JIMÉNEZ-MANCHÓN , Sergio

Current evidence supports the idea that animal domestication occurred in multiple loci and at different time periods throughout the Near East rather than according to a single origin. In this scenario, the southern Levant is being increasingly considered as another presumed primary centre of goat domestication, alongside eastern Anatolia and...

Two major settlements were established in the Empordà region (north-eastern Iberian Peninsula) in the Iron Age (6th-2nd centuries BC), 15 km from each other: the Greek colony of Empúries and the Iberian city of Ullastret. This coexistence of two different ethnic entities in the same region – and the same environment – presents an opportunity to...

Dental microwear (DMA) is a tool used for the palaeodiet reconstruction of animals in Archaeology. The use of this proxy on domestic ungulates provides valuable information to reconstruct livestock strategies, yet it presents several methodological limitations. Most studies have been carried out using low-magnification DMA and the...

Dental microwear texture analysis (DMTA) is a proxy used for characterising vertebrate palaeodiets in archaeological and palaeontological studies through the acquisition of 3D micro-texture height maps using confocal microscopy. Unlike previous techniques, DMTA is a quantitative method and enables reproducibility and repeatability. However,...