Dr Umberto Albarella - Selected Publications

MONOGRAPHS


  • Albarella U. , Beech M., Locker A., Moreno-García M., Mulville J. & Curl J . 2009 . Norwich Castle : Excavations and Historical Surveys 1987-98. Part III: a Zooarchaeological Study. Norwich : East Anglian Archaeology Occasional Paper.

  • Yalden, D. & Albarella, U. 2008. The History of British Birds. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

  • Albarella U., Dobney K., Ervynck A. & Rowley-Conwy P. (eds). 2007. Pigs and Humans. 10,000 years of interaction. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

  • Series editor (with Keith Dobney & Peter Rowley-Conwy) of the 14 volumes of the Proceedings on the 9 th conference of ICAZ held in Durham in August 2002. 2004/5/6 . Oxford : Oxbow Books.

  • Albarella U. ( ed ). 2001 . Environmental Archaeology: Meaning and Purpose . Dordrecht , Boston , London : Kluwer Academic Publishers.

    http://www.springer.com/social+sciences/anthropology+and+archaeology/book/978-0-7923-6763-5

  • Albarella U. & Davis S. 1996 . Mammals and Birds from Launceston Castle , Cornwall : Decline in Status and the Rise of Agriculture . York, Circaea , 12 (1), pp.1-156 .

ACADEMIC JOURNALS:


  • Albarella U. , Dobney K. & Rowley-Conwy P. 2009. Size and shape of the Eurasian wild boar (Sus Scrofa), with a view to the reconstruction of its Holocene history. Environmental Archaeology 14(2), 103-36.

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  • Albarella, U. 2009. Archaeologists in Conflict: empathising with which victims? + A response to Malin-Boyce and Trimble. Heritage Management 2 (1), 105-14 + 117-8.

  • Hammon, H. & Albarella, U. 2008. The animal bones. In S.Litherland, E.Ramsay & P.Ellis (eds). The Archaeology of the Severn Trent Southam Area Rationalisation Scheme, Warwickshire, pp.75-124. Transactions of the Birmingham and Warwickshire Archaeological Society 112, 115-8 + 123-4.

  • Albarella U., Johnstone C. & Vickers, K. 2008. The development of animal husbandry from the Late Iron Age to the end of the Roman period: a case study from South-East Britain. Journal of Archaeological Science 35, 1828-48

  • Larson G., Albarella U., Dobney K., Rowley-Conwy P., Schibler J., Tresset A., Vigne J.-D., Edwards C., Schlumbaum A., Dinu A., Balasescu A., Dolman G., Tagliacozzo A., Manaseryan N., Miracle P., Van Wijngaarden-Bakker L., Masseti M., Bradley D. and Cooper A. 2007. Ancient DNA, pig domestication, and the spread of the Neolithic into Europe . Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 104 (39), 15276–15281

  • Albarella U., Tagliacozzo A., Dobney K. & Rowley-Conwy P. 2006. Pig hunting and husbandry in prehistoric Italy : a contribution to the domestication debate. Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society 72, 193-227.

  • Parker Pearson M., Pollard J., Richards C., Thomas J., Tilley C., Welham K., Albarella, U. 2006. Materializing Stonehenge - The Stonehenge Riverside Project and New Discoveries. Journal of Material Culture 11 (1-2), 227-61.

  • Albarella U, Davis S., Detry C. & Rowley-Conwy P. 2005. Pigs of the " Far West ": the biometry of Sus from archaeological sites in Portugal . Anthropozoologica 40(2), 27-54.

  • Larson G., Dobney K., Albarella U. , Fang M., Matisoo -Smith E., Robins J., Lowden S., Finlayson H., Brand T., Willerslev E., Rowley-Conwy P., Andersson L. & Cooper A. 2005 . Worldwide phylogeography of wild boar reveals multiple centres of pig domestication. Science 307, 1618-21 .

  • Albarella U. & Payne S. 2005 . Neolithic pigs from Durrington Walls, Wiltshire , England : a biometrical database. Journal of Archaeological Science 32(4), 589-599.

