Mauro Rizzetto
Biographic Data
| ID | 4617879 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mauro Rizzetto |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mauro |
| FAMILY NAME | Rizzetto |
| SIGNATURE | RIZZETTO M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Ca' Foscari University of Venice |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2409-792X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 34 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 13 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Duck tales from Venice
The Venetian Lagoon is a major wintering site for migratory birds, while also sustaining a diverse resident avifauna. This study explores the past interplay between human communities and the wild bird populations of the lagoon, from Roman times to the end of the Middle Ages. It employs traditional zooarchaeological analyses (taxonomic frequencies, ageing, biometry), medullary bone analysis, and a recently developed biometric method designed to id…
Animal husbandry in the Roman and medieval Lagoon of Venice, Italy
This study investigates animal husbandry in the Roman and medieval Lagoon of Venice, relying on zooarchaeological evidence. It draws on taxonomic frequencies and ageing data, while placing particular emphasis on biometric analyses. In the Roman period, settlement concentrated in the city of Altino. As in other western regions of the Empire, along the endo-lagoonal coast cattle husbandry played a major role in agricultural work and large-scale mea…
The Rural Economy in Transition
Cervified
This paper presents a new method for differentiating postcranial bone remains of red deer ( Cervus elaphus ), fallow deer ( Dama dama ), and roe deer ( Capreolus capreolus ) from European archaeological contexts. These species have very similar bone morphology and partly overlapping size ranges, often preventing species-level identification in zooarchaeological research. Traditional methods, such as the use of diagnostic morphological criteria, o…
Presenting the RomAniDat data community and an archaeofaunal dataset for Roman Italy
Livestock size and the Roman-Early Anglo-Saxon transition
Iron Age Settlements and Roman Roads
Excavations along an 18.5km stretch of the Angelinos trunk water main in north Oxfordshire between Tackley and Milton uncovered a panoply of prehistoric to post-medieval remains. Residual sherds of Beaker pottery suggest Chalcolithic/early Bronze Age activity within the vicinity of the development, but most of the excavated features were middle Iron Age in date, comprising linear boundaries and probable enclosures. At least three areas of domesti…
Oxford Handbook of Zooarchaeology
Bird exploitation in an Early Anglo-Saxon community
Historical zooarchaeology of colonialism, mercantilism, and indigenous dispossession
The investigation of the Dutch East India Company’s (VOC) meat industry that was emplaced at the Cape of Good Hope, South Africa reveals information about livestock production, slaughter, and consumption at the colonial entrepot in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. The investigation consisted of five faunal samples including three sites from the Castle of Good Hope; the Moat, the Granary (F2), and Donkergat (DKG); Elsenburg; and the Dump …
Advances in hunter-gatherer research in Mexico
Interest in the first hunter-gatherer populations of Mexico has increased in the last fifteen years. Exploration of the Late Pleistocene localities involved in the early peopling of Mexico, including the discovery of new ones and reanalysis of known ones, and the application of new methods and techniques (e.g. AMS radiocarbon dating, stable isotopes, scanning electron microscopy, palaeobotanical analysis) have increased. Archaeozoology has contri…
Animal use at early colonies on the southeastern coast of the United States
Data from three early European-sponsored colonies in North America indicate that changes in animal use occurred quickly. Over half of the meat from vertebrate sources in a Spanish assemblage associated with the first permanent European settlement on the Atlantic coast (Florida) and a French assemblage from the northern coast of the Gulf of Mexico near Mobile (Alabama) are from local, wild animals. The English assemblage associated with Charles To…
Farming, social change, and state formation in Southeast Asia
Farming in Southeast Asia is dominated two major crops, rice and millet, and domestic pigs, cattle, water buffalo, chickens, and dogs. The domestication of these species took place in China, and the first farmers began to settle Southeast Asia in the early second millennium bc. They integrated with the indigenous hunter-gatherers, and were heavily reliant not only on their crops and domestic animals, but also on hunting, gathering, and fishing. A…
Behavioural inferences from Late Pleistocene Aboriginal Australia
Detailed research into marsupial behavioural ecology and modelling of past Aboriginal exploitation of terrestrial fauna has been scarce. Poor bone preservation is one limiting factor in Australian archaeological sites, but so has been the lack of research concerning the ecology and physiology of Australia’s endemic fauna. Much research has focused on marine and fresh-water shell-fish found in coastal and inland midden sites. Detailed studies into…
The Oxford Handbook of Zooarchaeology
This book presents a survey of world archaeology, from the point of view of animal remain studies. It can be considered as a showcase for world zooarchaeology. Forty-eight chapters written by researchers from twenty-five countries discuss archaeological investigations in five different continents. The geographic range covers the Arctic as well as the Tropics, islands and continental land masses, marine shores, forests, hills, and mountains. Human…
