Valasia Isaakidou
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 97807 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Valasia Isaakidou |
| PRENOMES | Valasia |
| SOBRENOME | Isaakidou |
| ASSINATURA | ISAAKIDOU V |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Oxford |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0358-3179 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 16 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 252 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 16 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2002 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
Wet Season Carbon (δ 13 C) and Nitrogen (δ 15 N) Composition of Modern Plants as Isotopic Framework for Agropastoral and Palaeoecological Studies in Northern Greece
Mediterranean wetlands are one of Europe's most vital and endangered biodiversity hotspots. This study determined the carbon (δ 13 C) and nitrogen (δ 15 N) isotope values of modern plants to construct an isotopic framework by which to contextualize agropastoral management in and around past wetland ecosystems. Dispilio is a Neolithic site (5700–3600 cal bce ) on the shore of Lake Kastoria, western Greek Macedonia, where ongoing studies are explor…
Management of feral goats Capra hircus Linnaeus, 1758 in insular southern Greece
Halstead, Paul, Isaakidou, Valasia (2024): Management of feral goats Capra hircus Linnaeus, 1758 in insular southern Greece: implications for prehistory. Anthropozoologica 59 (6): 77-95, DOI: 10.5252/anthropozoologica2024v58a6, URL: https://sciencepress.mnhn.fr/sites/default/files/articles/pdf/anthropozoologica2024v59a6.pdf
Τhe domestication of southwest Asian 'farmyard animals
Understanding early animal domestication is complicated by disagreement over what, in cultural terms, differentiates domestic (closely managed? privately owned?) from wild and by the difficulty of distinguishing these categories zooarchaeologically. We describe recent feral populations of goats, sheep, cattle and pigs in Greece, comprising descendants of animals escaped or released from controlled domestic herds but remaining in private ownership…
Changing Land Use and Political Economy at Neolithic and Bronze Age Knossos, Crete
Excavations at Knossos have uncovered faunal and archaeobotanical archives spanning the Neolithic and Bronze Age (7th–2nd millennia bce ), during which one of Europe’s earliest known farming settlements developed into its first major urban settlement and centre of one of its oldest regional states. Through stable isotope (δ 13 C, δ 15 N) analysis of seeds and bones (as evidence for the growing conditions of cereal and pulse crops and for the type…
Urban form and scale shaped the agroecology of early ‘cities’ in northern Mesopotamia, the Aegean and Central Europe
Agricultural extensification refers to an expansive, low‐input production strategy that is land rather than labour limited. Here, we present a robust method, using the archaeological proxies of cereal grain nitrogen isotope values and settlement size, to investigate the relationship between agricultural intensity and population size at Neolithic to Bronze/Iron Age settlement sites in northern Mesopotamia, the Aegean and south‐west Germany. We con…
The ‘Wild’ Goats of Ancient Crete
Animal carcass processing, cooking and consumption at Early Neolithic Revenia-Korinou, northern Greece
From texts to teeth
Strontium isotope evidence for human mobility in the Neolithic of northern Greece
Strontium isotope ratios are widely used in archaeology to differentiate between local and non-local populations. Herein, strontium isotope ratios of 36 human tooth enamels from seven archaeological sites spanning the Early to Late Neolithic of northern Greece (7th–5th millennia B.C.E.) were analysed with the aim of providing new information relating to the movement of humans across the region. Local bioavailable 87Sr/86Sr signals were establishe…
Meaningful Materials? Bone Artefacts and Symbolism in the Early Bronze Age Aegean
The symbolically laden use of materials is well documented ethnographically but hard to demonstrate archaeologically, especially for animal bones and teeth, use of which in post‐Neolithic contexts is commonly considered expedient. Early Bronze Age southern Aegean mortuary assemblages have yielded three distinctive classes of bone artefact. Comparison with contemporary unworked bone assemblages and contextually or formally related objects in other…
A bottom-up view of food surplus
We use stable isotope analysis of crop, faunal and human remains to investigate agricultural strategies and diet at EBA-LBA Archontiko and MBA-LBA Thessaloniki Toumba. Crop production strategies varied between settlements, phases and species; flexibility is also apparent within the crop storesof individual houses. Escalating manuring intensity at LBA Thessaloniki Toumba coincides with large co-residential ‘blocks’ geared towards hoarding of agric…
Refining human palaeodietary reconstruction using amino acid δ15N values of plants, animals and humans
An established method of estimating the trophic level of an organism is through stable isotope analysis of its tissues and those of its diet. This method has been used in archaeology to reconstruct past human diet from the stable nitrogen isotope (δ15N) values of human and herbivore bone collagen. However, this approach, using the 15N-enrichment of human bone collagen δ15N values over associated herbivore bone collagen δ15N values to predict the …
Life and Death of a Bronze Age House
