Frontiers in Environmental Archaeology

Original Research

Accepted on 26 Dec 2025

Seasonal and Gendered Patterns in Subsistence Fishing and Shellfish Gathering: Insights from Mfumbwi (Zanzibar) for Archaeological Interpretation and Contemporary Fisheries Management

in Zooarchaeology

Akshay Sarathi
Patrick Faulkner
Benjamin Linzmeier
Abdallah K. Ali
Haji Othman
Ally Ussi

Frontiers in Environmental Archaeology

Editorial

Published on 29 Aug 2025

Editorial: Neanderthal complex behaviour through the lens of faunal resources

in Zooarchaeology

Mariana Nabais
Ruth Blasco

Frontiers in Environmental Archaeology

doi 10.3389/fearc.2025.1668881

1,330 views

Original Research

Published on 17 Jul 2025

Cut from the same cloth? Comparing Neanderthal processing of faunal resources at Amud and Kebara caves (Israel) through cut-marks analyses

in Zooarchaeology

Anaëlle Jallon
Lucile Crété
Silvia M. Bello
Erella Hovers
Rivka Rabinovich

Frontiers in Environmental Archaeology

doi 10.3389/fearc.2025.1575572

7,370 views
1 citation

Original Research

Published on 02 Jul 2025

Fish from the Ōtata midden: change and continuity in pre-European Māori fisheries

in Zooarchaeology

Matthew Campbell
Richard Walter
Armagan Sabetian
Louise Furey
Emma Ash
Andrew McAlister
Jingjing Zhang
Caitlin Haylock

Frontiers in Environmental Archaeology

doi 10.3389/fearc.2025.1565503

1,435 views

Original Research

Published on 01 Jul 2025

Late Neanderthal subsistence and foraging mobility at Lapa do Picareiro: a zooarchaeological and taphonomic analysis of Level JJ

in Zooarchaeology

Milena Carvalho
Jonathan A. Haws
Emily Lena Jones

Frontiers in Environmental Archaeology

doi 10.3389/fearc.2025.1545249

2,096 views

Original Research

Published on 18 Jun 2025

Neanderthal had a “crush” on fats. Macronutrient estimation in Middle Paleolithic (Late Mousterian) hunter-gatherers of southern Italy

in Zooarchaeology

Jacopo Crezzini
Alessandra Modi
Costanza Cannariato
David Caramelli
Annamaria Ronchitelli
Paolo Boscato
Adriana Moroni
Francesco Boschin

Frontiers in Environmental Archaeology

doi 10.3389/fearc.2025.1558698

3,233 views

Original Research

Published on 20 May 2025

Ungulates and carnivores from the late MIS-5 Neanderthal occupation of Gruta da Figueira Brava (Portugal)

in Zooarchaeology

Mariana Nabais
João Zilhão

Frontiers in Environmental Archaeology

doi 10.3389/fearc.2025.1564495

1,587 views

Original Research

Published on 08 May 2025

Adapting to rapidly transforming seascapes in the Mid- to Late Holocene, southeastern Australia

in Zooarchaeology

Ashleigh J. Rogers
David M. Kennedy
Bruno David
Russell Mullett
Joanna Fresløv
Fiona Petchey
Lee J. Arnold
Martina Demuro
GunaiKurnai Land and Waters Aboriginal Corporation
Cheryl Drayton

Frontiers in Environmental Archaeology

doi 10.3389/fearc.2025.1548062

2,637 views

Original Research

Published on 14 Apr 2025

Management of South American camelids in the eastern Andes of Northwestern Argentina: a comparative study of archaeological cases in the last two millennia

in Zooarchaeology

Enrique Moreno
Celeste Samec
Luis Manuel del Papa
Constanza Taboada
Pablo Mercolli
Rodrigo Nores
Stefanie Schirmer
Noel Amano