The exploitation of aquatic environments by the Olmec and Epi-Olmec
Hydrographic features dominate the Olmec heartland. Fishing, travel, transport, and trade via watercraft were essential parts of daily life. This chapter synthesizes archaeofaunal, iconographic, and biological data about human–animal relationships during the Formative period in the Gulf Coastal lowlands of Veracruz, Mexico. Aquatic environments were reliable sources of physical sustenance for the Olmec and Epi-Olmec, and fresh-water fish, turtles…
Tracking the trade in animal pelts in early historic eastern North America
This chapter highlights zooarchaeology’s contribution to our understanding of the trade in animal pelts (furs, skins, and hides) that flourished between Native Americans and Europeans in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries in eastern North America. Hides from white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) dominated exchanges in the southern trades, whereas the northern trades focused mainly on acquiring pelts from American beaver (Castor canaden…
Years of communal bison hunting in western North America
For the past 13,000 years Indians in the North American Great Plains hunted bison (Bison bison and B. antiquus) in large communally organized drive operations. This chapter briefly describes the taxonomy of fossil and living bison, the behaviour of modern bison, and what is known from ethnohistoric and archaeological sources about the ways that Indians conducted these drives, including the use of foot surrounds, cliff jumps, arroyo traps, and pou…
Humans and mammals in the Upper Palaeolithic of Russia
This chapter focuses on the mammoth (Mammuthus primigenius) and large canid (wolf (Canis lupus) and/or dog (Canis familiaris)) assemblages recorded at Upper Palaeolithic sites from the Russian Plain and Siberia. It accordingly pursues the following questions: (1) Is the mammoth ubiquitously found in the Upper Palaeolithic sites of Russia?, (2) Are large canids as often present at Siberian sites as they are at sites from the Russian Plain? and (3)…
The zooarchaeology of complexity and specialization during the Upper Palaeolithic in Western Europe
Over the last twenty years attempts have been made to determine the nature of Upper Palaeolithic hunting specialization. This chapter traces assemblage structural ‘specialization’, where faunal assemblages are dominated by a single species, vs ‘diversity’, in which all recorded species are well represented, between 45,000 and 10,000 bp (Châtelperronian to Azilian), and demonstrates regularity in the archaeozoological record. It moves away from th…
The exploitation of aquatic resources in Holocene West Africa
In sub-Saharan West Africa, substantial archaeological evidence only appears from about 2000 bc. From that time onwards, sites with large proportions of fish-bones and large numbers of fish taxa, including open-water fish, are known. Deep-water fishing requires a well-developed fishing technology. Links have been made between the sites and modern, specialized fishers. However, because of the high component of crops in the diets of modern fishers,…
Middle and Later Stone Age hunters and their prey in southern Africa
Identifications of animal remains from southern African Stone Age sites are complicated by the abundancy of taxa, skeletal differences, a wide variety of habitats, and the fragmented condition of most of the bone samples. Studies in osteomorphology and osteometry are essential. There are regional variations in species sizes combined with changes in bone sizes within and between taxa. Seasonality and animal migrations are demonstrated in the highl…
Livestock Changes at the Beginning and End of the Roman Period in Britain
This article reviews aspects of the development of animal husbandry in Roman Britain, focusing in particular on the Iron Age/Roman and Roman/early medieval transitions. By analysing the two chronological extremes of the period of Roman influence in Britain we try to identify the core characteristics of Romano-British husbandry by using case studies, in particular from south-eastern Britain, investigated from the perspective of the butchery and mo…
Livestock Changes at the Beginning and End of the Roman Period in Britain
This article reviews aspects of the development of animal husbandry in Roman Britain, focusing in particular on the Iron Age/Roman and Roman/early medieval transitions. By analysing the two chronological extremes of the period of Roman influence in Britain we try to identify the core characteristics of Romano-British husbandry by using case studies, in particular from south-eastern Britain, investigated from the perspective of the butchery and mo…
Livestock size and the Roman-Early Anglo-Saxon transition
Tracking the trade in animal pelts in early historic eastern North America
This chapter highlights zooarchaeology’s contribution to our understanding of the trade in animal pelts (furs, skins, and hides) that flourished between Native Americans and Europeans in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries in eastern North America. Hides from white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) dominated exchanges in the southern trades, whereas the northern trades focused mainly on acquiring pelts from American beaver (Castor canaden…
Middle and Later Stone Age hunters and their prey in southern Africa
