Peter Rowley-Conwy

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Peter Rowley-Conwy

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According to Wikipedia, Peter Rowley-Conwy, is a British archaeologist and academic. He was Professor of Archaeology at Durham University from 2007 to 2020, having joined the university as a lecturer in 1990: he is now professor emeritus. He had previously taught and researched at Clare Hall, Cambridge and the Memorial University of Newfoundland.

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Peter Rowley-Conwy's Published Works

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Worldwide Phylogeography of Wild Boar Reveals Multiple Centers of Pig Domestication (2005) (773)
Ancient DNA, pig domestication, and the spread of the Neolithic into Europe (2007) (453)
The Significance of Food Storage Among Hunter-Gatherers: Residence Patterns, Population Densities, and Social Inequalities [and Comments and Reply] (1982) (442)
Transition to farming in Northern Europe: A hunter‐gatherer perspective (1984) (185)
Foraging and farming as niche construction: stable and unstable adaptations (2011) (179)
Hunter-gatherers : an interdisciplinary perspective (2001) (165)
Meat and Marrow Utility Indices for Horse (Equus) (1998) (154)
Gazelle Killing in Stone Age Syria (1987) (145)
Westward Ho! (2011) (133)
Time, change and the archaeology of hunter-gatherers : how original is the 'Original affluent society'? (2001) (122)
How the West Was Lost (2004) (113)
Bad Year Economics: Cultural Responses to Risk and Uncertainty: Saving it for later: storage by prehistoric hunter–gatherers in Europe (1989) (109)
Volatile Compounds in Archaeological Plant Remains and the Maillard Reaction During Decay of Organic Matter (1997) (98)
Distinguishing Wild Boar from Domestic Pigs in Prehistory: A Review of Approaches and Recent Results (2012) (91)
The laziness of the short-distance hunter: The origins of agriculture in western Denmark (1984) (90)
Size and shape of the Eurasian wild boar (Sus scrofa), with a view to the reconstruction of its Holocene history (2009) (90)
The Camel in the Nile Valley: New Radiocarbon Accelerator (AMS) Dates from Qaşr Ibrîm 1 (1988) (85)
Firewood, food and human niche construction: the potential role of Mesolithic hunter–gatherers in actively structuring Scotland's woodlands (2015) (82)
Ancient pigs reveal a near-complete genomic turnover following their introduction to Europe (2019) (76)
How the west was lost: A reconsideration of agricultural origins in Britain, Ireland, and southern Scandinavia. Commentaries. Author's reply (2004) (74)
Star Carr revisited : a re-analysis of the large mammals (1988) (73)
The domestication of the pig (Sus scrofa): New challenges and approaches (2006) (68)
Late Mesolithic and early Neolithic forest disturbance: a high resolution palaeoecological test of human impact hypotheses (2013) (65)
From genesis to prehistory : the archaeological three age system and its contested reception in Denm (2007) (64)
Cereals, fruits and nuts in the Scottish Neolithic (2010) (63)
Slash and burn in the temperate European neolithic (1981) (57)
Westward Ho! The Spread of Agriculturalism from Central Europe to the Atlantic (2011) (54)
Early Farming in Finland: Was there Cultivation before the Iron Age (500 BC)? (2013) (49)
Ancient DNA from archaeological sorghum (Sorghum bicolor) from Qasr Ibrim, Nubia. Implications for domestication and evolution and a review of the archaeological evidence (1997) (47)
Modelling the earliest north-western dispersal of Mediterranean Impressed Wares : new dates and Bayesian chronological model. (2018) (47)
Early Domestic Animals in Italy, Istria, the Tyrrhenian Islands and Southern France (2013) (46)
Wild or domestic? On the evidence for the earliest domestic cattle and pigs in south Scandinavia and Iberia (1995) (45)
Pigs of the ‘Far West’ : the biometry of Sus from archaeological sites in Portugal. (2005) (43)
Animal bones, human societies (2000) (42)
Cattle Management for Dairying in Scandinavia’s Earliest Neolithic (2015) (41)
On the Charred Seeds from Epipalaeolithic Abu Hureyra: Food or Fuel? (1997) (41)
