beja, Portugal

article

Multi-isotope analysis reveals that feasts in the Stonehenge environs and across Wessex drew people and animals from throughout Britain

scientific article published on 13 March 2019

Neolithic pigs from Durrington Walls, Wiltshire, England: a biometrical database

scientific article (publication date: April 2005)

Production, Imports and Status: Biological Remains from a Late Roman Farm at Great Holts Farm, Boreham, Essex, UK

S. Giacomo degli Schiavoni (Molise): an early fifth century AD deposit of pottery and animal bones from central Adriatic Italy

article

Size and shape of the Eurasian wild boar (Sus scrofa), with a view to the reconstruction of its Holocene history

Size, power, wool and veal: zooarchaeological evidence for late medieval innovations

article published in 1997

The Late Iron Age and Romano-British mammal and bird bone assemblage from Elms Farm, Heybridge, Essex

scholarly article by Cluny Johnstone published in January 2015

The Saxon, Medieval and Post-Medieval Mammal and Bird Bones Excavated 1989-91 from Castle Mall, Norwich, Norfolk

report published in 1997

The chronology and frequency of a stress marker (linear enamel hypoplasia) in recent and archaeological populations of Sus scrofa in north-west Europe, and the effects of early domestication

scientific article published in 2004

The crested porcupine, Hystrix cristata L., 1758, in Italy

scientific article (publication date: December 2010)

The development of animal husbandry from the Late Iron Age to the end of the Roman period: a case study from South-East Britain

scientific article published in July 2008

The end of the Sheep Age: people and animals in the Late Iron Age

chapter published in 2006

The use of Animals at Roman Roadside Settlements in Britain: Contextualizing some new Results from Ware, Hertfordshire

scientific article

The ‘long’ sixteenth century: a key period of animal husbandry change in England

scientific article published on 5 October 2018

They dined on crane: bird consumption, wildfowling and status in medieval England

article published in 2002

Was the English medieval goat genuinely rare? A new morphometric approach provides the answer

scientific article published in June 2019

Widening the market. Strontium isotope analysis on cattle teeth from Owslebury (Hampshire, UK) highlights changes in livestock supply between the Iron Age and the Roman period

scientific article published in February 2014

Wild Birds of the Italian Middle Ages: Diet, Environment and Society

scientific article published on 3 September 2018

Worldwide phylogeography of wild boar reveals multiple centers of pig domestication

scientific article

Yannis Hamilakis and Philip Duke (eds), Archaeology and Capitalism: From Ethics to Politics. (Walnut Creek, CA: Left Coast Press [One World Archaeology 54], 2007, 352 pp., hbk, ISBN 978 1 59874 270 1)

‘Masseria Quattro Macine’ — a deserted medieval village and its territory in southern Apulia: an interim report on field survey, excavation and document analysis

scholarly article by Paul Arthur et al published November 1996 in Papers of the British School at Rome

‘The mystery of husbandry’: medieval animals and the problem of integrating historical and archaeological evidence

article