Identifications of animal remains from southern African Stone Age sites are complicated by the abundancy of taxa, skeletal differences, a wide variety of habitats, and the fragmented condition of most of the bone samples. Studies in osteomorphology and osteometry are essential. There are regional variations in species sizes combined with changes in bone sizes within and between taxa. Seasonality and animal migrations are demonstrated in the highl…
Years of communal bison hunting in western North America
For the past 13,000 years Indians in the North American Great Plains hunted bison (Bison bison and B. antiquus) in large communally organized drive operations. This chapter briefly describes the taxonomy of fossil and living bison, the behaviour of modern bison, and what is known from ethnohistoric and archaeological sources about the ways that Indians conducted these drives, including the use of foot surrounds, cliff jumps, arroyo traps, and pou…
Humans and mammals in the Upper Palaeolithic of Russia
This chapter focuses on the mammoth (Mammuthus primigenius) and large canid (wolf (Canis lupus) and/or dog (Canis familiaris)) assemblages recorded at Upper Palaeolithic sites from the Russian Plain and Siberia. It accordingly pursues the following questions: (1) Is the mammoth ubiquitously found in the Upper Palaeolithic sites of Russia?, (2) Are large canids as often present at Siberian sites as they are at sites from the Russian Plain? and (3)…
Historical zooarchaeology of colonialism, mercantilism, and indigenous dispossession
The investigation of the Dutch East India Company’s (VOC) meat industry that was emplaced at the Cape of Good Hope, South Africa reveals information about livestock production, slaughter, and consumption at the colonial entrepot in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. The investigation consisted of five faunal samples including three sites from the Castle of Good Hope; the Moat, the Granary (F2), and Donkergat (DKG); Elsenburg; and the Dump …
Advances in hunter-gatherer research in Mexico
Interest in the first hunter-gatherer populations of Mexico has increased in the last fifteen years. Exploration of the Late Pleistocene localities involved in the early peopling of Mexico, including the discovery of new ones and reanalysis of known ones, and the application of new methods and techniques (e.g. AMS radiocarbon dating, stable isotopes, scanning electron microscopy, palaeobotanical analysis) have increased. Archaeozoology has contri…
Animal use at early colonies on the southeastern coast of the United States
Data from three early European-sponsored colonies in North America indicate that changes in animal use occurred quickly. Over half of the meat from vertebrate sources in a Spanish assemblage associated with the first permanent European settlement on the Atlantic coast (Florida) and a French assemblage from the northern coast of the Gulf of Mexico near Mobile (Alabama) are from local, wild animals. The English assemblage associated with Charles To…
Farming, social change, and state formation in Southeast Asia
Farming in Southeast Asia is dominated two major crops, rice and millet, and domestic pigs, cattle, water buffalo, chickens, and dogs. The domestication of these species took place in China, and the first farmers began to settle Southeast Asia in the early second millennium bc. They integrated with the indigenous hunter-gatherers, and were heavily reliant not only on their crops and domestic animals, but also on hunting, gathering, and fishing. A…
Behavioural inferences from Late Pleistocene Aboriginal Australia
Detailed research into marsupial behavioural ecology and modelling of past Aboriginal exploitation of terrestrial fauna has been scarce. Poor bone preservation is one limiting factor in Australian archaeological sites, but so has been the lack of research concerning the ecology and physiology of Australia’s endemic fauna. Much research has focused on marine and fresh-water shell-fish found in coastal and inland midden sites. Detailed studies into…
The Oxford Handbook of Zooarchaeology
This book presents a survey of world archaeology, from the point of view of animal remain studies. It can be considered as a showcase for world zooarchaeology. Forty-eight chapters written by researchers from twenty-five countries discuss archaeological investigations in five different continents. The geographic range covers the Arctic as well as the Tropics, islands and continental land masses, marine shores, forests, hills, and mountains. Human…
The exploitation of aquatic environments by the Olmec and Epi-Olmec
Hydrographic features dominate the Olmec heartland. Fishing, travel, transport, and trade via watercraft were essential parts of daily life. This chapter synthesizes archaeofaunal, iconographic, and biological data about human–animal relationships during the Formative period in the Gulf Coastal lowlands of Veracruz, Mexico. Aquatic environments were reliable sources of physical sustenance for the Olmec and Epi-Olmec, and fresh-water fish, turtles…
Tracking the trade in animal pelts in early historic eastern North America
This chapter highlights zooarchaeology’s contribution to our understanding of the trade in animal pelts (furs, skins, and hides) that flourished between Native Americans and Europeans in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries in eastern North America. Hides from white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) dominated exchanges in the southern trades, whereas the northern trades focused mainly on acquiring pelts from American beaver (Castor canaden…
