C A Makarewicz
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 104229 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | C A Makarewicz |
| NOMBRES | C A |
| APELLIDO | Makarewicz |
| FIRMA | MAKAREWICZ C A |
| AFILIACIONES | Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1649-336X |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 62 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 562 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 62 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2005 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 12 |
Nascent agricultural extensification and distinct household cultivation strategies supported first population centers in Neolithic southeastern Europe
Late Neolithic settlements in southeastern Europe expanded to unprecedented sizes, potentially reshaping agricultural practices and household production strategies in response to increasing demographic and environmental constraints. On the Great Hungarian Plain, such population aggregation occurred within landscapes characterized by extensive wetlands and limited arable land, raising questions about how cultivation regimes were organized and whet…
Sustained Bronze Age Agricultural Practice at the North Sea Coast
The Nordic Bronze Age (1700–500 BCE) was a period of profound socio-cultural transformation, evidenced by the interment of elites in mortuary monuments and by novel participation in wider European exchange networks. Emmer, spelt and naked barley were staple crops cultivated throughout the Bronze Age, with other cultivars added to the agricultural repetoire and permanent fielding systems installed by the mid-first millennium BCE. However, little i…
Earliest evidence for the use of desert kite mass-hunting structures in southeastern Jordan during the late pre-pottery neolithic B
Desert kites – large-scale stone structures used for mass game hunting – are among the most extensive prehistoric constructions in the Middle East. Despite their ubiquity, the chronology of their emergence has long remained unresolved. This study presents the earliest direct and robust evidence for the construction and use of desert kites, based on integrated radiocarbon and optically stimulated luminescence (OSL) dating of three kites from a sin…
Differences in the isotopic composition of individual grains and aggregated seed samples affect interpretation of ancient plant cultivation practices
The stable carbon (δ 13 C) and nitrogen (δ 15 N) isotope analysis of charred archaeological grains provides a remarkably precise scale of information: the growing conditions under which a plant was cultivated in a single field and season. Here we investigate how the measurement of single individual grains or aggregate “bulk” samples for carbon and nitrogen isotopes impacts how we characterize variation and, consequently, our interpretations of an…
Cattle traction in the Xiongnu empire
Cattle are essential in pastoralist steppe societies, not only for their milk and meat but also for their labor carrying material and people. The Xiongnu polity (300 BCE – 100 CE) was a confederation of pastoral nomads who assembled a powerful empire that commanded the Mongolian steppe and beyond through military prowess and statecraft. Supported by local livestock production, exchange, trade, and tribute, the Xiongnu empire moved goods, people, …
A thousand years of Nubian supply of sub-Saharan ivory to the Southern Levant, ca. 1600–600 BCE
Finely crafted ivory objects were highly valued prestige commodities in the Levant and more generally throughout the ancient Near East, wielded as symbols of authority, rulership, and participation in trans-regional trade networks. Our research aims to trace the networks and agents involved in the trade of ivory to the Southern Levant over a period of a thousand years (1600 BCE–600 BCE) by identifying its biological and geographical sources. This…
Dentin collagen sample geometry impacts pattern of intra-tooth nitrogen and carbon isotope change in taurine teeth
Multispecies pastoralism around Delgerkhaan Uul - local practices under large scale sociocultural and political shifts between 1800 BC and 200 AD
Pastoral provisioning of Uyghur elites in an urban setting
The emergence of the first urban centers in the Mongolian steppe coincided with the establishment of the Uyghur Khaganate during the mid-eighth century CE. The capital city Karabalgasun was a large urban space characterized by a sprawl of workshops, domestic households, and market areas frequented by indigenous and foreign residents, mobile pastoralists and travelling traders. Zooarchaeological analyses of faunas recovered from the fortified admi…