  • Albarella U. 2005 . Alternate fortunes? The role of domestic ducks and geese from Roman to Medieval times in Britain . Documenta Archaeobiologiae III . Feathers, Grit and Symbolism (ed. by G.Grupe & J.Peters ), 249-58.

  • Murray E. & Albarella U. 2005 . Mammal and avian bone. In A.Shelley ( ed ). Dragon Hall, King Street , Norwich : excavation and survey of a late medieval merchant's trading complex. East Anglian Archaeology 112, 158-167 .

  • Albarella U. 2004. Mammal and bird bones. In H.Wallis ( ed .). Excavations at Mill Lane , Thetford , 1995. East Anglian Archaeology 108, 88-99 .

  • Dobney K. , Ervynck A., Albarella U. & Rowley- Conwy P. 2004 . The chronology and frequency of a stress marker (linear enamel hypoplasia ) in recent and archaeological populations of Sus scrofa , and the effects of early domestication. Journal of Zoology 264, 197-208 .

  • Albarella U. 2003 . Animal bone. In M.Germany (ed.). Excavations at Great Holts Farm, Boreham , Essex, 1992-1994. East Anglian Archaeology 105,193-200.

  • Albarella U. & Thomas R. 2002 They dined on crane: bird consumption, wild fowling and status in medieval England . In: Proceedings of the 4 th Meeting of the ICAZ Bird Working Group Kraków , Poland , 11-15 September, 2001. Acta Zoologica Cracoviensa 45 (special issue), 23-38 .

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  • Murphy P., Albarella U. , Germany M. & Locker A. 2000. Production, imports and status: biological remains from a Late Roman farm, Great Holts Farm, Boreham , Essex . Environmental Archaeology 5, 35-48.

  • Albarella U. 1999. "The mystery of husbandry": medieval animals and the problem of integrating historical and archaeological evidence. Antiquity 73 (282), 867-875.

  • Albarella U. 1997. Shape variation of cattle metapodials : age, sex or breed? Some examples from Medieval and Postmedieval sites. Anthropozoologica , 25-26, 37-47.

  • Albarella U. 1997. Crane and vulture at an Italian Bronze Age site. International Journal of Osteoarchaeology 7, 346-349.

  • Albarella U. 1997 . The mammal, bird and amphibian bones. In Oakley N. with Spoerry P. Excavation at Orchard Lane , Huntingdon, 1994. Proceedings of the Cambridge Antiquarian Society LXXXV, 147-149.

  • Albarella U. 1996 . The animal economy of rural settlements: a zooarchaeological case study from Northamptonshire. Medieval Settlement Research Group, Annual Report 11 .

  • Albarella U. 1996. The faunal remains. In P.Arthur . " Masseria Quattro Macine " - A deserted medieval village and its territory in southern Apulia : an interim report on field survey, excavation and document analysis, pp.222-224. Papers of the British School at Rome , LXIV, 181-237.

  • Albarella U. . 1995. Depressions on sheep horncores . Journal of Archaeological Science, 22, 699-704.

  • Albarella U. 1995 . Vaste, Fondo S.Antonio - I reperti faunistici dalle cisterne e dalla buca di scarico. Studi di Antichita ', 8-2, 289-304.

  • Albarella U. 1995 . La fauna. In G.Semeraro. Scavi di emergenza nell'abitato medievale di Otranto pp.329-380. Studi di Antichita ', 8-2, 373-380

  • Albarella U. 1993. The fauna. In U.Albarella , V.Ceglia & P.Roberts . S.Giacomo degli Schiavoni ( Molise ): an early fifth century AD deposit of pottery and animal bones from central Adriatic Italy. Papers of the British School at Rome , LXI, 157-230.

  • Albarella U. 1990 . La fauna di S.Giacomo degli Schiavoni. Conoscenze , 6, 115-118.

  • Albarella U. 1989 . The fauna. In U.Albarella , P.Arthur and M.Wayman . MI79: an early medieval site at loc.Arivito near Mondragone ( Caserta ). Archeologia Medievale XVI, 596-602.