In 2010, a portion of a well-preserved domestic building dating to the later part of Early Minoan (EM) I was excavated at Priniatikos Pyrgos, east Crete. Though only a small portion of this house was available to investigate, there was clear evidence for several architectural and habitation phases. The final domestic activities were particularly well preserved because the building was deliberately destroyed in an event that included burning. Ther…
Farming regimes in Neolithic Europe
Sorting the Sheep from the Goats
Burnt animal sacrifice at the Mycenaean 'Palace of Nestor', Pylos
The burnt sacrifice of bare (defleshed) bones, described in Homer's Odyssey and well documented from Archaic and Classical Greece, is now clearly attested by burnt faunal remains from the 'Palace of Nestor' at Mycenaean Pylos. This evidance is of great importance for understanding both the historical role of sacrifice in Greek religion and the significance of fensting in Mycenaean palatial society
Sorting the Sheep from the Goats
A bottom-up view of food surplus
We use stable isotope analysis of crop, faunal and human remains to investigate agricultural strategies and diet at EBA-LBA Archontiko and MBA-LBA Thessaloniki Toumba. Crop production strategies varied between settlements, phases and species; flexibility is also apparent within the crop storesof individual houses. Escalating manuring intensity at LBA Thessaloniki Toumba coincides with large co-residential ‘blocks’ geared towards hoarding of agric…
Burnt animal sacrifice at the Mycenaean 'Palace of Nestor', Pylos
The burnt sacrifice of bare (defleshed) bones, described in Homer's Odyssey and well documented from Archaic and Classical Greece, is now clearly attested by burnt faunal remains from the 'Palace of Nestor' at Mycenaean Pylos. This evidance is of great importance for understanding both the historical role of sacrifice in Greek religion and the significance of fensting in Mycenaean palatial society
Refining human palaeodietary reconstruction using amino acid δ15N values of plants, animals and humans
An established method of estimating the trophic level of an organism is through stable isotope analysis of its tissues and those of its diet. This method has been used in archaeology to reconstruct past human diet from the stable nitrogen isotope (δ15N) values of human and herbivore bone collagen. However, this approach, using the 15N-enrichment of human bone collagen δ15N values over associated herbivore bone collagen δ15N values to predict the …
Life and Death of a Bronze Age House
In 2010, a portion of a well-preserved domestic building dating to the later part of Early Minoan (EM) I was excavated at Priniatikos Pyrgos, east Crete. Though only a small portion of this house was available to investigate, there was clear evidence for several architectural and habitation phases. The final domestic activities were particularly well preserved because the building was deliberately destroyed in an event that included burning. Ther…
Changing Land Use and Political Economy at Neolithic and Bronze Age Knossos, Crete
Excavations at Knossos have uncovered faunal and archaeobotanical archives spanning the Neolithic and Bronze Age (7th–2nd millennia bce ), during which one of Europe’s earliest known farming settlements developed into its first major urban settlement and centre of one of its oldest regional states. Through stable isotope (δ 13 C, δ 15 N) analysis of seeds and bones (as evidence for the growing conditions of cereal and pulse crops and for the type…
Urban form and scale shaped the agroecology of early ‘cities’ in northern Mesopotamia, the Aegean and Central Europe
Agricultural extensification refers to an expansive, low‐input production strategy that is land rather than labour limited. Here, we present a robust method, using the archaeological proxies of cereal grain nitrogen isotope values and settlement size, to investigate the relationship between agricultural intensity and population size at Neolithic to Bronze/Iron Age settlement sites in northern Mesopotamia, the Aegean and south‐west Germany. We con…
From texts to teeth
Management of feral goats Capra hircus Linnaeus, 1758 in insular southern Greece
Halstead, Paul, Isaakidou, Valasia (2024): Management of feral goats Capra hircus Linnaeus, 1758 in insular southern Greece: implications for prehistory. Anthropozoologica 59 (6): 77-95, DOI: 10.5252/anthropozoologica2024v58a6, URL: https://sciencepress.mnhn.fr/sites/default/files/articles/pdf/anthropozoologica2024v59a6.pdf
Τhe domestication of southwest Asian 'farmyard animals
Understanding early animal domestication is complicated by disagreement over what, in cultural terms, differentiates domestic (closely managed? privately owned?) from wild and by the difficulty of distinguishing these categories zooarchaeologically. We describe recent feral populations of goats, sheep, cattle and pigs in Greece, comprising descendants of animals escaped or released from controlled domestic herds but remaining in private ownership…
Strontium isotope evidence for human mobility in the Neolithic of northern Greece
Strontium isotope ratios are widely used in archaeology to differentiate between local and non-local populations. Herein, strontium isotope ratios of 36 human tooth enamels from seven archaeological sites spanning the Early to Late Neolithic of northern Greece (7th–5th millennia B.C.E.) were analysed with the aim of providing new information relating to the movement of humans across the region. Local bioavailable 87Sr/86Sr signals were establishe…
Sorting the Sheep from the Goats
Burnt animal sacrifice at the Mycenaean 'Palace of Nestor', Pylos
The burnt sacrifice of bare (defleshed) bones, described in Homer's Odyssey and well documented from Archaic and Classical Greece, is now clearly attested by burnt faunal remains from the 'Palace of Nestor' at Mycenaean Pylos. This evidance is of great importance for understanding both the historical role of sacrifice in Greek religion and the significance of fensting in Mycenaean palatial society