Wealth in Livestock, Wealth-in-People, and Shifting Modes of Production in the Pre-Pottery Neolithic of Jordan – Corrigendum
Wealth in Livestock, Wealth in People, and the Pre-Pottery Neolithic of Jordan
Within archaeology, the value of livestock is usually presented in terms of use values, the calories and products animals provide humans. Yet domestic animals are also sources of wealth that accrue symbolic and social values, tying livestock production to the reproduction of human social relations. Taking a Marxist perspective that recognizes dialectical relations between forms of value, we develop a model based on ethnographic examples in which …
Cultural Hybridity in Central and Southern Jordan at the End of the Pre-Pottery Neolithic A
Our understanding of the transition from the PPNA to the PPNB in central and southern Jordan has undergone significant changes in recent decades. Initially, it appeared that the PPNB arrived in the region fully formed during the Middle PPNB, expressed at sites such as Beidha. Yet it retained features like circular architecture associated with the PPNA, and was thus presumed to indicate a time lag in its arrival from the north, where such structur…
Processing and storage of tree fruits, cereals and pulses at PPNA Sharara, southern Jordan
Recent excavations at the Pre-Pottery Neolithic A site of Sharara (ca. 9250 cal bc ) in southern Jordan have yielded a rich assemblage of charred macrobotanical remains. The bulk of this assemblage was recovered from a single structure at the settlement that was destroyed by fire and which appears to have functioned as an area for processing and possibly also for storing plant foods. Among the charred plant remains recovered from this space were …
Best practices for selecting samples, analyzing data, and publishing results in isotope archaeology
Cappadocian obsidian exchange networks in the Pre-Pottery Neolithic A
Extensive woodland pasturing supported Pitted Ware Complex livestock management systems
N-Alkanes and their carbon isotopes (δ13C) reveal seasonal foddering and long-term corralling of pastoralist livestock in eastern Mongolia
Cattle and People
This volume originates in a conference session that took place at the 2018 International Council of Archaeozoology conference in Ankara, Turkey, entitled "Humans and Cattle: Interdisciplinary Perspectives to an Ancient Relationship." The aim of the session was to bring together zooarchaeologists and their colleagues from various other research fields working on human cattle interactions over time. The contributions in this volume reflect well the…
Community negotiation and pasture partitioning at the Trypillia settlement of Maidanetske
The inhabitants of the vast Chalcolithic Trypillia sites of Eastern Europe required highly organised strategies to meet subsistence needs. Here, the authors use isotopic analyses of faunal remains from Maidanetske, Ukraine, to identify intensive and extensive grazing practices. The former demanded intra-community negotiation to ensure access to high-quality pastures for valuable animals such as dairy cows, suggesting that pasture may have also se…
The origins and spread of domestic horses from the Western Eurasian steppes
Domestication of horses fundamentally transformed long-range mobility and warfare 1 . However, modern domesticated breeds do not descend from the earliest domestic horse lineage associated with archaeological evidence of bridling, milking and corralling 2–4 at Botai, Central Asia around 3500 bc 3 . Other longstanding candidate regions for horse domestication, such as Iberia 5 and Anatolia 6 , have also recently been challenged. Thus, the genetic,…
The bird remains from WF16, an early Neolithic settlement in southern Jordan
Excavations at the early Neolithic settlement of WF16 in Faynan, southern Jordan, 11.84-10.24 ka BP, recovered 17,700 bird bones, of which 7808 could be identified to at least family level. Sixty-three different bird taxa are present from 18 families, representing a mix of resident and migrant birds, based on present-day ecology. We describe the settlement context for the assemblage, its taxonomic composition, spatial and chronological distributi…
Stable isotopic insights into crop cultivation, animal husbandry, and land use at the Linearbandkeramik site of Vráble-Veľké Lehemby (Slovakia)
The plant and animal components of Linearbandkeramik (LBK) subsistence systems were remarkably uniform with cattle, emmer and einkorn wheat providing the primary source of sustenance for Europe’s earliest agricultural communities. This apparent homogeneity in plant and animal use has been implicitly understood to indicate corresponding similarity in the types of husbandry practices employed by LBK farmers across the entire distribution of the LBK…
