Deschler‐erb
Biographic Data
| ID | 807151 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Deschler‐erb |
| FAMILY NAME | Deschler‐erb |
| SIGNATURE | ERB D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Basel |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4876-9217 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 64 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1992 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Livestock management during times of transition. Exploring the relationship between animal size and diet from Roman to early medieval Augusta Raurica (Switzerland)
Zooarchaeological research all over Europe has suggested a generalised pattern of livestock size decrease during the transition between the Roman times and the Early Middle Ages. Different reasons have been proposed to explain this pattern, including a change in management and feeding practices, in the context of a shift of animal husbandry from large to small scale production. This paper is based on faunal material from Roman and early medieval …
Biographies d'animaux
Deschler-Erb, Sabine, Wild, Markus (2024): Biographies d'animaux: état de la recherche, approches et perspectives. Anthropozoologica 59 (8): 121-130, DOI: 10.5252/anthropozoologica2024v59a8, URL: https://sciencepress.mnhn.fr/sites/default/files/articles/pdf/anthropozoologica2024v59a8.pdf
Animals in Roman economy
Animals, Crops and Dark Earth
Cologne constituted one of the political and economic centres of the northernmost frontier (limes) region of the Roman Empire, and was at the core of important socio-political upheavals following its collapse. Here, an interdisciplinary approach (combining zooarchaeology, archaeobotany and soil micromorphology) is applied to examine the late Roman and early medieval periods of the city. This has allowed understanding important changes that Cologn…
Fine dining” in the Roman provinces
The peristyle house kitchen in the legionary camp at Vindonissa is one of the few examples of a Mediterranean-style kitchen with a raised hearth in the northwestern provinces. The exceptional preservation of the kitchen made possible an interdisciplinary investigation combining archaeological, archaeobiological, and micromorphological analyses in order to reconstruct dietary and food-processing practices, kitchen maintenance, and waste disposal m…
Innovation and Intensification
This paper examines the role of cattle in the Roman economy acrossthe region of the river Rhine (the Netherlands, western and south-western Germany, eastern France, and northern and eastern Switzerland). This large region marked the northern frontier of the Roman Empire. Taxonomic data (over 606,000 animal remains – cattle, sheep/goat and pig) are considered, and biometrical data (nearly 15,000 cattle bone measurements) are analysed through the l…
Mithraism under the microscope
This paper is the first to use an innovative multi-proxy approach to obtain insights into hitherto unknown Mithraic cult practices. Using soil micromorphology, zooarchaeology and histotaphonomy, we investigated two mithraea (Biesheim FR, Kempraten CH) and one cult cave (Zillis CH). This was also the first study to include micromorphological and histotaphonomic approaches within the context of Mithraic research. The systematic evaluation of therma…
Animal husbandry between the Roman times and the High Middle Ages in central Europe
This paper presents a meta-analysis of biometrical data of cattle ( Bos taurus ), sheep ( Ovis aries ), and pig ( Sus domesticus ), with a diachronic, long-term approach (first–twelfth centuries AD) and at a large regional scale (Switzerland and adjacent areas of France), with the aim of looking at changes in animal husbandry during the transition between Roman times and the Early Middle Ages. With this in mind, a comprehensive biometrical analys…
The mules that are not mules - metrics, morphology, archaeogenomics and mtDNA d-loop diversity in equids from Roman Switzerland
Mules (Equus asinus x Equus caballus) represent first-generation hybrids between a female horse (mare) and a male donkey (jack). They are generally considered to have first appeared north of the Alps with Roman influence, a time period in which written and iconographic sources support their key role for transport and traction, both in farming and the military. The archaeozoological evidence for mules is, however, contentious as faunal assemblages…
The transition from Antiquity to the Middle Ages in present-day Switzerland
