Umberto Albarella

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Umberto Albarella

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Umberto Albarella's Degrees

Bachelors Archaeology University of Bologna

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According to Wikipedia, Umberto Albarella is an Italian-British archaeologist, prehistorian, and activist. He is professor of Zooarchaeology at the Department of Archaeology, University of Sheffield. Albarella's previous work has been based in Britain, Italy, Armenia, Greece, the Netherlands, Germany, Switzerland, France, and Portugal.

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Umberto Albarella'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)
Cattle mobility in prehistoric Britain: strontium isotope analysis of cattle teeth from Durrington Walls (Wiltshire, Britain) (2010) (131)
Animal origin of 13th-century uterine vellum revealed using noninvasive peptide fingerprinting (2015) (125)
The development of animal husbandry from the Late Iron Age to the end of the Roman period: a case study from South-East Britain (2008) (95)
Neolithic pigs from Durrington Walls, Wiltshire, England: a biometrical database (2005) (92)
Distinguishing Wild Boar from Domestic Pigs in Prehistory: A Review of Approaches and Recent Results (2012) (91)
Size and shape of the Eurasian wild boar (Sus scrofa), with a view to the reconstruction of its Holocene history (2009) (90)
Mammals and Birds from Launceston Castle, Cornwall: Decline in Status and the Rise of Agriculture (1996) (82)
Pigs and humans : 10,000 years of interaction (2007) (79)
'Size matters': how and why biometry is still important in zooarchaeology (2002) (73)
The domestication of the pig (Sus scrofa): New challenges and approaches (2006) (68)
A passion for pork: meat consumption at the British late Neolithic site of Durrington Walls (2002) (65)
They dined on Crane: bird consumption, wild fowling and status in medieval England (2002) (61)
Materializing Stonehenge (2006) (60)
Feeding Stonehenge: cuisine and consumption at the Late Neolithic site of Durrington Walls (2015) (57)
A morphometric system to distinguish sheep and goat postcranial bones (2017) (56)
Shape variation of cattle metapodials: age, sex or breed? Some examples from mediaeval and postmediaeval sites (1998) (52)
Widening the market. Strontium isotope analysis on cattle teeth from Owslebury (Hampshire, UK) highlights changes in livestock supply between the Iron Age and the Roman period (2014) (51)
Multi-isotope analysis reveals that feasts in the Stonehenge environs and across Wessex drew people and animals from throughout Britain (2019) (49)
Size, power, wool and veal: zooarchaeological evidence for late medieval innovations (1997) (49)
Environmental archaeology : meaning and purpose (2001) (43)
Pigs of the ‘Far West’ : the biometry of Sus from archaeological sites in Portugal. (2005) (43)
Alternate fortunes? The role of domestic ducks and geese from Roman to Medieval times in Britain (2005) (40)
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)
Molecular and osteometric sexing of cattle metacarpals: a case study from 15th century AD Beja, Portugal (2012) (39)
Age and season of pig slaughter at Late Neolithic Durrington Walls (Wiltshire, UK) as detected through a new system for recording tooth wear (2014) (39)
A week on the plateau: pig husbandry, mobility and resource exploitation in central Sardinia (2011) (39)
Pig husbandry and pork consumption in medieval England (2006) (38)
The end of the Sheep Age: people and animals in the late Iron Age (2007) (36)
‘The mystery of husbandry’: medieval animals and the problem of integrating historical and archaeological evidence (1999) (36)
Production, Imports and Status: Biological Remains from a Late Roman Farm at Great Holts Farm, Boreham, Essex, UK (2000) (34)
Animal Husbandry across the Western Roman Empire: Changes and Continuities (2017) (30)
Ethnozooarchaeology: The Present and Past of Human-Animal Relationships (2011) (29)
Strontium and oxygen isotope evidence for the origin and movement of cattle at Late Neolithic Durrington Walls, UK (2019) (29)
Pig Hunting and Husbandry in Prehistoric Italy: a Contribution to the Domestication Debate (2006) (26)
The crested porcupine, Hystrix cristata L., 1758, in Italy (2010) (25)
Analysis of seasonal mobility of sheep in Iron Age Catalonia (north-eastern Spain) based on strontium and oxygen isotope analysis from tooth enamel: First results (2016) (24)
Diet and health in past animal populations (2005) (23)
Depressions on sheep horncores (1995) (23)