Herding and Hunting at Vinča – Belo Brdo and Stubline During the Late Neolithic, a Stable Isotopic Perspective
Close management of sheep in ancient Central Asia
Pastoralism in Central Asia directed the utilization of natural resources, yet information on livestock management strategies remain scarce. Carbon (δ13C) and oxygen (δ18O) isotope analyses of domesticated sheep teeth are used to identify animal management strategies. Sheep from Kent exhibit an inverserelationship where low δ18O values coincide with high δ13C values, consistent with the foddering of caprines in the winter for this location which …
Beyond the Jordan
Recent excavations in Jordan have demonstrated a long sequence of development from the late Pleistocene Epipalaeolithic through the early Holocene Pre-Pottery Neolithic. Superficially, the growing body of social and subsistence evidence suggests Neolithic communities emerged from traditions rooted in the early Epipalaeolithic. However, while developments such as the construction of shelters, population aggregation, and subsistence intensification…
Dietary reconstruction, mobility, and the analysis of ancient skeletal tissues
Finding Fodder and Tracking Transhumance
The domestication of several animal taxa in the Near East approximately 10,000 years ago marked a fundamental shift in human-animal interactions that irrevocably transformed the subsistence base of prehistoric societies. Domesticates eventually provided humans with an easily accessible source of animal products including meat, milk, and hair, but the mechanisms by which humans first experimented with and domesticated their animals remain poorly u…
The Archaeology of Pastoral Nomadism
Pastoral nomadism encompasses an array of specialized knowledge concerned with the daily rhythms and long-term tempos of caring for herd animals in order to extract subsistence livelihoods. It also embodies the relational lives of herders and the diverse ways in which herd animals structure the social and symbolic worlds of mobile pastoralists. This article reviews the latest research on ancient pastoral nomadic communities that is emerging in ma…
Winter pasturing practices and variable fodder provisioning detected in nitrogen (δ15N) and carbon (δ13C) isotopes in sheep dentinal collagen
Foddering by Mongolian pastoralists is recorded in the stable carbon (δ13C) and nitrogen (δ15N) isotopes of caprine dentinal collagen
Winter is coming
Vertical transhumance of sheep and goats identified by intra-tooth sequential carbon (δ13C) and oxygen (δ18O) isotopic analyses
Stable oxygen (δ18O) and hydrogen (δD) isotopes in ovicaprid dentinal collagen record seasonal variation
Early Holocene woodland vegetation and human impacts in the arid zone of the southern Levant
Palynological archives dating from the Pleistocene–Holocene transition are scarce in the arid zone of the southern Levant. Anthracological remains (the carbonized residues of wood fuel use found in archaeological habitation sites) provide an alternative source of information about past vegetation. This paper discusses new and previously available anthracological datasets retrieved from excavated habitation sites in the southern Levant dating to t…
Pasture usage by ancient pastoralists in the northern Kazakh steppe informed by carbon and nitrogen isoscapes of contemporary floral biomes
Identification of variation in pasture use by domesticated livestock has important implications for understanding the scale of animal husbandry and landscape use in modern and ancient societies alike. Here, we explore the influence of pasture floral composition, salinity, and water availability on the carbon (δ13C) and nitrogen (δ15N) isotopic composition of plants from the steppes of Kazakhstan. Our findings demonstrate geospatially defined diff…
Harvesting practices and early Neolithic barley cultivation at el-Hemmeh, Jordan
Pastoralist Mobility in Bronze Age Landscapes of Northern Kazakhstan
The role of migration and mobility of people across the steppe has often been cited as key to Bronze Age developments across Eurasia, including the emergence of complex societies in the steppe and the spread of material culture. The central Eurasian steppe (CES) is a focal point for the investigation of the shifting nature of pastoral societies because of the clear transition in archaeological patterning that occurred from the Middle (MBA) to Lat…
Fodder, pasture, and the development of complex society in the Chalcolithic
The adoption of cattle pastoralism in the Arabian Peninsula
