Louise Martins
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 3617059 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Louise Martins |
| NOMBRES | Louise |
| APELLIDO | Martins |
| FIRMA | MARTINS L |
| AFILIACIONES | University College London |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2083-813X |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 55 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 619 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 55 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1990 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 15 |
Not a place for respectable people, but the ends of the earth converge there
New data, recovered by the Eastern Badia Archaeological Project, from substantial structures at Wisad Pools have provided insights into the nature and context of eastern Jordan’s Black Desert Neolithic cultural complex, dating to between c. 7000 and 5000 cal. BC. Hunter-herder-trapper communities, with economies based partially on ante-mortem exploitation of domestic sheep, were adept at maintaining a balance between local and non-local adaptatio…
The prehistoric site of Oued Beht, Khémisset, Morocco
This report presents the first in-depth publication of preliminary data from Oued Beht, northwest Morocco, a remarkable site initially identified in the 1930s and now newly investigated. It is based on fieldwork undertaken in 2021–2022 (photogrammetry, survey and excavation), and associated study and analyses. Oued Beht is shown to be a large site of ca. 9–10 hectares in main extent, with many deep pits and convincing evidence for a full package …
Oued Beht, Morocco
The Maghreb (north-west Africa) played an important role during the Palaeolithic and later in connecting the western Mediterranean from the Phoenician to Islamic periods. Yet, knowledge of its later prehistory is limited, particularly between c. 4000 and 1000 BC. Here, the authors present the first results of investigations at Oued Beht, Morocco, revealing a hitherto unknown farming society dated to c. 3400-2900 BC. This is currently the earliest…
Bones of contention
Wadi Hammeh 27
Collecting myself
This paper reflects on an interior design practice developed within the specialist area of exhibitions and museums. Re-examining discussions around the contested territory of interiors, the paper argues for taking up perspectives and processes outside of the familiar, being unfixed whilst remaining inherently ‘of the interior’. Using exhibition design as a distinct lens, ‘the collection’ and its mediation are examined through a personal creative …
A tale of two hearth sites
Meat outside the freezer
Close companions
The origins of nomadic pastoralism in the eastern Jordanian steppe
The circumstances in which domestic animals were first introduced to the arid regions of the southern Levant and the origins of nomadic pastoralism have been the subject of considerable debate. Nomadic pastoralism was a novel herd management practice with implications for the economic, social and cultural development of Neolithic communities inhabiting steppe and early village environs. Combining faunal stable isotope and chipped stone analyses f…
Epipalaeolithic and Neolithic gazelle hunting in the Badia of north-east Jordan. Reconstruction of seasonal movements of herds by stable isotope and dental microwear analyses
In the north-east Jordan steppe, gazelle were of considerable economic importance to human groups during the Epipalaeolithic and Neolithic. An influential model argues that gazelle herds migrated through the region and were only seasonally available to hunters. This study tests that model, asking whether gazelle were indeed highly seasonally mobile during these time frames, or whether they could have remained more local, adapted to periodically r…
Wadi Hammeh 27
Environment, seasonality and hunting strategies as influences on Natufian food procurement
Analysis of the faunal assemblage from Shubayqa 1 allows detailed discussion of food procurement through the sequence of occupation spanning the Early and Late Natufian. The influence of climate, season of occupation and hunting techniques on the subsistence economy is discussed. It is argued that targeted prey varied throughout the year, with mass hunting methods providing a large proportion of the meat. In the Late Natufian a decrease in passag…
The Neolithic site of Jebel Oraf 2, northern Saudi Arabia
The Seasonal Mobility of Prehistoric Gazelle Herds in the Azraq Basin, Jordan
