Post on 25-Feb-2016
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One step forward and two steps back: archaeology, DNA and the infantilization of research
Umberto AlbarellaDept. of Archaeology
The University of Sheffield, UK
Lizzie Wright’s PhD (University of Sheffield) will try to revise aurochs morphology and biometry
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Comparison of Bos measurements from Mesolithic, Early Neolithic and Late Neolithic sites.
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Comparison of Bos astragalus measurements from the Mesolithic, Early Neolithic and Late Neolithic in Britain (Bd = breadth of the distal end, GLm = greatest medial length), after von den Driesch (1976).
PhD workbySarah Viner (Universityof Sheffield)
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Bos postcranial measurements from Mesolithic sites.
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Bos postcranial measurements from Early Neolithic sites.
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Bos postcranial meaurements from Late Neolithic Durrington Walls.
n = 299mean = -0.18
PhD workbySarah Viner (Universityof Sheffield)
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Grotta della Madonna (Calabria)Upper PalaeolithicN=14 mean=0.055
Grotta dell’Uzzo (Sicily)Mesolithic+TransitionN=57 mean=0.44
Grotta dell’Uzzo (Sicily)Early NeolithicN=19 mean=0.024
Conelle (Marche)EneolithicN=237 mean=0.061
PIG POSTCRANIAL BONES
Domestic pigs Wild boar
La Marmotta (Latium)Early NeolithicN=22 mean=0.060
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PhD workbyAngelos Hadjikoumis and Sarah Viner(University of Sheffield)
What to do?
• Integration must become more meaningful
• There must be equal respect for all forms of investigation
• Malpractice needs to be exposed
• Intellectual independence must be paramount
• Responsibility is always individual, never collective