The translocation of livestock into the Arabian Peninsula was underway by the sixth millennium BC. It remains unclear, however, whether nascent pastoralism in Arabia focused on specialised cattle herding, intensive caprine husbandry, or more extensive forms of sheep, goat and cattle management. Here, the role of Bos in Neolithic animal exploitation systems in the Arabian Peninsula is re‐examined in the context of fisher‐hunter‐gatherer groups inh…
Emerging genetic patterns of the european neolithic
The transition from hunting and gathering to agriculture in Europe is associated with demographic changes that may have shifted the human gene pool of the region as a result of an influx of Neolithic farmers from the Near East. However, the genetic composition of populations after the earliest Neolithic, when a diverse mosaic of societies that had been fully engaged in agriculture for some time appeared in central Europe, is poorly known. At this…
Further diversity in the Early Neolithic of the Southern Levant
Cette contribution présente l’analyse préliminaire d’un assemblage de pierres taillées provenant de niveaux datés du Néolithique précéramique A (PPNA) à el-Hemmeh, Jordanie du Sud. L’échantillon montre des affinités générales avec le matériel du PPNA décrit pour d’autres sites de la Jordanie du Sud, mais suggère également la présence de signes distinctifs au niveau typologique et technologique. Ces derniers incluent la présence d’au moins deux sc…
The early management of cattle (Bos taurus) in Neolithic central Anatolia
The authors use metrical, demographic and body part analyses of animal bone assemblages in Anatolia to demonstrate how cattle were incorporated into early Neolithic subsistence economies. Sheep and goats were domesticated in the eighth millennium BC, while aurochs, wild cattle, were long hunted. The earliest domesticated cattle are not noted until the mid-seventh millennium BC, and derive from imported stock domesticated elsewhere. In Anatolia, m…
Complex caprine harvesting practices and diversified hunting strategies
Makarewicz C.A. 2009. — Complex caprine harvesting practices and diversified hunting strategies: Integrated animal exploitation systems at Late Pre-Pottery Neolithic B 'Ain Jamman. >Anthropozoologica 44(1): 79-101.Sheep and goat herding formed the central component of the animal-based portion of Late Pre-Pottery Neolithic subsistence economies in the southern Levant, but a detailed understanding of the diversity of animal exploitation systems and…
The bird remains from WF16, an early Neolithic settlement in southern Jordan
Excavations at the early Neolithic settlement of WF16 in Faynan, southern Jordan, 11.84-10.24 ka BP, recovered 17,700 bird bones, of which 7808 could be identified to at least family level. Sixty-three different bird taxa are present from 18 families, representing a mix of resident and migrant birds, based on present-day ecology. We describe the settlement context for the assemblage, its taxonomic composition, spatial and chronological distributi…
Local adoption of animal husbandry in the southern Levant
Animal husbandry emerged as an important subsistence strategy at various tempos and trajectories across the southern Levant during the Pre-Pottery Neolithic B (ca. 8500–6500 cal bc). Here, we explore temporal variation in the emergence of animal management strategies, in particular those that alter the composition of the animal diet, west of the Jordan Valley, through carbon (δ13C) and nitrogen (δ15N) isotopic analyses of mountain gazelle, bezoar…
Caprine husbandry and initial pig management east of the Jordan Valley
Husbandry of domesticated caprines emerged as a central component of southern Levantine subsistence systems by the end of the 10th millennium cal. BP and remained so through the mid-9th millennium cal. BP when pigs and cattle were first heavily exploited in the Northern Jordan Valley. New zooarchaeological analyses of a chronologically significant assemblage from the Pre-Pottery Neolithic settlement of Wadi Shu’eib— located at a crucial geographi…
Cultural Hybridity in Central and Southern Jordan at the End of the Pre-Pottery Neolithic A
Our understanding of the transition from the PPNA to the PPNB in central and southern Jordan has undergone significant changes in recent decades. Initially, it appeared that the PPNB arrived in the region fully formed during the Middle PPNB, expressed at sites such as Beidha. Yet it retained features like circular architecture associated with the PPNA, and was thus presumed to indicate a time lag in its arrival from the north, where such structur…
Extensive woodland pasturing supported Pitted Ware Complex livestock management systems