Farming regimes in Neolithic Europe
Refining human palaeodietary reconstruction using amino acid δ15N values of plants, animals and humans
An established method of estimating the trophic level of an organism is through stable isotope analysis of its tissues and those of its diet. This method has been used in archaeology to reconstruct past human diet from the stable nitrogen isotope (δ15N) values of human and herbivore bone collagen. However, this approach, using the 15N-enrichment of human bone collagen δ15N values over associated herbivore bone collagen δ15N values to predict the …
Life and Death of a Bronze Age House
In 2010, a portion of a well-preserved domestic building dating to the later part of Early Minoan (EM) I was excavated at Priniatikos Pyrgos, east Crete. Though only a small portion of this house was available to investigate, there was clear evidence for several architectural and habitation phases. The final domestic activities were particularly well preserved because the building was deliberately destroyed in an event that included burning. Ther…
Meaningful Materials? Bone Artefacts and Symbolism in the Early Bronze Age Aegean
The symbolically laden use of materials is well documented ethnographically but hard to demonstrate archaeologically, especially for animal bones and teeth, use of which in post‐Neolithic contexts is commonly considered expedient. Early Bronze Age southern Aegean mortuary assemblages have yielded three distinctive classes of bone artefact. Comparison with contemporary unworked bone assemblages and contextually or formally related objects in other…
A bottom-up view of food surplus
We use stable isotope analysis of crop, faunal and human remains to investigate agricultural strategies and diet at EBA-LBA Archontiko and MBA-LBA Thessaloniki Toumba. Crop production strategies varied between settlements, phases and species; flexibility is also apparent within the crop storesof individual houses. Escalating manuring intensity at LBA Thessaloniki Toumba coincides with large co-residential ‘blocks’ geared towards hoarding of agric…
Animal carcass processing, cooking and consumption at Early Neolithic Revenia-Korinou, northern Greece
From texts to teeth
Strontium isotope evidence for human mobility in the Neolithic of northern Greece
Strontium isotope ratios are widely used in archaeology to differentiate between local and non-local populations. Herein, strontium isotope ratios of 36 human tooth enamels from seven archaeological sites spanning the Early to Late Neolithic of northern Greece (7th–5th millennia B.C.E.) were analysed with the aim of providing new information relating to the movement of humans across the region. Local bioavailable 87Sr/86Sr signals were establishe…
The ‘Wild’ Goats of Ancient Crete
Changing Land Use and Political Economy at Neolithic and Bronze Age Knossos, Crete
Excavations at Knossos have uncovered faunal and archaeobotanical archives spanning the Neolithic and Bronze Age (7th–2nd millennia bce ), during which one of Europe’s earliest known farming settlements developed into its first major urban settlement and centre of one of its oldest regional states. Through stable isotope (δ 13 C, δ 15 N) analysis of seeds and bones (as evidence for the growing conditions of cereal and pulse crops and for the type…
Urban form and scale shaped the agroecology of early ‘cities’ in northern Mesopotamia, the Aegean and Central Europe
Agricultural extensification refers to an expansive, low‐input production strategy that is land rather than labour limited. Here, we present a robust method, using the archaeological proxies of cereal grain nitrogen isotope values and settlement size, to investigate the relationship between agricultural intensity and population size at Neolithic to Bronze/Iron Age settlement sites in northern Mesopotamia, the Aegean and south‐west Germany. We con…
Management of feral goats Capra hircus Linnaeus, 1758 in insular southern Greece
Halstead, Paul, Isaakidou, Valasia (2024): Management of feral goats Capra hircus Linnaeus, 1758 in insular southern Greece: implications for prehistory. Anthropozoologica 59 (6): 77-95, DOI: 10.5252/anthropozoologica2024v58a6, URL: https://sciencepress.mnhn.fr/sites/default/files/articles/pdf/anthropozoologica2024v59a6.pdf
Τhe domestication of southwest Asian 'farmyard animals
Understanding early animal domestication is complicated by disagreement over what, in cultural terms, differentiates domestic (closely managed? privately owned?) from wild and by the difficulty of distinguishing these categories zooarchaeologically. We describe recent feral populations of goats, sheep, cattle and pigs in Greece, comprising descendants of animals escaped or released from controlled domestic herds but remaining in private ownership…
Wet Season Carbon (δ 13 C) and Nitrogen (δ 15 N) Composition of Modern Plants as Isotopic Framework for Agropastoral and Palaeoecological Studies in Northern Greece
Mediterranean wetlands are one of Europe's most vital and endangered biodiversity hotspots. This study determined the carbon (δ 13 C) and nitrogen (δ 15 N) isotope values of modern plants to construct an isotopic framework by which to contextualize agropastoral management in and around past wetland ecosystems. Dispilio is a Neolithic site (5700–3600 cal bce ) on the shore of Lake Kastoria, western Greek Macedonia, where ongoing studies are explor…
Archaeology (12 obras) · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (12 obras) · Geography (10 obras) · Biology (8 obras) · History (6 obras) · Agriculture (5 obras) · Ancient history (5 obras) · Bronze Age (5 obras) · Ecology (5 obras) · Isotope Analysis in Ecology (4 obras)