Livestock Changes at the Beginning and End of the Roman Period in Britain: Issues of Acculturation, Adaptation, and ‘Improvement’ (2017) (22)
Recent Advances in Ageing and Sexing Animal Bones (2006) (22)
The transition from wild boar to domestic pig in Eurasia, illustrated by a tooth developmental defect and biometrical data. (2007) (21)
Pigs (2018) (20)
The Late Iron Age and Romano-British mammal and bird bone assemblage from Elms Farm, Heybridge, Essex (2015) (20)
Current views on Sus phylogeography and pig domestication as seen through modern mtDNA studies (2007) (20)
A dental microwear study of pig diet and management in Iron Age, Romano-British, Anglo-Scandinavian and Medieval contexts in England (2007) (20)
Dogs in antiquity. Anubis to cerberus: The origins of the domestic dog (2003) (19)
S. Giacomo degli Schiavoni (Molise): an early fifth century AD deposit of pottery and animal bones from central Adriatic Italy (1993) (17)
Norwich Castle: Excavations and Historical Survey 1987-98. Part III A Zooarchaeological Study (2009) (17)
Pigs of Sardinia and Corsica: a biometrical re-evaluation of their status and history (2006) (15)
Crane and vulture at an Italian Bronze Age site (1997) (14)
Colonisation, Migration and Marginal Areas (2004) (13)
Archaeologists in Conflict: Empathizing with Which Victims? (2009) (12)
The ethnoarchaeology of traditional pig husbandry in Sardinia and Corsica (2007) (11)
Companions of our travel: the archaeological evidence of animals in exile (2007) (11)
Exploring the real Nature of environmental archaeology (2001) (11)
Mobility of cattle in the Iron Age and Roman Netherlands (2020) (11)
Mammal and bird bone (2009) (11)
The ‘long’ sixteenth century: a key period of animal husbandry change in England (2018) (10)
Defining bone movement in archaeological stratigraphy: a plea for clarity (2016) (10)
The animal economy after the eruption of Avellino pumice: the case of La Starza (Avellino, Southern Italy) (1999) (10)
Feeding Stonehenge: Feasting in Late Neolithic Britain (2011) (10)
‘Masseria Quattro Macine’ — a deserted medieval village and its territory in southern Apulia: an interim report on field survey, excavation and document analysis (1996) (10)
Tanners, tawyers, horn working and the mystery of the missing goat (2003) (9)
Resourcing Stonehenge: patterns of human, animal and goods mobility in the Late Neolithic (2016) (7)
Ricerche sull'insediamento tardo-neolitico di Mulino Sant'Antonio (Avella) (1987) (7)
Urban medieval and post-medieval zooarchaeology in the Basque Country: Meat supply and consumption (2016) (7)
Cattle management in an Iron Age/Roman settlement in the Netherlands: Archaeozoological and stable isotope analysis (2021) (7)
The Late Iron Age and Romano-British Mammal and Bird Bone Assemblage from Elms Farm, Heybridge, Essex (Site Code: Hyef93-95) (2002) (6)
A veritable confusion: use and abuse of isotope analysis in archaeology (2021) (6)
The animal bones (1998) (6)
The earliest evidence of chicken in Italy (2021) (6)
Wild Birds of the Italian Middle Ages: Diet, Environment and Society (2018) (5)
Urban pigs: dietary, cultural and landscape changes in 1st millennium AD Rome (2018) (5)
EXPLORING THE REAL NATURE OF ENVIRONMENTAL ARCHAEOLOGY An introduction (2001) (5)
Meat consumption and production in town and country (2005) (5)
Problemi metodologici nelle correlazioni inter-sito: alcuni esempi da archeofaune dell'Italia meridionale (1993) (4)
Size and shape of Greek Late Neolithic livestock suggest the existence of multiple and distinctive animal husbandry cultures (2016) (4)
The archaeology of pig domestication and husbandry : approaches and case studies (2004) (3)
Environmental Archaeology: The End of the Road? (2018) (3)
Zooarchaeology in the twenty- first century: where we come from, where we are now, and where we are going (2017) (3)
The role of chicken in the medieval food system: evidence from Central Italy (2016) (3)
Vaste, Fondo S.Antonio - I reperti faunistici dalle cisterne e dalla buca di scarico (1995) (3)
An osteometrical method for sexing cattle bones: the metacarpals from 17th century Carnide, Lisbon, Portugal (2018) (3)
A method to assess wear rate in pig teeth from archaeological sites (2021) (3)
Mammal and avian bone (2005) (2)
Was the English medieval goat genuinely rare? A new morphometric approach provides the answer (2019) (2)
The use of Animals at Roman Roadside Settlements in Britain: Contextualizing some new Results from Ware, Hertfordshire (2019) (2)
The mammal and bird bones: a brief revisit (2006) (2)
The Wild Boar (2010) (2)
Animals in the Neolithic: A Research Agenda? No Thanks (2006) (2)