Years of communal bison hunting in western North America
For the past 13,000 years Indians in the North American Great Plains hunted bison (Bison bison and B. antiquus) in large communally organized drive operations. This chapter briefly describes the taxonomy of fossil and living bison, the behaviour of modern bison, and what is known from ethnohistoric and archaeological sources about the ways that Indians conducted these drives, including the use of foot surrounds, cliff jumps, arroyo traps, and pou…
Humans and mammals in the Upper Palaeolithic of Russia
This chapter focuses on the mammoth (Mammuthus primigenius) and large canid (wolf (Canis lupus) and/or dog (Canis familiaris)) assemblages recorded at Upper Palaeolithic sites from the Russian Plain and Siberia. It accordingly pursues the following questions: (1) Is the mammoth ubiquitously found in the Upper Palaeolithic sites of Russia?, (2) Are large canids as often present at Siberian sites as they are at sites from the Russian Plain? and (3)…
The zooarchaeology of complexity and specialization during the Upper Palaeolithic in Western Europe
Over the last twenty years attempts have been made to determine the nature of Upper Palaeolithic hunting specialization. This chapter traces assemblage structural ‘specialization’, where faunal assemblages are dominated by a single species, vs ‘diversity’, in which all recorded species are well represented, between 45,000 and 10,000 bp (Châtelperronian to Azilian), and demonstrates regularity in the archaeozoological record. It moves away from th…
The exploitation of aquatic resources in Holocene West Africa
In sub-Saharan West Africa, substantial archaeological evidence only appears from about 2000 bc. From that time onwards, sites with large proportions of fish-bones and large numbers of fish taxa, including open-water fish, are known. Deep-water fishing requires a well-developed fishing technology. Links have been made between the sites and modern, specialized fishers. However, because of the high component of crops in the diets of modern fishers,…
Middle and Later Stone Age hunters and their prey in southern Africa
Identifications of animal remains from southern African Stone Age sites are complicated by the abundancy of taxa, skeletal differences, a wide variety of habitats, and the fragmented condition of most of the bone samples. Studies in osteomorphology and osteometry are essential. There are regional variations in species sizes combined with changes in bone sizes within and between taxa. Seasonality and animal migrations are demonstrated in the highl…
Livestock Changes at the Beginning and End of the Roman Period in Britain
This article reviews aspects of the development of animal husbandry in Roman Britain, focusing in particular on the Iron Age/Roman and Roman/early medieval transitions. By analysing the two chronological extremes of the period of Roman influence in Britain we try to identify the core characteristics of Romano-British husbandry by using case studies, in particular from south-eastern Britain, investigated from the perspective of the butchery and mo…
Oxford Handbook of Zooarchaeology
Bird exploitation in an Early Anglo-Saxon community
Iron Age Settlements and Roman Roads
Excavations along an 18.5km stretch of the Angelinos trunk water main in north Oxfordshire between Tackley and Milton uncovered a panoply of prehistoric to post-medieval remains. Residual sherds of Beaker pottery suggest Chalcolithic/early Bronze Age activity within the vicinity of the development, but most of the excavated features were middle Iron Age in date, comprising linear boundaries and probable enclosures. At least three areas of domesti…
Livestock size and the Roman-Early Anglo-Saxon transition
Presenting the RomAniDat data community and an archaeofaunal dataset for Roman Italy
Duck tales from Venice
The Venetian Lagoon is a major wintering site for migratory birds, while also sustaining a diverse resident avifauna. This study explores the past interplay between human communities and the wild bird populations of the lagoon, from Roman times to the end of the Middle Ages. It employs traditional zooarchaeological analyses (taxonomic frequencies, ageing, biometry), medullary bone analysis, and a recently developed biometric method designed to id…
Animal husbandry in the Roman and medieval Lagoon of Venice, Italy
This study investigates animal husbandry in the Roman and medieval Lagoon of Venice, relying on zooarchaeological evidence. It draws on taxonomic frequencies and ageing data, while placing particular emphasis on biometric analyses. In the Roman period, settlement concentrated in the city of Altino. As in other western regions of the Empire, along the endo-lagoonal coast cattle husbandry played a major role in agricultural work and large-scale mea…
The Rural Economy in Transition
Cervified
This paper presents a new method for differentiating postcranial bone remains of red deer ( Cervus elaphus ), fallow deer ( Dama dama ), and roe deer ( Capreolus capreolus ) from European archaeological contexts. These species have very similar bone morphology and partly overlapping size ranges, often preventing species-level identification in zooarchaeological research. Traditional methods, such as the use of diagnostic morphological criteria, o…
Archaeology (18 works) · Geography (18 works) · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (15 works) · Biology (14 works) · Ecology (11 works) · Agriculture (8 works) · Ecology (8 works) · History (8 works) · Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology (6 works) · Zooarchaeology (6 works)