The chronology and frequency of a stress marker (linear enamel hypoplasia) in recent and archaeological populations of Sus scrofa in north‐west Europe, and the effects of early domestication (2004) (39)
Seeds, fruits and nuts in the Scottish Mesolithic (2014) (37)
Archaeological frankincense (1997) (37)
On the importance of cereal cultivation in the British Neolithic (2016) (37)
Derivation and Application of a Food Utility Index (FUI) for European Wild Boar (Sus scrofa L.) (2002) (35)
Improved Separation of Neolithic Metapodials of Sheep (Ovis) and Goats (Capra) from Arene Candide Cave, Liguria, Italy (1998) (35)
Whither environmental archaeology (1994) (34)
Meat, Furs and Skins: Mesolithic Animal Bones from Ringkloster, a Seasonal Hunting Camp in Jutland (1995) (34)
Season and Reason: The Case for a Regional Interpretation of Mesolithic Settlement Patterns (1993) (34)
Consuming passions and patterns of consumption (1998) (31)
Making First Farmers Younger: The West European Evidence (1995) (31)
Mondeval de Sora: a high altitude Mesolithic campsite in the Italian Dolomites (1992) (31)
Strontium isotope evidence of early Funnel Beaker Culture movement of cattle (2016) (30)
Short- and long-term foraging and foddering strategies of domesticated animals from Qasr Ibrim, Egypt (2004) (29)
The Origin of Agriculture in Denmark: A Review of some Theories (1985) (28)
Report on the excavation of a Neolithic mound at Boghead, Speymouth Forest, Fochabers, Moray, 1972 and 1974 (1985) (27)
Pig Hunting and Husbandry in Prehistoric Italy: a Contribution to the Domestication Debate (2006) (26)
Nitrogen isotope evidence for manuring of Early Neolithic Funnel Beaker Culture cereals from Stensborg, Sweden. (2017) (26)
Iron Age Cultigen? Experimental Return Rates for Fat Hen (Chenopodium album L.) (2002) (25)
Herbivore diets and the anthropogenic environment of early farming in southern Scandinavia (2017) (25)
The medieval reindeer economy at Gæccevaj'njar'ga 244 B in the Varanger Fjord, North Norway (1997) (25)
Diet and health in past animal populations (2005) (23)
Zooarchaeology and the elusive feast: from performance to aftermath (2018) (23)
The Establishment of Agrarian Communities on the North European Plain [and Comments and Reply] (1987) (23)
The interpretation of ard marks (1987) (22)
Early domestic animals in Europe : imported or locally domesticated? (2003) (22)
Recent Advances in Ageing and Sexing Animal Bones (2006) (22)
GROOVED WARE FEASTING IN YORKSHIRE: LATE NEOLITHIC ANIMAL CONSUMPTION AT RUDSTON WOLD (2011) (21)
Mesolithic domestic pigs at Rosenhof – or wild boar? A critical re-appraisal of ancient DNA and geometric morphometrics (2014) (21)
The transition from wild boar to domestic pig in Eurasia, illustrated by a tooth developmental defect and biometrical data. (2007) (21)
A Meeting in the Forest: Hunters and Farmers at the Coneybury ‘Anomaly’, Wiltshire (2018) (21)
Late Palaeolithic Exploitation of Horse and Red Deer at Gough's Cave, Cheddar, Somerset (1986) (20)
A dental microwear study of pig diet and management in Iron Age, Romano-British, Anglo-Scandinavian and Medieval contexts in England (2007) (20)
Lines of enquiry. (2001) (20)
Why didn't Westropp's ‘Mesolithic’ catch on in 1872? (1996) (20)
Current views on Sus phylogeography and pig domestication as seen through modern mtDNA studies (2007) (20)
Settlement Patterns of the Beothuk Indians of Newfoundland : a View from Away (1990) (19)
Mesolithic Northwest Europe : recent trends (1987) (18)
Economic prehistory in Southern Scandinavia (1999) (18)
The concept of prehistory and the invention of the terms ‘prehistoric’ and ‘prehistorian’: the Scandinavian origin, 1833–1850 (2006) (17)
The Bog Find from Sigersdal (1986) (16)
Postglacial foraging and early farming economies in Japan and Korea: a west European perspective (1984) (16)
Hunter-Gatherer Variability: Developing Models for the Northern Coasts (2017) (16)
Pigs of Sardinia and Corsica: a biometrical re-evaluation of their status and history (2006) (15)
Introduction: Human occupation of the Arctic (1999) (15)
Human Prehistory: Hunting for the Earliest Farmers (2009) (14)
Foragers and farmers in Mesolithic/Neolithic Europe, 5500-3900 cal BC : beyond the anthropological comfort zone. (2014) (13)