  • Albarella U. 1989 . Hipponion ‑ Vibo Valentia: necropoli loc.Piercastello ‑ La fauna. Annuali della Scuola Normale di Pisa XIX (2), 825-832.

  • Albarella U. 1987-88 . 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). Rivista di Scienze Preistoriche XLI, 84-99.

  • Fedele F., Albarella U., De Matteis F. & Mottura A. 1987 .Preistoria della Valchiavenna. 1987: il paleo‑mesolitico di Pian dei Cavalli e altre ricerche. Clavenna XXVI, 9-95.

BOOK CHAPTERS:


  • Albarella U., Manconi F., Vigne J.-D. & Rowley-Conwy P. 2007. The ethnoarchaeology of traditional pig husbandry in Sardinia and Corsica. In U.Albarella, K.Dobney, A.Ervynck & P.Rowley-Conwy (eds). Pigs and Humans: 10,000 years of interaction, pp.285-307. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

  • Dobney K, Ervynck A., Albarella U. & Rowley-Conwy P. 2007. The transition from wild boar to domestic pig in Eurasia, illustrated by a tooth developmental defect and biometrical data. In U.Albarella, K.Dobney, A.Ervynck & P.Rowley-Conwy (eds). Pigs and Humans: 10,000 years of interaction, pp.57-82. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

  • Larson G., Albarella U., Dobney K. & Rowley-Conwy P. 2007. Current views on Sus phylogeography and pig domestication as seen through modern mtDNA studies. In U.Albarella, K.Dobney, A.Ervynck & P.Rowley-Conwy (eds). Pigs and Humans: 10,000 years of interaction, pp.30-41. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

  • Wilkie T., Mainland I., Albarella U., Dobney K. & Rowley-Conwy P. 2007. A dental microwear study of pig diet and management in Iron Age, Romano-British, Anglo-Scandinavian and Medieval contexts in England. In U.Albarella, K.Dobney, A.Ervynck & P.Rowley-Conwy (eds). Pigs and Humans: 10,000 years of interaction, pp.241-54. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

  • Albarella U & Davis S. In press . The animal bones. In A.Chapman ( ed .). West Cotton: a study of a medieval settlement dynamics . London : English Heritage.

  • Albarella U. 2007. The end of the Sheep Age: people and animals in the late Iron Age. In C.Haselgrove and T.Moore (eds). The Late Iron Age in Britain and beyond, pp.393-406. Oxford: Oxbow Books.

  • Albarella U. 2007. Companions of our travel: the archaeological evidence of animals in exile. In S.Hartmann (ed). Fauna and Flora in the Middle Ages. Studies of the medieval environment and its impact on the human mind, pp.133-54. Frankfurt an Main: Verlag Peter Lang.

    http://www.alexandriaarchive.org/icaz/icazForum/viewtopic.php?t=1071

  • Albarella U. & Davis S. 2006. The mammal and bird bones: a brief revisit. In A.Saunders (ed). Excavations at Launceston Castle, Cornwall, pp.447-54. Leeds: Maney, Society for Medieval Archaeology Monograph 24.

  • Albarella U., Manconi F., Rowley-Conwy P. & Vigne J.-D. 2006 . Pigs of Sardinia and Corsica : a biometrical re-evaluation of their status and history. In U. Tecchiati & B.Sala (eds). Archaeozoological Studies in Honour of Alfredo Riedel, pp.285-302.Bolzano: Province of Bolzano.

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  • Albarella U. 2006. Pig husbandry and pork consumption in medieval England . In C.Woolgar , D.Serjeantson & T.Waldron ( eds ). Food in Medieval England : diet and nutrition , pp.72-87 . Oxford : Oxford University Press.

  • Albarella U., Dobney K. & Rowley-Conwy P. 2006. The domestication of the pig (Sus scrofa): new challenges - and approaches. In M.Zeder, D.Bradley. E.Emshwiller  & B.Smith (eds). Documenting Domestication: new genetic and archaeological paradigms, pp.209-27. Berkeley: University of California Press.

  • Albarella U. 2006. Animals in the Neolithic: A Research Agenda? No Thanks. In D.Serjeantson & D.Field ( eds ). Animals in the Neolithic of Britain and Europe , pp.168-78. Oxford : Oxbow Books.

