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Birds in Archaeology
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Anne Eastham. 2021. Man and bird in the Palaeolithic of Western Europe. Oxford: Archaeopress; 978-1-78969-909-8 paperback £30.
Dale Serjeantson. 2023. The archaeology of wild birds in Britain and Ireland. Oxford & Philadelphia: Oxbow Books; 978-1-78925-956-8 hardback £60.
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 20 October 2023
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It was a pleasure to review these two books by renowned authorities on the importance of bird remains, both for interpreting archaeological sites and for understanding how human interaction with wild birds has evolved in Western Europe. Wild birds are very important in helping to interpret many archaeological sites and, when I am directing excavations, I always keep to hand Alan Cohen and Dale Serjeantson's manual for identifying bird bones (Cohen & Serjeantson 1996) and I recommend it to the students who participate. For over 60 years Anne Eastham's tireless dedication to Quaternary avifauna and her assiduous preparation, by meticulously dissecting birds to build a comprehensive skeletal reference collection, have furthered the archaeological interpretation of many Western European Palaeolithic sites.
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