Colonisation, Migration and Marginal Areas (2004) (13)
Archaeological cereals as an isotope record of long-term soil health and anthropogenic amendment in southern Scandinavia (2021) (12)
The Mesolithic-Neolithic in the Alentejo: archaeological investigations, 1984-1986 (2007) (12)
Wild Boar or Domestic Pigs? Response to Evin et al. (2014) (12)
The advance of cultivation at its northern European limit: Process or event? (2017) (12)
Subsistence Practices in Western and Northern Europe (2015) (11)
The ethnoarchaeology of traditional pig husbandry in Sardinia and Corsica (2007) (11)
Arene Candile: a small part of a larger pastoral system? (1991) (10)
Radiocarbon Accelerator (AMS) Dates for the Epipaleolithic Settlement At Abu Hureyra, Syria (1986) (10)
Rye in Viking Age Denmark: New Information from Øster Aalum, North Jutland (1988) (9)
Ancient DNA from Sorghum (1999) (9)
The Egehøj Cereals: Bread Wheat (Triticum aestivum s. I.) in the Danish Early Bronze Age (1984) (9)
Seasonal Variation in Maglemosian Group Size and Structure: A New Model (1987) (9)
The Three Age System in English: new translations of the founding documents (2004) (9)
The beaver (castor fiber L.) in the Tigris-Euphrates basin (1986) (9)
The four horses of an Iron Age apocalypse: war-horses from the third-century weapon sacrifice at Illerup Aadal (Denmark) (2014) (8)
The Evidence from Qasr Ibrim, Egyptian Nubia (7)
“… Art made strong with bones”: A review of some approaches to osteoarchaeology (1991) (7)
On the Osteological Evidence for Palaeolithic Domestication: Barking Up the Wrong Tree (1990) (7)
Excavations at Northton, Western Isles of Scotland, 2010 ; data structure report. (2011) (6)
The Late Mesolithic of southwest Portugal : a zooarchaeological approach to resource exploitation and settlement patterns. (2015) (6)
YANKOVSKY ECONOMICS: ANIMAL BONES FROM 1ST MILLENNIUM BC SETTLEMENTS IN PRIMORYE, RUSSIAN FAR EAST (2009) (6)
To the Upper Lake : Star Carr revisited – by birchbark canoe. (2017) (5)
Tràigh na Beirigh 9. (2013) (5)
Environmental Archaeology in Southern Scandinavia (2018) (5)
? Cledemutha: A Late Saxon Burh in North Wales (1987) (5)
Isotopic analysis of the Blick Mead dog: A proxy for the dietary reconstruction and mobility of Mesolithic British hunter-gatherers (2019) (5)
Wild things in the north? Hunter-gatherers and the tyranny of the colonial perspective. (2013) (5)
Separating caprine ( Capra / Ovis ) distal tibiae: A case study from the Polish Neolithic (2020) (5)
Great sites Balbridie (2002) (4)
Klein Richard G. a Cruz-Uribe Kathryn : The analysis of animal bones from archeological sites . Chicago a London: Chicago University Press, 1984. 266 pp., 31 figs. (1985) (3)
Science, theory and archaeology in Britain : a minimalist view of the debate / Peter Rowley-Conwy. (2001) (3)
Continuity and change in the prehistoric economics of Denmark, 3700 BC to 2300 BC (1980) (3)
Disease, CCR5-Δ32 and the European spread of agriculture? A hypothesis (2012) (3)
Tràigh na Beirigh, Uig. (2011) (3)
The Greenland caribou—zoogeography, taxonomy and population dynamics: By M. Meldgaard. 1986. 88 pp., figures, tables. Meddelelser om Grøland, Bioscience 20. Dkr 130.00. ISBN 87-17-05408-7 (1988) (2)
First farmers in Liguria, north-western Italy: (2020) (2)
The Single Grave (Corded Ware) Economy at Kalvø (1985) (2)
Mesolithic animal bones from Forno da Telha: Portugal (1993) (2)
Gleann Mor Barabhais. (2013) (2)
Transhumance in the Early Neolithic? Carbon and oxygen isotope insights into sheep husbandry at Arene Candide, Northern Italy (2021) (2)
Age at death : a zooarchaeological technique with implications for anthropology, agricultural economics and history. (2004) (2)
Conclusion.: The Early Neolithic origins of agriculture (2020) (2)
The transition from wild boar to domestic pig as illustrated by dental enamel defects (LEH) : a Japanese case study including the site of Torihama. (2005) (2)
Temple Bay, Harris (2011) (2)
Book review: THE ORIGINS AND SPREAD OF AGRICULTURE AND PASTORALISM IN EURASIA, edited by David Harris, London: UCL Press 1996 (ISBN 1‐85728‐537‐9 HB, 1‐85728‐538‐7 PB) (1998) (2)