Incubated eggs in a Roman burial? A preliminary investigation on how to distinguish between the effects of incubation and taphonomy on avian eggshell from archaeological sites
Alpine cattle management during the Bronze Age at Ramosch-Mottata, Switzerland
Size diversity in Swiss Bronze Age cattle
To date, osteometric data for Swiss Bronze Age cattle, particularly from Alpine sites, are scarce. In the present study, using a large dataset generated by combining preexisting data with recent data obtained from a large Alpine site, cattle size from the Late Neolithic to the Late Bronze Age (LBA) in populations from different sites and regions was evaluated using the logarithmic size index and other statistical analysis. Additionally, the finit…
Animal Husbandry in Roman Switzerland
Archaeozoological research of Roman animal bones has a long tradition in Switzerland. In the 1950s, Elisabeth Schmid started analysing bones from the Roman city of Augusta Raurica. On the basis of these analyses she published her Atlas of Animal Bones (1972) which is still in use all over the world today. To date, more than 300,000 bone fragments from different Swiss sites have been analysed. In 2002 a synthesis of Swiss data was published by Jör…
Mitochondrial d-loop variation, coat colour and sex identification of Late Iron Age horses in Switzerland
In the Celtic world, horses enjoyed a prominent position as status symbols and objects of veneration, yet little is known about these Celtic horses except that they were rather small. The Late Iron Age was a time defined by increasing inter-cultural contact between Celtic peoples and the Romans. This is, amongst other features, observable in the phenotypes of domestic livestock such as horses. Amongst the usually small animals, larger ones are ra…
Carnem et circenses – consumption of animals and their products in Roman urban and military sites in two regions in the northwestern provinces
This paper investigates the consumption of animals and their products in the northwestern provinces of the Roman Empire. A regional approach was used, comparing two research areas: the northern part of modern Switzerland and the central part of the modern Netherlands. These two regions have different histories, backgrounds and landscapes. Our aim was to find out whether these different histories and backgrounds led to different consumption patter…
Market strategies in the Roman provinces
Animals in funerary space
Deschler-Erb, Sabine (2013): Animals in funerary space: Ethnic, social and functional aspects in Roman Switzerland. Anthropozoologica 48 (2): 381-390, DOI: 10.5252/az2013n2a14, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.5252/az2013n2a14
Miners and mining in the Late Bronze Age
The extraction and processing of metal ores, particularly those of copper and tin, are regarded as among the principal motors of Bronze Age society. The skills and risks of mining lie behind the weapons, tools and symbols that drove political and ideological change. But we hear much less about the miners themselves and their position in society. Who were these people? Were they rich and special, or expendable members of a hard-pressed workforce? …
L'artisanat en milieu rural sur le territoire de la Suisse actuelle
Dans le cadre du projet CRAFTS lancé par l'association Instrumentum/SEMANT, une équipe pluridisciplinaire financée par le Fonds national suisse récolte depuis janvier 2002, pour le territoire helvétique, l'ensemble des sources disponibles sur l'artisanat romain. Ce recensement doit servir de base à une analyse et une comparaison des structures, du rôle économique et de la position sociale des artisans à l'époque romaine en Italie et dans les prov…
Das Fundmaterial aus der Schichtenfolge beim Augster Theater
Leimsiederei- und Räuchereiwarenabfälle des 3. Jahrhunderts aus dem Bereich zwischen Frauenthermen und Theater von Augusta Raurica
Neue Erkenntnisse zur vertikalen und horizontalen Fundverteilung in einer Augster Stadtinsula
Miners and mining in the Late Bronze Age
The extraction and processing of metal ores, particularly those of copper and tin, are regarded as among the principal motors of Bronze Age society. The skills and risks of mining lie behind the weapons, tools and symbols that drove political and ideological change. But we hear much less about the miners themselves and their position in society. Who were these people? Were they rich and special, or expendable members of a hard-pressed workforce? …
Animal husbandry between the Roman times and the High Middle Ages in central Europe
