VIGNE , Jean-Denis

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Early Domestic Animals in Italy, Istria, the Tyrrhenian Islands and Southern France

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Late Pleistocene and Early Holocene cattle in the northern Near East: results of the osteometric studies

The site of Klimonas, in the district of Limassol, Cyprus constitutes the most ancient human settlement on the island. Klimonas was settled around 8800 cal BC (PPNA). Beyond the study of the site itself, Klimonas and its surroundings can provide important information on the palaeoenvironment and palaeotopography of the region. Its position, on...

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Depuis des centaines de milliers d'années, l'humanité produit des outils, échange des biens et des gènes, s'approprie de nouveaux milieux et les transforme. Du berceau africain jusqu'au peuplement du Grand Nord et des Amériques, de nouveaux territoires ont été conquis, des continents découverts, des bras de mer traversés, des îles colonisées,...

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The interdisciplinary approach and analytical tools applied in the last 30 years in the Amathous region (Cyprus),especially at the sites of Shillourokambos and Klimonas, generated a huge quantity of archaeological, geo-archaeological and bioarchaeological data. They significantly contributed to document the interactions betweenthe early...

The interdisciplinary approach and analytical tools applied in the last 30 years in the Amathous region (Cyprus), especially at the sites of Shillourokambos and Klimonas, generated a huge quantity of archaeological, geoarchaeological and bioarchaeological data. They significantly contributed to document the interactions between the early...

Plusieurs directions de recherche, avec des développements sans doute inégaux, ont été identifiées lors des prospectives d'Avignon avec l'ambition de contribuer à l'émergence de nouvelles questions, méthodes ou applications dans les champs croisés des sciences de l'Homme, de la société et de l'environnement. La principale orientation émergente...

L'exploitation du chien, trait culturel chasséen ou caractère des sociétés européennes au tournant des 5e/4e millénaires ?

Regulation of fertility is an important aspect of reproductive control in farm animals which have inherited vestiges of seasonal reproduction from their wild ancestors. Cattle and sheep seem to have followed different paths in this respect. Like the current representatives of their wild ancestor the oriental mouflon, modern sheep under...

Agropastoral systems in the Mediterranean take a great variety of forms in response to a wide range of climatic, orographic and socioeconomic contexts. The predominance of caprines (sheep and goat) is a frequent common feature, and a particularity is the existence of autumn lambing. Annual rhythms of pastoral systems are strongly determined by...