Frontiers in Environmental Archaeology

doi 10.3389/fearc.2025.1552292

1,964 views
1 citation

Original Research

Published on 03 Mar 2025

Hunters of the “Mediterranean Triad”: persistent and intensive exploitation of faunal resources during the Late Middle Pleistocene at Cueva del Ángel (Lucena, Spain)

in Zooarchaeology

José A. Solano-García
Anne-Marie Moigne

Frontiers in Environmental Archaeology

doi 10.3389/fearc.2025.1517568

2,229 views

Original Research

Published on 10 Feb 2025

Ichthyoarchaeological perspectives on roles of fish and red meat during Indus Civilization in Gujarat, India

in Zooarchaeology

G. S. Abhayan
Pramod P. Joglekar
P. Ajithprasad
S. V. Rajesh
Pankaj Goyal
Brad Chase
Jeevan Kharakwal
Prabodh Shirvalkar

Frontiers in Environmental Archaeology

doi 10.3389/fearc.2025.1517351

3,753 views
2 citations

Original Research

Published on 27 Jan 2025

Three thousand years of oyster fisheries: a view from Southeast Queensland, Australia

in Zooarchaeology

Tam Smith

Frontiers in Environmental Archaeology

doi 10.3389/fearc.2025.1517380

2,373 views

Original Research

Published on 13 Nov 2024

Indigenous use and conservation of harbor seals (Phoca vitulina) at Yakutat, Alaska since the sixteenth century

in Zooarchaeology

Aron L. Crowell
Judith Daxootsú Ramos
Michael A. Etnier

Frontiers in Environmental Archaeology

doi 10.3389/fearc.2024.1494479

9,169 views

Original Research

Published on 25 Oct 2024

Alternating carnivore and Neanderthal activities at Escoural Cave: insights from the taphonomic and machine learning analysis of leporid remains

in Zooarchaeology

Lucía Cobo-Sánchez
Anna Rufà
João Cascalheira

Frontiers in Environmental Archaeology

doi 10.3389/fearc.2024.1473266

3,192 views
3 citations

Original Research

Published on 20 Sep 2024

Neanderthal exploitation of birds in north-western Europe: Avian remains from Scladina Cave (Belgium)

in Zooarchaeology

Quentin Goffette
Veerle Rots
Grégory Abrams
Stéphane Pirson
Kévin Di Modica
Fabrice Bray
Dries Cnuts
Dominique Bonjean
Linda Amos

Frontiers in Environmental Archaeology

doi 10.3389/fearc.2024.1441926

5,692 views
4 citations

Original Research

Published on 24 Jul 2024

Experimental replication of early human behaviour in bird preparation: a pilot-study focusing on bone surface modification and breakage patterns

in Zooarchaeology

Mariana Nabais
Anna Rufà
Marina Igreja

Frontiers in Environmental Archaeology

doi 10.3389/fearc.2024.1411853

6,621 views
3 citations

Original Research

Published on 09 May 2024

Neanderthal resilience and adaptability: insights from the Abric Pizarro faunal assemblage during the MIS 4

in Zooarchaeology

Eboni Westbury
Sofía Samper Carro
Susana Vega Bolivar
Jezabel Pizarro
Jorge Martínez-Moreno
Rafael Mora

Frontiers in Environmental Archaeology

doi 10.3389/fearc.2024.1405535

2,849 views
1 citation

Original Research

Published on 11 Dec 2023

Early husbandry practices in highland areas during the Neolithic: the case of Coro Trasito cave (Huesca, Spain)

in Zooarchaeology

Vanessa Navarrete
Angel Viñerta
Ignacio Clemente-Conte
Ermengol Gassiot
Javier Rey Lanaspa
Maria Saña

Frontiers in Environmental Archaeology

doi 10.3389/fearc.2023.1309907

4,421 views
9 citations

Original Research

Published on 03 Oct 2023

Between valleys, plateaus, and mountains: unveiling livestock altitudinal mobility in the Iron Age Iberian Peninsula (3rd c. BC) through a multi-isotope approach

in Zooarchaeology

Chiara Messana
Carlos Tornero
Richard Madgwick
Angela L. Lamb
Jane Evans
Lídia Colominas

Frontiers in Environmental Archaeology

doi 10.3389/fearc.2023.1245725

4,003 views
11 citations

Brief Research Report

Published on 14 Aug 2023

New zooarchaeological evidence from Pictish sites in Scotland: implications for early medieval economies and animal-human relationships

in Zooarchaeology

Edouard Masson-MacLean
Sesilia Niehaus
Elizabeth Fraser
Veronica Lee
Shalen Prado
Orsolya Czére
Jovita Fawcett
James O'Driscoll
Linus Girdland-Flink
Gordon Noble