The hunting of Gazella subgutturosa was a dominant practice for Epipalaeolithic and early Neolithic hunter–gatherers in the east Jordan steppe. The seasonal mobility of this taxon in the Levant is poorly understood, especially for early prehistory when herd movements would have influenced hunter-gatherer use of the steppes. This paper proposes four patterns of seasonal herd mobility for G. subgutturosa centred on Jordan’s Azraq Basin. The four pa…
The animate house, the institutionalization of the household in Neolithic central Anatolia
This paper explores the effectiveness of a domestic mode of production model in explaining the development of Neolithic households in South-west Asia, using evidence from the site of Boncuklu in central Anatolia. We present evidence that Boncuklu households were institutionalized through repetitive practice, highly structured and symbolically charged domestic activity, ritual and symbolism stressing the animate and transcendental nature of the ho…
Faunal turnover in the Azraq Basin, eastern Jordan 28,000 to 9000 cal yr BP, signalling climate change and human impact
Recent zooarchaeological analyses of game exploitation in the Epipalaeolithic of the Southern Levant identify a decline in large game in the Natufian, with corresponding increase in small prey, interpreted as hunting pressure driven by population expansion. To date, studies focus on the Mediterranean zone. This paper adopts similar approaches to examine Epipalaeolithic to Neolithic faunal data from 16 sites in the steppic Jordanian Azraq Basin. R…
Gazelle seasonal mobility in the Jordanian steppe
Analytical Surveys of Stonehenge and its Environs, 2009–2013
Non-invasive survey in the Stonehenge ‘Triangle’, Amesbury, Wiltshire, has highlighted a number of features that have a significant bearing on the interpretation of the site. Geophysical anomalies may signal the position of buried stones adding to the possibility of former stone arrangements, while laser scanning has provided detail on the manner in which the stones have been dressed; some subsequently carved with axe and dagger symbols. The prob…
Occupying wide open spaces? Late Pleistocene hunter–gatherer activities in the Eastern Levant
Morphometric Analysis ofSusRemains from Neolithic Sites in the Wei River Valley, China, with Implications for Domestication
Size variation of Sus remains within and between sites is examined for the Neolithic sites in the Wei River valley in China. The coefficient of variation [V] for pig measurements at the sites of Wayaogou, Quanhucun and Jiangzhai was calculated, and we observed patterns that show evidence of two populations of different-size pigs, supporting the likelihood that both wild and domestic pigs were present. Also, size reduction of pigs can be traced wi…
Data Sharing Reveals Complexity in the Westward Spread of Domestic Animals across Neolithic Turkey
This study presents the results of a major data integration project bringing together primary archaeozoological data for over 200,000 faunal specimens excavated from seventeen sites in Turkey spanning the Epipaleolithic through Chalcolithic periods, c. 18,000-4,000 cal BC, in order to document the initial westward spread of domestic livestock across Neolithic central and western Turkey. From these shared datasets we demonstrate that the westward …
Analytical Surveys of Stonehenge and its Immediate Environs, 2009–2013
Integrated non-invasive survey in the Stonehenge ‘triangle’, Amesbury, Wiltshire, has highlighted a number of features that have a significant bearing on the interpretation of the site. Among them are periglacial and natural topographical structures, including a chalk mound that may have influenced site development. Some geophysical anomalies are similar to the post-holes in the car park of known Mesolithic date, while others beneath the barrows …
Seasonal aggregation and ritual slaughter
Broad spectrum or specialised activity? Birds and tortoises at the Epipalaeolithic site of Wadi Jilat 22 in the eastern Jordan steppe
The analysis of rich bone assemblages from an Epipalaeolithic site in Jordan show that wing feathers were being extracted, probably for ornamental or ceremonial purposes, from eagles and buzzards. These raptors were perhaps caught by luring them with tortoises, evident from smashed shells in the same assemblage. The authors speculate on the symbolic value of eagles' wings among these pre-Neolithic people
New light on early caprine herding strategies from isotope analysis
Animal domestication in the Southern Levant
In this paper seven researchers working in the southern Levant present their views as well as new data on the origins of domestic animals in this region. The papers cover the chronological development of this phenomenon, from the first sedentary communities in the Natufian, to the advent of the first domestic caprines in the Mid/Late Pre-Pottery Neolithic B. In addition, the domestication of cattle and pig in the Pre-Pottery Neolithic С is discus…