This paper presents a meta-analysis of biometrical data of cattle ( Bos taurus ), sheep ( Ovis aries ), and pig ( Sus domesticus ), with a diachronic, long-term approach (first–twelfth centuries AD) and at a large regional scale (Switzerland and adjacent areas of France), with the aim of looking at changes in animal husbandry during the transition between Roman times and the Early Middle Ages. With this in mind, a comprehensive biometrical analys…
Animal Husbandry in Roman Switzerland
Archaeozoological research of Roman animal bones has a long tradition in Switzerland. In the 1950s, Elisabeth Schmid started analysing bones from the Roman city of Augusta Raurica. On the basis of these analyses she published her Atlas of Animal Bones (1972) which is still in use all over the world today. To date, more than 300,000 bone fragments from different Swiss sites have been analysed. In 2002 a synthesis of Swiss data was published by Jör…
Carnem et circenses – consumption of animals and their products in Roman urban and military sites in two regions in the northwestern provinces
This paper investigates the consumption of animals and their products in the northwestern provinces of the Roman Empire. A regional approach was used, comparing two research areas: the northern part of modern Switzerland and the central part of the modern Netherlands. These two regions have different histories, backgrounds and landscapes. Our aim was to find out whether these different histories and backgrounds led to different consumption patter…
The mules that are not mules - metrics, morphology, archaeogenomics and mtDNA d-loop diversity in equids from Roman Switzerland
Mules (Equus asinus x Equus caballus) represent first-generation hybrids between a female horse (mare) and a male donkey (jack). They are generally considered to have first appeared north of the Alps with Roman influence, a time period in which written and iconographic sources support their key role for transport and traction, both in farming and the military. The archaeozoological evidence for mules is, however, contentious as faunal assemblages…
Innovation and Intensification
This paper examines the role of cattle in the Roman economy acrossthe region of the river Rhine (the Netherlands, western and south-western Germany, eastern France, and northern and eastern Switzerland). This large region marked the northern frontier of the Roman Empire. Taxonomic data (over 606,000 animal remains – cattle, sheep/goat and pig) are considered, and biometrical data (nearly 15,000 cattle bone measurements) are analysed through the l…
Mithraism under the microscope
This paper is the first to use an innovative multi-proxy approach to obtain insights into hitherto unknown Mithraic cult practices. Using soil micromorphology, zooarchaeology and histotaphonomy, we investigated two mithraea (Biesheim FR, Kempraten CH) and one cult cave (Zillis CH). This was also the first study to include micromorphological and histotaphonomic approaches within the context of Mithraic research. The systematic evaluation of therma…
Incubated eggs in a Roman burial? A preliminary investigation on how to distinguish between the effects of incubation and taphonomy on avian eggshell from archaeological sites
Size diversity in Swiss Bronze Age cattle
To date, osteometric data for Swiss Bronze Age cattle, particularly from Alpine sites, are scarce. In the present study, using a large dataset generated by combining preexisting data with recent data obtained from a large Alpine site, cattle size from the Late Neolithic to the Late Bronze Age (LBA) in populations from different sites and regions was evaluated using the logarithmic size index and other statistical analysis. Additionally, the finit…
Market strategies in the Roman provinces
Fine dining” in the Roman provinces
The peristyle house kitchen in the legionary camp at Vindonissa is one of the few examples of a Mediterranean-style kitchen with a raised hearth in the northwestern provinces. The exceptional preservation of the kitchen made possible an interdisciplinary investigation combining archaeological, archaeobiological, and micromorphological analyses in order to reconstruct dietary and food-processing practices, kitchen maintenance, and waste disposal m…
Mitochondrial d-loop variation, coat colour and sex identification of Late Iron Age horses in Switzerland