  • Albarella U. 2005 . Meat consumption and production in town and country. In K . Giles and C. Dyer ( eds ). Town and Country in the Middle Ages: Contrasts, Contacts and Interconnections, 1100-1500 , pp.131-148 . Leeds : Maney , Society for Medieval Archaeology Monograph 22.

  • Albarella U. 2003 . Tanners, tawyers , horn working and the mystery of the missing goat. In P. Murphy & P.Wiltshire ( eds ). The Environmental Archaeology of Industry , pp.71-86. Oxford : Oxbow Books.

  • Albarella U. 2002. Size matters: how and why biometry is still important in zooarchaeology. In K. Dobney & T. O'Connor ( eds ). Bones and the Man: Studies in honour of Don Brothwell , pp.51-62. Oxford : Oxbow Books.

  • Albarella U. & Serjeantson D. 2002. A passion for pork: meat consumption at the British late Neolithic site of Durrington Walls. In P.Miracle & N.Milner ( eds ). Consuming Passions and Patterns of Consumption , pp.33-49. Cambridge : Monographs of the McDonald Institute.

  • Albarella U. 2001 . Exploring the real Nature of environmental archaeology. In U.Albarella ( ed ). Environmental Archaeology: Meaning and Purpose , pp.3-13. Dordrecht : Kluwer Academic Publishers.

  • Albarella U. 2001 . Animal bone & Mammal and bird remains. In T.Lane & E.L.Morris ( eds ). A Millennium of Saltmaking : prehistoric and Romano-British salt production in the Fenland , pp.75-7, 151, 237, 383-5 and 445-449. Heckington , Lincolnshire Archaeology and Heritage reports Series No 4.

  • Hammon A and Albarella U. 2001. The animal bones. In Ellis P, Coates G, Cuttler R & Mould C ( eds ). Four sites in Cambridgeshire: Excavations at Pode Hole Farm, Paston , Longstanton and Bassingbourn , 1996-7 , pp.47-52. Oxford : BAR British Series 322.

  • Albarella U. 1999 . The animal economy after the eruption of Avellino pumice: the case of La Starza ( Avellino , Southern Italy ). In C.Albore Livadie (ed). L'eruzione vesuviana delle "Pomici di Avellino" e la facies culturale di Palma Campania (bronzo antico) , pp.317-330 . Bari : Edipuglia .

  • Albarella U. 1998 . The animal bones. In P.Ellis , G.Hughes , P.Leach , C.Mould & J.Sterenberg . Excavations alongside Roman Ermine Street , Cambridgeshire 1996 , pp.99-104 . Oxford : Bar British Series 276.

  • Albarella U. 1997 Size, power, wool and veal: zooarchaeological evidence for late medieval innovations. In De Boe G. & Verhaeghe F. ( eds ). Environment and subsistence in medieval Europe , pp.19-30. Brugge: Institute for the Archaeological Heritage of Flanders.

  • Albarella U. 1997 . La fauna dell'abitato dell'eta' del ferro di Otranto. In F. D'Andria (ed). Metodologie di catalogazione dei beni archeologici , pp.189-209. Lecce, Bari: Martano, Edipuglia.

  • Albarella U. 1995 . Problemi metodologici nelle correlazioni inter-sito: alcuni esempi da archeofaune dell'Italia meridionale. In Atti del "I convegno nazionale di archeozoologia", Rovigo 5-7 marzo 1993 , pp.15-28. Rovigo: Padusa Quaderni n.1.

  • Albarella U. 1994 . Ossa umane. In P.Arthur (ed). Il complesso archeologico di Carminiello ai Mannesi. Napoli ( Scavi 1983-1984) , pp.429-430 . Lecce : Congedo .

  • Albarella U. 1991 . La fauna. In P.Arthur (ed). La chiesa di S.Costanzo a Marina Grande, Capri , pp.54-57. Scavi 1990. Napoli: Editoriale Scientifica.