Stable Isotope Evidence of Diet at Neolithic Çatalhöyük, Turkey
Mammal remains from the eastern Jordanian Neolithic, and the nature of caprine herding in the steppe
This paper draws together the results of studies of mammalian remains from a series of 10 Neolithic sites in eastern Jordan. The sites span the mid- 10 to the 8th millennia BP and are assigned to the Pre-Pottery Neolithic В (PPNB) and Late Neolithic (LN), and are in various areas of the present dry-steppe and sub-desert. Relative proportions of identified mammalian taxa from each animal bone assemblage are presented; chronological and geographica…
The age of Stonehenge
Stonehenge is the icon of British prehistory, and continues to inspire ingenious investigations and interpretations. A current campaign of research, being waged by probably the strongest archaeological team ever assembled, is focused not just on the monument, but on its landscape, its hinterland and the monuments within it. The campaign is still in progress, but the story so far is well worth reporting. Revisiting records of 100 years ago the aut…
Cattle Cults of the Arabian Neolithic and Early Territorial Societies
At the cusp of food production, Near Eastern societies adopted new territorial practices, including archaeologically visible sedentism and nonsedentary social defenses more challenging to identify archaeologically. New archaeological and paleoenvironmental evidence for Arabia's earliest-known sacrifices points to territorial maintenance in arid highland southern Yemen. Here sedentism was not an option prior to agriculture. Seasonally mobile pasto…
Cattle Domestication at Çatalhöyük Revisited
Previous articleNext article FreeReportsCattle Domestication at Çatalhöyük Revisited1NerissaRussell, LouiseMartin, and HijlkeBuitenhuisNerissaRussellDepartment of Anthropology, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853, U.S.A. ([email protected]) (Russell), Institute of Archaeology, University College London, London, U.K. (Martin), Center for Archaeological Research and Consultancy, Groningen, The Netherlands. (Buitenhuis). 21 iii 05, LouiseMartinDepa…
Building memories
Russell N., Martin L. & Twiss K.C. 2009. — Building memories: commemorative deposits at Çatalhöyük. Anthropozoologica 44(1): 103-128.Neolithic Çatalhöyük, Turkey, is well known for its incorporation of animal parts into architecture: bucrania, horns in benches, etc. We examine the less visible placement of items in pits or built into remodeling inside houses to commemorate particular events. Animal parts feature prominently in these deposits, typ…
Ancient DNA analysis of 101 cattle remains
The animate house, the institutionalization of the household in Neolithic central Anatolia
This paper explores the effectiveness of a domestic mode of production model in explaining the development of Neolithic households in South-west Asia, using evidence from the site of Boncuklu in central Anatolia. We present evidence that Boncuklu households were institutionalized through repetitive practice, highly structured and symbolically charged domestic activity, ritual and symbolism stressing the animate and transcendental nature of the ho…
Seasonal aggregation and ritual slaughter
Occupying wide open spaces? Late Pleistocene hunter–gatherer activities in the Eastern Levant
Broad spectrum or specialised activity? Birds and tortoises at the Epipalaeolithic site of Wadi Jilat 22 in the eastern Jordan steppe
The analysis of rich bone assemblages from an Epipalaeolithic site in Jordan show that wing feathers were being extracted, probably for ornamental or ceremonial purposes, from eagles and buzzards. These raptors were perhaps caught by luring them with tortoises, evident from smashed shells in the same assemblage. The authors speculate on the symbolic value of eagles' wings among these pre-Neolithic people
Plants and Animals Together
This paper explores plant and animal distributions inside a Neolithic burned house in order to investigate domestic organization in an early farming society. We use GIS to analyze the spatial distributions of plant and animal remains found inside Building 52 at Çatalhöyük in central Anatolia. We examine how plant and animal stores, food and nonfood materials, and wild and domestic taxa were configured spatially. Results shed light on the logistic…
New Light on Final Pleistocene Settlement Diversity in the Azraq Basin (Jordan)