Mitochondrial DNA of domesticated sheep confirms pastoralist component of Afanasievo subsistence economy in the Altai Mountains (3300–2900 cal BC)
Isotopic evidence for changing human mobility patterns after the disintegration of the Western Roman Empire at the Upper Rhine
Foddering by Mongolian pastoralists is recorded in the stable carbon (δ13C) and nitrogen (δ15N) isotopes of caprine dentinal collagen
Stable oxygen (δ18O) and hydrogen (δD) isotopes in ovicaprid dentinal collagen record seasonal variation
The early management of cattle (Bos taurus) in Neolithic central Anatolia
The authors use metrical, demographic and body part analyses of animal bone assemblages in Anatolia to demonstrate how cattle were incorporated into early Neolithic subsistence economies. Sheep and goats were domesticated in the eighth millennium BC, while aurochs, wild cattle, were long hunted. The earliest domesticated cattle are not noted until the mid-seventh millennium BC, and derive from imported stock domesticated elsewhere. In Anatolia, m…
Complex caprine harvesting practices and diversified hunting strategies
Makarewicz C.A. 2009. — Complex caprine harvesting practices and diversified hunting strategies: Integrated animal exploitation systems at Late Pre-Pottery Neolithic B 'Ain Jamman. >Anthropozoologica 44(1): 79-101.Sheep and goat herding formed the central component of the animal-based portion of Late Pre-Pottery Neolithic subsistence economies in the southern Levant, but a detailed understanding of the diversity of animal exploitation systems and…
Harvesting practices and early Neolithic barley cultivation at el-Hemmeh, Jordan
Emerging genetic patterns of the european neolithic
The transition from hunting and gathering to agriculture in Europe is associated with demographic changes that may have shifted the human gene pool of the region as a result of an influx of Neolithic farmers from the Near East. However, the genetic composition of populations after the earliest Neolithic, when a diverse mosaic of societies that had been fully engaged in agriculture for some time appeared in central Europe, is poorly known. At this…
Finding Fodder and Tracking Transhumance
The domestication of several animal taxa in the Near East approximately 10,000 years ago marked a fundamental shift in human-animal interactions that irrevocably transformed the subsistence base of prehistoric societies. Domesticates eventually provided humans with an easily accessible source of animal products including meat, milk, and hair, but the mechanisms by which humans first experimented with and domesticated their animals remain poorly u…
More than meat
This paper examines the diversity of goat and sheep husbandry practices in southern Jordan during the Late Pre-Pottery Neolithic B (Late PPNB), immediately following the domestication of these animals. Although the predominant view is one of sheep and goat husbandry as a relatively simple affair focused on the production of meat through the slaughter of young adult animals, results presented here reveal a multi-faceted system that included use of…
A pastoralist manifesto
Ever since early forms of pastoralist activity emerged some ten thousand years ago during the Neolithic, pastoralism has played a critical role in shaping the economic, social and political context of the Near East in rural and urban settings alike. However, despite increasing evidence detailing the significant impact pastoralists had on the structure of later proto-urban and urban societies, the significance of nascent pastoralist activities for…
Neolithic stereotypes
"Neolithic stereotypes: has South-west Asian archaeology outlived the Neolithic?." Levant, 45(2), p. 119
Winter pasturing practices and variable fodder provisioning detected in nitrogen (δ15N) and carbon (δ13C) isotopes in sheep dentinal collagen
Exploring the complexity of domestication
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Early Holocene woodland vegetation and human impacts in the arid zone of the southern Levant
Palynological archives dating from the Pleistocene–Holocene transition are scarce in the arid zone of the southern Levant. Anthracological remains (the carbonized residues of wood fuel use found in archaeological habitation sites) provide an alternative source of information about past vegetation. This paper discusses new and previously available anthracological datasets retrieved from excavated habitation sites in the southern Levant dating to t…
Dietary reconstruction, mobility, and the analysis of ancient skeletal tissues
Local adoption of animal husbandry in the southern Levant