In the Celtic world, horses enjoyed a prominent position as status symbols and objects of veneration, yet little is known about these Celtic horses except that they were rather small. The Late Iron Age was a time defined by increasing inter-cultural contact between Celtic peoples and the Romans. This is, amongst other features, observable in the phenotypes of domestic livestock such as horses. Amongst the usually small animals, larger ones are ra…
L'artisanat en milieu rural sur le territoire de la Suisse actuelle
Dans le cadre du projet CRAFTS lancé par l'association Instrumentum/SEMANT, une équipe pluridisciplinaire financée par le Fonds national suisse récolte depuis janvier 2002, pour le territoire helvétique, l'ensemble des sources disponibles sur l'artisanat romain. Ce recensement doit servir de base à une analyse et une comparaison des structures, du rôle économique et de la position sociale des artisans à l'époque romaine en Italie et dans les prov…
Das Fundmaterial aus der Schichtenfolge beim Augster Theater
L'artisanat en milieu rural sur le territoire de la Suisse actuelle
Dans le cadre du projet CRAFTS lancé par l'association Instrumentum/SEMANT, une équipe pluridisciplinaire financée par le Fonds national suisse récolte depuis janvier 2002, pour le territoire helvétique, l'ensemble des sources disponibles sur l'artisanat romain. Ce recensement doit servir de base à une analyse et une comparaison des structures, du rôle économique et de la position sociale des artisans à l'époque romaine en Italie et dans les prov…
Miners and mining in the Late Bronze Age
The extraction and processing of metal ores, particularly those of copper and tin, are regarded as among the principal motors of Bronze Age society. The skills and risks of mining lie behind the weapons, tools and symbols that drove political and ideological change. But we hear much less about the miners themselves and their position in society. Who were these people? Were they rich and special, or expendable members of a hard-pressed workforce? …
Animals in funerary space
Deschler-Erb, Sabine (2013): Animals in funerary space: Ethnic, social and functional aspects in Roman Switzerland. Anthropozoologica 48 (2): 381-390, DOI: 10.5252/az2013n2a14, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.5252/az2013n2a14
Market strategies in the Roman provinces
Mitochondrial d-loop variation, coat colour and sex identification of Late Iron Age horses in Switzerland
In the Celtic world, horses enjoyed a prominent position as status symbols and objects of veneration, yet little is known about these Celtic horses except that they were rather small. The Late Iron Age was a time defined by increasing inter-cultural contact between Celtic peoples and the Romans. This is, amongst other features, observable in the phenotypes of domestic livestock such as horses. Amongst the usually small animals, larger ones are ra…
Carnem et circenses – consumption of animals and their products in Roman urban and military sites in two regions in the northwestern provinces
This paper investigates the consumption of animals and their products in the northwestern provinces of the Roman Empire. A regional approach was used, comparing two research areas: the northern part of modern Switzerland and the central part of the modern Netherlands. These two regions have different histories, backgrounds and landscapes. Our aim was to find out whether these different histories and backgrounds led to different consumption patter…
Animal Husbandry in Roman Switzerland
Archaeozoological research of Roman animal bones has a long tradition in Switzerland. In the 1950s, Elisabeth Schmid started analysing bones from the Roman city of Augusta Raurica. On the basis of these analyses she published her Atlas of Animal Bones (1972) which is still in use all over the world today. To date, more than 300,000 bone fragments from different Swiss sites have been analysed. In 2002 a synthesis of Swiss data was published by Jör…
Alpine cattle management during the Bronze Age at Ramosch-Mottata, Switzerland
Size diversity in Swiss Bronze Age cattle
To date, osteometric data for Swiss Bronze Age cattle, particularly from Alpine sites, are scarce. In the present study, using a large dataset generated by combining preexisting data with recent data obtained from a large Alpine site, cattle size from the Late Neolithic to the Late Bronze Age (LBA) in populations from different sites and regions was evaluated using the logarithmic size index and other statistical analysis. Additionally, the finit…
The transition from Antiquity to the Middle Ages in present-day Switzerland
Incubated eggs in a Roman burial? A preliminary investigation on how to distinguish between the effects of incubation and taphonomy on avian eggshell from archaeological sites