Les fouilles du site daté de l’Épipaléolithique ancien de ‘ Ayn Qasiyya dans l’oasis d’Azraq (Est de la Jordanie) fournissent des données nouvelles et importantes pour notre compréhension des causes de la sédentarisation, des effets écologiques sur l’évolution culturelle, des pratiques funéraires et des relations sociales en Asie du Sud-Ouest à la fi n du Pléistocène. Cet article présente un résumé du travail sur ce site et il fournit les résulta…
Meat outside the freezer
Close companions
Animal Figurines from Neolithic Çatalhöyük
This article presents a study of the zoomorphic figurine assemblage from Neolithic Çatalhöyük in central Turkey. Figurine manufacture, depositional condition and contexts of discard are discussed, to find that their fragmentation seems related to fabrication methods and use rather than intentional breakage. We show animal figurines deriving mostly from midden contexts, indicating an expediency in their use. Analysis then focuses on a sub-set of 1…
The Neolithic site of Jebel Oraf 2, northern Saudi Arabia
Pig domestication and husbandry practices in the middle Neolithic of the Wei River Valley, northwest China
A rival to Stonehenge? Geophysical survey at Stanton Drew, England
The development of geophysical survey remains a spearhead-priority for new research and cultural resource management alike - since geophysics can find and map sites without destroying them. However, there are current weaknesses of sensitivity and resolution - the instruments cannot easily "see" small features like graves and post-holes of which so many ancient sites are principally composed. Great hopes have been invested in caesium vapour magnet…
Oued Beht, Morocco
The Maghreb (north-west Africa) played an important role during the Palaeolithic and later in connecting the western Mediterranean from the Phoenician to Islamic periods. Yet, knowledge of its later prehistory is limited, particularly between c. 4000 and 1000 BC. Here, the authors present the first results of investigations at Oued Beht, Morocco, revealing a hitherto unknown farming society dated to c. 3400-2900 BC. This is currently the earliest…
Stepped frequency ground‐penetrating radar survey with a multi‐element array antenna
A series of trial geophysical surveys were conducted with a 3d‐Radar GeoScope ground‐penetrating radar (GPR) utilizing a multi‐element array antenna. This system offers the potential for rapid data acquisition at very high sample densities over a wide frequency bandwidth. Field tests, conducted over the Roman town at Silchester, Hampshire, UK, suggested that a revised antenna configuration was necessary to obtain optimum results from the system, …
Recent results from the English Heritage caesium magnetometer system in comparison with recent fluxgate gradiometers
Results are presented from a cart‐mounted caesium magnetometer system developed by English Heritage using an array of specially modified Scintrex SM4 sensors, to investigate the application of high sensitivity magnetic survey. The caesium data are compared with equivalent datasets collected with recently developed fluxgate instruments. The underlying instrument noise level for the magnetometer systems is considered together with attempts to quant…
Anglo-Saxon and Earlier Settlement near Drayton Road, Sutton Courtenay, Berkshire
Since E. T. Leeds' excavations of the Anglo-Saxon settlement at Sutton Courtenay in the 1920s and 1930s, aerial photographs revealing large timber buildings, as well as finds of metalwork and coins have suggested that the settlement was more extensive and of higher status than Leeds had imagined. This report reviews this evidence and describes the results of fieldwalking, geophysical survey and small-scale excavation which have provided further d…
The Burqu'/Ruweishid Project
Prehistoric Environment and Settlement in the Azraq Basin
The Azraq project conducted excavations at the Neolithic sites of Azraq 31 and Wadi el-Jilat 32 in 1989. At Azraq 31 we wished to establish whether distinct late PPNB and Late Neolithic occupations existed and whether caprines (= sheep/goat) were herded as early as the late PPNB. Very low numbers of caprines in the late PPNB were documented at Azraq 31. Substantially higher proportions of caprines were found in the Late Neolithic phase. This rais…
Prehistoric Environment and Settlement in the Azraq Basin
Recent excavations in the south-west Azraq Basin (Jordan) have shed significant new light on the origins of pastoralism, the “burin site” phenomenon and arid-land adaptations between the Early Pre-Pottery Neolithic B and the Early Phase of the Late Neolithic. This article outlines results of excavations at four neighbouring sites in the Wadi el-Jilat which were occupied at stages between c. 7,500 and 5,500 B.C. uncalibrated.