  • Albarella U. 1985 . Predazione contro domesticazione: problemi di studio. In F.Fedele (ed). Aspetti dell'evoluzione umana , pp.163-172 Napoli: Guida.

BOOK REVIEWS:


  • Albarella, U. 2009. Review of the book "Archaeology and Capitalism: From Ethics to Politics". European Journal of Archaeology, 11(2-3), 315-7.

  • Albarella U. 2006. Review of the book "Placing Animals in the Neolithic. Social Zooarchaeology of Prehistoric Farming Communities". The Holocene 16(8), 1178.

  • Albarella U. 2005 . Review of the book "Zooarchaeology in Greece . Recent advances". Phoenix , Journal of the Classical Association of Canada LIX (1), 169-71.

  • Albarella U. 2003. Review of the book "Dogs in Antiquity". International Journal of Osteoarchaeology 13(3), 183-4.

  • Albarella U. 1998 .Review of the book "Of Butchers and Breeds: report on vertebrate remains from various sites in the city of Lincoln ". Environmental Archaeology, 2, 73-74.

  • Albarella U. 1997 . Butchers and breeds in Lincoln . Urban Nature , 3(2), 76.

  • Albarella U. 1997 . Birds of urban Italy . Urban Nature , 3(3), 127.

POPULAR PUBLICATIONS:


  • Albarella U. 2006 . The ragged trousered corporatists. Assemblage 9. ( internet publication see:

    www.assemblage.group.shef.ac.uk/issue9/albarella.html)

  • Albarella U. 2003 . The responsibilities of archaeology. AAW newsletter 2.

  • Albarella U. & Davis S. 1994 . Animal bones from Launceston Castle . Science & Technology , 3, 14-15.

  • Albarella U. 1987. I resti animali. In AA.VV. Archeologia e trasformazione urbana . Napoli.

  • Albarella U. 1987 . La paleontologia umana. In AA.VV. Archeologia e trasformazione urbana . Napoli .

ANCIENT MONUMENTS LABORATORY (AML) AND OTHER REPORTS NOT FORMALLY PUBLISHED (NO ISBN NUMBER) BUT AVAILABLE FOR DISTRIBUTION:


  • Johnstone C. & Albarella U. 2002. The late Iron Age and Romano-British mammal and bird bone assemblage from Elms Farm, Heybridge , Essex . Centre for Archaeology report 45/2002.

  • Murray E. & Albarella U. 2000 . Mammal and bird bones excavated in 1997-8 from Dragon Hall, Norwich , Norfolk . Birmingham University Field Archaeology Unit Project No.715

  • Albarella U. & Johnstone C. 2000 . The early to late Saxon animal bones excavated in 1995 from Kings Meadow Lane , Higham Ferrers , Northamptonshire . AML report 79/00

  • Albarella U. 1999 . The late Saxon and early medieval mammal and bird bones excavated in 1995 from Mill Lane , Thetford , Norfolk . AML report 05/99

  • Albarella U. 1997 . The Iron Age and Roman animal bones excavated in 1996 from Norman Cross, Tort Hill East, Tort Hill West and Vinegar Hill, Cambridgeshire . AML report 108/97

  • Albarella U. 1997 . The animal bones excavated in 1996 from Coslany Street , Norwich , Norfolk . AML report 86/97

  • Albarella U., Beech M. & Mulville J. 1997 . The Saxon, medieval and post-medieval mammal and bird bones excavated 1989-1991 from Castle Mall, Norwich ( Norfolk ) . AML report 72/97

  • Albarella U. 1997 . The Roman mammal and bird bones excavated in 1994 from Great Holts Farm, Boreham , Essex. AML report 9/97

  • Albarella U. 1997 . The Iron Age animal bones excavated in 1991 from Outgang Road , Market Deeping (MAD 91), Lincolnshire . AML report 5/97

  • Albarella U. & Davis S. 1994 . Medieval and Postmedieval mammal and bird bones from Launceston Castle , Cornwall : 1961-1982 excavations . AML report 18/94.

  • Albarella U & Davis S. 1994 . The Saxon and Medieval animal bones excavated 1985-1989 from West Cotton, Northamptonshire . AML report 17/94.

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