Animal husbandry emerged as an important subsistence strategy at various tempos and trajectories across the southern Levant during the Pre-Pottery Neolithic B (ca. 8500–6500 cal bc). Here, we explore temporal variation in the emergence of animal management strategies, in particular those that alter the composition of the animal diet, west of the Jordan Valley, through carbon (δ13C) and nitrogen (δ15N) isotopic analyses of mountain gazelle, bezoar…
Tracing residential mobility during the Merovingian period
OBJECTIVES: Written sources have provided information about the rise of Merovingian power and their territorial conquests after the disintegration of the Western Roman Empire, but the extent to which altered power relations in the newly annexed territories reshaped regional and local communities is poorly understood. The early medieval cemetery of Dirmstein, located in the Upper Rhine Valley, is one of the rare sites bearing archeological evidenc…
Further diversity in the Early Neolithic of the Southern Levant
Cette contribution présente l’analyse préliminaire d’un assemblage de pierres taillées provenant de niveaux datés du Néolithique précéramique A (PPNA) à el-Hemmeh, Jordanie du Sud. L’échantillon montre des affinités générales avec le matériel du PPNA décrit pour d’autres sites de la Jordanie du Sud, mais suggère également la présence de signes distinctifs au niveau typologique et technologique. Ces derniers incluent la présence d’au moins deux sc…
Caprine husbandry and initial pig management east of the Jordan Valley
Husbandry of domesticated caprines emerged as a central component of southern Levantine subsistence systems by the end of the 10th millennium cal. BP and remained so through the mid-9th millennium cal. BP when pigs and cattle were first heavily exploited in the Northern Jordan Valley. New zooarchaeological analyses of a chronologically significant assemblage from the Pre-Pottery Neolithic settlement of Wadi Shu’eib— located at a crucial geographi…
The Archaeology of Pastoral Nomadism
Pastoral nomadism encompasses an array of specialized knowledge concerned with the daily rhythms and long-term tempos of caring for herd animals in order to extract subsistence livelihoods. It also embodies the relational lives of herders and the diverse ways in which herd animals structure the social and symbolic worlds of mobile pastoralists. This article reviews the latest research on ancient pastoral nomadic communities that is emerging in ma…
Isotopic approaches to pastoralism in prehistory
Pastoralism involves the exploitation of domesticated livestock and has been a vital component of human subsistence and surplus economies for thousands of years. By supplying their human caretakers with ready and renewable sources of milk, meat, fat, fiber, skins, and dung, livestock serve as an important source of subsistence and wealth in pastoralist communities. Stable isotope analysis (SIA) of human and animal skeletal tissues measure dietary…
Pastoralist Mobility in Bronze Age Landscapes of Northern Kazakhstan
The role of migration and mobility of people across the steppe has often been cited as key to Bronze Age developments across Eurasia, including the emergence of complex societies in the steppe and the spread of material culture. The central Eurasian steppe (CES) is a focal point for the investigation of the shifting nature of pastoral societies because of the clear transition in archaeological patterning that occurred from the Middle (MBA) to Lat…
Vertical transhumance of sheep and goats identified by intra-tooth sequential carbon (δ13C) and oxygen (δ18O) isotopic analyses
Winter is coming
Contextualising Beidha, Jordan, in the Southern Levantine PPNB
Les fouilles de Diana Kirkbride à Beidha dans le Sud de la Jordanie ont fourni des données essentielles sur l’occupation villageoise du Néolithique Pré-Céramique ancien, qui continuent à influencer profondément les recherches sur l’évolution de l’organisation sociale lors du passage d’une économie de prédation (chasse, cueillette) à une économie de production (élevage, agriculture). Les recherches plus récentes sur le Néolithique permettent une n…
Carbon Isotope Ratios of Plant n -Alkanes and Microstratigraphy Analyses of Dung Accumulations in a Pastoral Nomadic Winter Campsite (Eastern Mongolia)
Livestock fecal remains provide an important source of information on past animal husbandry systems and dung use. A combined micromorphological and biomolecular investigation of dung deposits brings new perspectives into past landscape land use and animal husbandry strategies by providing seasonal-scale information on livestock dietary intake as well as intensity of dung deposition in penning spaces. We conducted microstratigraphic analyses and c…
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