Benjamin Franklin, William Hewson and the Craven Street bones
Consuming Passions and Patterns of Consumption, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research and Department of Archaeology, University of Cambridge, 20th September 1997
Animal domestication in the Southern Levant
In this paper seven researchers working in the southern Levant present their views as well as new data on the origins of domestic animals in this region. The papers cover the chronological development of this phenomenon, from the first sedentary communities in the Natufian, to the advent of the first domestic caprines in the Mid/Late Pre-Pottery Neolithic B. In addition, the domestication of cattle and pig in the Pre-Pottery Neolithic С is discus…
Mammal remains from the eastern Jordanian Neolithic, and the nature of caprine herding in the steppe
This paper draws together the results of studies of mammalian remains from a series of 10 Neolithic sites in eastern Jordan. The sites span the mid- 10 to the 8th millennia BP and are assigned to the Pre-Pottery Neolithic В (PPNB) and Late Neolithic (LN), and are in various areas of the present dry-steppe and sub-desert. Relative proportions of identified mammalian taxa from each animal bone assemblage are presented; chronological and geographica…
Hunting, herding, feasting
Stable Isotope Evidence of Diet at Neolithic Çatalhöyük, Turkey
Ancient DNA analysis of 101 cattle remains
A rival to Stonehenge? Geophysical survey at Stanton Drew, England
The development of geophysical survey remains a spearhead-priority for new research and cultural resource management alike - since geophysics can find and map sites without destroying them. However, there are current weaknesses of sensitivity and resolution - the instruments cannot easily "see" small features like graves and post-holes of which so many ancient sites are principally composed. Great hopes have been invested in caesium vapour magnet…
Cattle Domestication at Çatalhöyük Revisited
Previous articleNext article FreeReportsCattle Domestication at Çatalhöyük Revisited1NerissaRussell, LouiseMartin, and HijlkeBuitenhuisNerissaRussellDepartment of Anthropology, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853, U.S.A. ([email protected]) (Russell), Institute of Archaeology, University College London, London, U.K. (Martin), Center for Archaeological Research and Consultancy, Groningen, The Netherlands. (Buitenhuis). 21 iii 05, LouiseMartinDepa…
Fauna from the Natufian and PPNA Cave Site of Iraq ed-Dubb in Highland Jordan
L’occupation de la grotte Iraq ed-Dubb a pris place pendant le Natoufien récent et le PPNA. Elle nous procure une rare occasion d’étudier le comportement humain dans un même site au cours d’une période de changements climatiques importants. Les chasseurs-cueilleurs utilisaient alors des techniques novatrices de gestion des plantes, préludes au futur style de vie fermier. Cet article se penche principalement sur les analyses zooarchéologiques et t…
The Institute of Archaeology research teams at Ҫatalhöyük
This is the first in a series of articles to appear in Archaeology International highlighting the Institute of Archaeology’s involvement in the Çatalhöyük Research Project. In this first piece, the Institute’s teams are introduced and their research areas briefly outlined, with the aim of showing the range of work that Institute researchers and students undertake. Future issues of Archaeology InternationaI will provide a forum for individual team…
Recent results from the English Heritage caesium magnetometer system in comparison with recent fluxgate gradiometers
Results are presented from a cart‐mounted caesium magnetometer system developed by English Heritage using an array of specially modified Scintrex SM4 sensors, to investigate the application of high sensitivity magnetic survey. The caesium data are compared with equivalent datasets collected with recently developed fluxgate instruments. The underlying instrument noise level for the magnetometer systems is considered together with attempts to quant…
La statistique sans formule mathématique. Comprendre la logique et maîtriser les outils