Cattle husbandry in the Iron Age and Roman Netherlands: chronological developments and regional differences in cattle frequencies, management, size and shape (2022) (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)
Livestock size and the Roman-Early Anglo-Saxon transition: Britain in North-West Europe (2022) (2)
Ethnozooarchaeology and the power of analogy (2011) (2)
Book Review: Yannis Hamilakis and Philip Duke (eds), Archaeology and Capitalism: From Ethics to Politics. (Walnut Creek, CA: Left Coast Press [One World Archaeology 54], 2007, 352 pp., hbk, ISBN 978 1 59874 270 1) (2008) (1)
A New System for Recording Tooth Wear on Pig Teeth (2010) (1)
Now and hereafter (2008) (1)
A Glossary of Zooarchaeological Methods (2017) (1)
The Role of Sheep Husbandry During the Arab Agricultural Revolution in Medieval Sicily (7th-14th C. Ad) (2022) (1)
Animals in Saxon & Scandinavian England. Backbones of Economy and Society (2015) (1)
The Power of Feasts: From Prehistory to the Present (2016) (1)
Hipponion Vibo Valentia: necropoli in localita Piercastello La fauna (1989) (1)
The mammal, bird and amphibian bones. In: Excavation at Orchard Lane, Huntingdon, 1994 (1997) (1)
faunal assemblage from the manufacturing district at Spolverino: from the Roman Imperial period to Late Antiquity (2021) (1)
Zooarchaeology in the twenty-first century (2017) (1)
The Archaeology of Human-Bird Interactions: Essays in Honour of Dale Serjeantson Part I (2020) (1)
Iron Age and Romano-British Activity at Arle Court Cheltenham Gloucestershire 1999 (2011) (1)
Sito CL1: Fauna. In C.Albore Livadie, F.Fedele, U.Albarella, F.De Matteis, E.Esposito, & R.Federico. Ricerche sull'insediamento tardo neolitico di Mulino S.Antonio (Avella). (1988) (1)
The fauna. In U.Albarella, P.Arthur and M.Wayman. MI79: an early medieval site at loc.Arivito near Mondragone (Caserta) (1989) (0)
From the Mediterranean to the Atlantic: (2021) (0)
Farmland and fenland (2008) (0)
The animal origin of thirteenth-century uterine vellum revealed using non-invasive peptide fingerprinting (2015) (0)
Review of ‘Cultural Heritage, Ethics and the Military’ by Peter G. Stone (ed.) (2012) (0)
M 179: an early medieval lowland site at loc. Arivito, near Mondragone (Caserta) (1989) (0)
Yannis Hamilakis and Philip Duke (eds), Archaeology and Capitalism: From Ethics to Politics (2013) (0)
Animal bone & Mammal and bird remains (2001) (0)
Introduction. The Rural World in the Sixteenth Century (2021) (0)
Monks, monarchs, and mysteries (2008) (0)
Correction to: Livestock size and the Roman‑Early Anglo‑Saxon transition: Britain in North‑West Europe (2023) (0)
1. Ethnozooarchaeology and the power of analogy (2018) (0)
Applying lead (Pb) isotopes to explore mobility in humans and animals (2022) (0)
Krish Seetah. 2019. Humans, animals, and the craft of slaughter in archaeo-historic societies. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press; 978-11084-288-0-4 £75. (2019) (0)
Distinguishing Wild Boar from Domestic Pigs in Prehistory: A Review of Approaches and Recent Results (2012) (0)
Improvements in Animal Husbandry between the End of the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Era in England and the Basque Country: A Zooarchaeological Comparison (2021) (0)
The early history of birds in Britain and Europe (2008) (0)
An Elusive Ghost: Searching for the Eagle Owl (Bubo bubo) in the Past of Britain (2022) (0)
From Elizabeth to Victoria (2008) (0)
15. The Domestication Of The Pig (Sus Scrofa): New Challenges And Approaches (2019) (0)
Cultural heritage, ethics and the military [Book Review] (2012) (0)
Veni, Vidi, Vici (2008) (0)
A method for assessing relative wear rate in cattle molars, with an application to the Iron Age and Roman periods (2022) (0)
Coming in from the cold (2008) (0)
Correction to: Was the English medieval goat genuinely rare? A new morphometric approach provides the answer (2019) (0)
La fauna. In G.Semeraro. Scavi di emergenza nell'abitato medievale di Otranto (1995) (0)
Book Reviews (2018) (0)
Book Reviews (2012) (0)
La fauna dell'abitato dell'eta' del ferro di Otranto (1997) (0)
The animal bone (2011) (0)
The bird in the hand (2008) (0)
The Archaeology of Human-Bird Interactions: Essays in Honour of Dale Serjeantson Part II (2022) (0)
Reprint of: Urban medieval and post-medieval zooarchaeology in the Basque Country: Meat supply and consumption☆ (2017) (0)
Did early farmers keep pigs? (2020) (0)
Book Review: Animaltown: Beasts in Medieval Urban Space (2018) (0)
Book Review: Placing animals in the Neolithic: social zooarchaeology of prehistoric farming communities (2006) (0)

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