Frontiers in Environmental Archaeology

doi 10.3389/fearc.2023.1208908

5,453 views
1 citation

Original Research

Published on 06 Jul 2023

Inland fishing by Homo sapiens during early settlement of Wallacea

in Zooarchaeology

Clara Boulanger
Stuart Hawkins
Ceri Shipton
Thomas Ingicco
Anne-Marie Sémah
Sofia Samper Carro
Sue O'Connor

Frontiers in Environmental Archaeology

doi 10.3389/fearc.2023.1201351

3,744 views
8 citations

Original Research

Published on 26 Apr 2023

Climate change and pulse migration: intermittent Chugach Inuit occupation of glacial fiords on the Kenai Coast, Alaska

in Zooarchaeology

Aron L. Crowell
Mayumi Arimitsu

Frontiers in Environmental Archaeology

doi 10.3389/fearc.2023.1145220

6,818 views
3 citations

Hypothesis and Theory

Published on 24 Apr 2023

Horse domestication as a multi-centered, multi-stage process: Botai and the role of specialized Eneolithic horse pastoralism in the development of human-equine relationships

in Zooarchaeology

Alan K. Outram

Frontiers in Environmental Archaeology

doi 10.3389/fearc.2023.1134068

10,658 views
19 citations

Original Research

Published on 07 Feb 2023

The exploitation of crabs by Last Interglacial Iberian Neanderthals: The evidence from Gruta da Figueira Brava (Portugal)

in Zooarchaeology

Mariana Nabais
Catherine Dupont
João Zilhão

Frontiers in Environmental Archaeology

doi 10.3389/fearc.2023.1097815

31,870 views
17 citations

24 articles

articles

Seasonal and Gendered Patterns in Subsistence Fishing and Shellfish Gathering: Insights from Mfumbwi (Zanzibar) for Archaeological Interpretation and Contemporary Fisheries Management

Editorial: Neanderthal complex behaviour through the lens of faunal resources

Cut from the same cloth? Comparing Neanderthal processing of faunal resources at Amud and Kebara caves (Israel) through cut-marks analyses

Fish from the Ōtata midden: change and continuity in pre-European Māori fisheries

Late Neanderthal subsistence and foraging mobility at Lapa do Picareiro: a zooarchaeological and taphonomic analysis of Level JJ

Neanderthal had a “crush” on fats. Macronutrient estimation in Middle Paleolithic (Late Mousterian) hunter-gatherers of southern Italy

Ungulates and carnivores from the late MIS-5 Neanderthal occupation of Gruta da Figueira Brava (Portugal)

Adapting to rapidly transforming seascapes in the Mid- to Late Holocene, southeastern Australia

Management of South American camelids in the eastern Andes of Northwestern Argentina: a comparative study of archaeological cases in the last two millennia

Hunters of the “Mediterranean Triad”: persistent and intensive exploitation of faunal resources during the Late Middle Pleistocene at Cueva del Ángel (Lucena, Spain)

Ichthyoarchaeological perspectives on roles of fish and red meat during Indus Civilization in Gujarat, India

Three thousand years of oyster fisheries: a view from Southeast Queensland, Australia

Indigenous use and conservation of harbor seals (Phoca vitulina) at Yakutat, Alaska since the sixteenth century

Alternating carnivore and Neanderthal activities at Escoural Cave: insights from the taphonomic and machine learning analysis of leporid remains

Neanderthal exploitation of birds in north-western Europe: Avian remains from Scladina Cave (Belgium)

Experimental replication of early human behaviour in bird preparation: a pilot-study focusing on bone surface modification and breakage patterns

Neanderthal resilience and adaptability: insights from the Abric Pizarro faunal assemblage during the MIS 4

Early husbandry practices in highland areas during the Neolithic: the case of Coro Trasito cave (Huesca, Spain)

Between valleys, plateaus, and mountains: unveiling livestock altitudinal mobility in the Iron Age Iberian Peninsula (3rd c. BC) through a multi-isotope approach

New zooarchaeological evidence from Pictish sites in Scotland: implications for early medieval economies and animal-human relationships

Inland fishing by Homo sapiens during early settlement of Wallacea

Climate change and pulse migration: intermittent Chugach Inuit occupation of glacial fiords on the Kenai Coast, Alaska

Horse domestication as a multi-centered, multi-stage process: Botai and the role of specialized Eneolithic horse pastoralism in the development of human-equine relationships

The exploitation of crabs by Last Interglacial Iberian Neanderthals: The evidence from Gruta da Figueira Brava (Portugal)