Fire in the Moor: Mesolithic Carbonised Remains in Riverine Deposits at Gleann Mor Barabhais, Lewis, Western Isles of Scotland (2018) (1)
AUROCHS HUNTERS: THE ANIMAL BONES FROM BLICK MEAD (2019) (1)
Epipalaeolithic animal tending to Neolithic herding at Abu Hureyra, Syria (12,800–7,800 calBP): Deciphering dung spherulites (2022) (1)
A Honeymoon in Egypt and the Sudan: Charlotte Rowley, 1835-1836 (1998) (1)
In sorrow shalt thou eat all thy days (1997) (1)
Excavations at the church of St. Mary-the-Less, Durhman City (2009) (1)
Other Comparisons, Other Directions? (2013) (1)
Aurochs hunters : the large animal bones from Blick Mead. (2018) (1)
Introduction.: Agricultural origins: where next? (2020) (1)
Bison Hunting and Human Adaptation. A Case of Comparative Study of the Upper Palaeolithic of Southern Ukraine. By GennadyKrasnokutsky (1998) (1)
The National Museum of Denmark 1807–2007 (2007) (1)
Sir Grahame Clark (1907‐95) (2002) (1)
Das mesolithikum in süddeutschland. Teil 2. Naturwissenschaftliche untersuchungen: Edited by Wolfgang Taute. 1980. 178 pp., figures, tables. Tübingen: Verlag Archaeologica Venatoria (Tübinger Monographien zur Urgeschichte 5/2). DM 76. ISBN 3-921618-08-8 (1988) (1)
Decision letter: 'Palaeoshellomics’ reveals the use of freshwater mother-of-pearl in prehistory (2019) (0)
Taking the Bull by the Horns: Why Hunt Aurochs Using Light Arrows with Microlithic Points? (2019) (0)
15. The Domestication Of The Pig (Sus Scrofa): New Challenges And Approaches (2019) (0)
Scotland's first farmers: new insights into early farming practices in North-west Europe (2022) (0)
The earliest farming in Britain: (2020) (0)
Umberto Albarella, with Mauro Rizzetto, Hannah Russ, Kim Vickers & Sarah Viner-Daniels (ed.). The Oxford handbook of zooarchaeology. 2017. Oxford: Oxford University Press; 978-0-19-968647-6 £110. (2018) (0)
A cold case closed : new light on the life and death of the Lateglacial elk from Poulton-le-Fylde (Lancashire, UK). (2017) (0)
Deposited in DRO : 05 July 2016 Version of attached (2016) (0)
Scotland ’ s ﬁ rst farmers: new insights into early farming practices in North-west Europe (2022) (0)
Mesolithic Britain. By J. Wymer (1991) (0)
Distinguishing Wild Boar from Domestic Pigs in Prehistory: A Review of Approaches and Recent Results (2012) (0)
Review - Christopher Prescott: From Stone Age to Iron Age. A Study from Sogn, Western Norway (1999) (0)
mtDNA, the Archaeological Record, and the Emergence of Modern Humans (1991) (0)
MIDDLE NEOLITHIC ECONOMIES IN DENMARK AND SOUTHERN ENGLAND The faunal evidence from Fannerup, Eastj utland (2018) (0)
A hunter-gatherer Pompeii (1995) (0)
Comments on Campana and Crabtree 'Communal Hunting in the Natufian of the Southern Levant: The Social and Economic Implications (2016) (0)
Reply to comments on transition to farming in Northern Europe (1985) (0)
Zvelebil, Marek (2020) (0)
Report on two meetings held in Durham (2007) (0)
Introduction: Debates in World Archaeology (2004) (0)
Prehistoric Farming in Europe . By Graeme Barker. (New Studies in Archaeology.) 25·5 × 18 cm. Pp. xviii + 327, 100 ills. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1985. ISBN 0-521-22810-7. Price not stated. P/b edn. available. (1986) (0)
Book reviewMesolithic Europe, Geoff Bailey, Penny Spikins, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge (2008), 488 pp. hdbk. UK£55.00, US$95.00, ISBN: 9780521855037 (2009) (0)
Prehistoric hunting dogs as global Pleistocene-Holocene climate change adaptations (2017) (0)
Graeme Barker The Agricultural Revolution in Prehistory: why did Foragers become Farmers? xvi+598 pages, 138 illustrations, 15 tables. 2006. Oxford: Oxford University Press; 978-0-19-928109-1 hardback £80. (2007) (0)
Fundamentals of zooarchaeology in Japan. A. Matsui. Kyoto University Press, Kyoto, Japan, 2008. 328 pp. ISBN 978 4 87698 735 1 (2008) (0)
Comments on remodelling the Neolithic in Southern Norway (1988) (0)
The Continuing Importance of Hunter-Gatherer Studies in Anthropology (1969) (0)
Modelling the earliest western spread of Mediterranean Impressed Wares : new dates and chronicles in the frame of the CIMO ANR project (2016) (0)
Animal Bones and Plant Remains (2008) (0)

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