(2007). La statistique sans formule mathematique. Comprendre la logique et maitriser les outils. Loisir et Societe / Society and Leisure: Vol. 30, No. 2, pp. 529-532
New light on early caprine herding strategies from isotope analysis
Anglo-Saxon and Earlier Settlement near Drayton Road, Sutton Courtenay, Berkshire
Since E. T. Leeds' excavations of the Anglo-Saxon settlement at Sutton Courtenay in the 1920s and 1930s, aerial photographs revealing large timber buildings, as well as finds of metalwork and coins have suggested that the settlement was more extensive and of higher status than Leeds had imagined. This report reviews this evidence and describes the results of fieldwalking, geophysical survey and small-scale excavation which have provided further d…
The age of Stonehenge
Stonehenge is the icon of British prehistory, and continues to inspire ingenious investigations and interpretations. A current campaign of research, being waged by probably the strongest archaeological team ever assembled, is focused not just on the monument, but on its landscape, its hinterland and the monuments within it. The campaign is still in progress, but the story so far is well worth reporting. Revisiting records of 100 years ago the aut…
New Light on Final Pleistocene Settlement Diversity in the Azraq Basin (Jordan)
Les fouilles du site daté de l’Épipaléolithique ancien de ‘ Ayn Qasiyya dans l’oasis d’Azraq (Est de la Jordanie) fournissent des données nouvelles et importantes pour notre compréhension des causes de la sédentarisation, des effets écologiques sur l’évolution culturelle, des pratiques funéraires et des relations sociales en Asie du Sud-Ouest à la fi n du Pléistocène. Cet article présente un résumé du travail sur ce site et il fournit les résulta…
Building memories
Russell N., Martin L. & Twiss K.C. 2009. — Building memories: commemorative deposits at Çatalhöyük. Anthropozoologica 44(1): 103-128.Neolithic Çatalhöyük, Turkey, is well known for its incorporation of animal parts into architecture: bucrania, horns in benches, etc. We examine the less visible placement of items in pits or built into remodeling inside houses to commemorate particular events. Animal parts feature prominently in these deposits, typ…
Plants and Animals Together
This paper explores plant and animal distributions inside a Neolithic burned house in order to investigate domestic organization in an early farming society. We use GIS to analyze the spatial distributions of plant and animal remains found inside Building 52 at Çatalhöyük in central Anatolia. We examine how plant and animal stores, food and nonfood materials, and wild and domestic taxa were configured spatially. Results shed light on the logistic…
Hunting Practices at an Eastern Jordanian Epipalaeolithic Aggregation Site
Two Epipalaeolithic sites, Kharaneh IV and Wadi Jilat 6 in the Azraq basin of eastern Jordan, are much larger than any others of the same period. They are locations to which hunters/gatherers/foragers returned across thousands of years. This paper explores human settlement and mobility patterns at these unusual sites through the perspective of animal resources. The predominant prey were gazelle but with no evidence for specialized targeting, rath…
Stepped frequency ground‐penetrating radar survey with a multi‐element array antenna
A series of trial geophysical surveys were conducted with a 3d‐Radar GeoScope ground‐penetrating radar (GPR) utilizing a multi‐element array antenna. This system offers the potential for rapid data acquisition at very high sample densities over a wide frequency bandwidth. Field tests, conducted over the Roman town at Silchester, Hampshire, UK, suggested that a revised antenna configuration was necessary to obtain optimum results from the system, …
Benjamin Franklin, William Hewson and the Craven Street bones
Renovation of the house in London where Benjamin Franklin lived has led to the discovery of the remains of a late eighteenth-century anatomy school. Investigations by bioarchaeologists from the Institute are revealing William Hewson's remarkable contribution to the development of anatomical science
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