The mules that are not mules - metrics, morphology, archaeogenomics and mtDNA d-loop diversity in equids from Roman Switzerland
Mules (Equus asinus x Equus caballus) represent first-generation hybrids between a female horse (mare) and a male donkey (jack). They are generally considered to have first appeared north of the Alps with Roman influence, a time period in which written and iconographic sources support their key role for transport and traction, both in farming and the military. The archaeozoological evidence for mules is, however, contentious as faunal assemblages…
Animal husbandry between the Roman times and the High Middle Ages in central Europe
This paper presents a meta-analysis of biometrical data of cattle ( Bos taurus ), sheep ( Ovis aries ), and pig ( Sus domesticus ), with a diachronic, long-term approach (first–twelfth centuries AD) and at a large regional scale (Switzerland and adjacent areas of France), with the aim of looking at changes in animal husbandry during the transition between Roman times and the Early Middle Ages. With this in mind, a comprehensive biometrical analys…
Innovation and Intensification
This paper examines the role of cattle in the Roman economy acrossthe region of the river Rhine (the Netherlands, western and south-western Germany, eastern France, and northern and eastern Switzerland). This large region marked the northern frontier of the Roman Empire. Taxonomic data (over 606,000 animal remains – cattle, sheep/goat and pig) are considered, and biometrical data (nearly 15,000 cattle bone measurements) are analysed through the l…
Mithraism under the microscope
This paper is the first to use an innovative multi-proxy approach to obtain insights into hitherto unknown Mithraic cult practices. Using soil micromorphology, zooarchaeology and histotaphonomy, we investigated two mithraea (Biesheim FR, Kempraten CH) and one cult cave (Zillis CH). This was also the first study to include micromorphological and histotaphonomic approaches within the context of Mithraic research. The systematic evaluation of therma…
Animals in Roman economy
Animals, Crops and Dark Earth
Cologne constituted one of the political and economic centres of the northernmost frontier (limes) region of the Roman Empire, and was at the core of important socio-political upheavals following its collapse. Here, an interdisciplinary approach (combining zooarchaeology, archaeobotany and soil micromorphology) is applied to examine the late Roman and early medieval periods of the city. This has allowed understanding important changes that Cologn…
Fine dining” in the Roman provinces
The peristyle house kitchen in the legionary camp at Vindonissa is one of the few examples of a Mediterranean-style kitchen with a raised hearth in the northwestern provinces. The exceptional preservation of the kitchen made possible an interdisciplinary investigation combining archaeological, archaeobiological, and micromorphological analyses in order to reconstruct dietary and food-processing practices, kitchen maintenance, and waste disposal m…
Livestock management during times of transition. Exploring the relationship between animal size and diet from Roman to early medieval Augusta Raurica (Switzerland)
Zooarchaeological research all over Europe has suggested a generalised pattern of livestock size decrease during the transition between the Roman times and the Early Middle Ages. Different reasons have been proposed to explain this pattern, including a change in management and feeding practices, in the context of a shift of animal husbandry from large to small scale production. This paper is based on faunal material from Roman and early medieval …
Leimsiederei- und Räuchereiwarenabfälle des 3. Jahrhunderts aus dem Bereich zwischen Frauenthermen und Theater von Augusta Raurica
Neue Erkenntnisse zur vertikalen und horizontalen Fundverteilung in einer Augster Stadtinsula
Biographies d'animaux
Deschler-Erb, Sabine, Wild, Markus (2024): Biographies d'animaux: état de la recherche, approches et perspectives. Anthropozoologica 59 (8): 121-130, DOI: 10.5252/anthropozoologica2024v59a8, URL: https://sciencepress.mnhn.fr/sites/default/files/articles/pdf/anthropozoologica2024v59a8.pdf
Geography (16 works) · Archaeology (15 works) · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (11 works) · Biology (11 works) · History (9 works) · History (9 works) · Ecology (8 works) · Agriculture (7 works) · Ancient and Medieval Archaeology Studies (7 works) · Ancient history (6 works)