Insects in Archaeology
Carrott, J. and H. Kenward
2001 Species associations among insect remains from urban archaeological deposits and their significance in reconstructing the past human environment. Journal of Archaeological Science 28(8):887-905.
Costantini, L. and P. Audisio
2000 Plant and insect remains from the Bronze Age site of Ra's al-Jinz (RJ-2), Sultanate of Oman. Paléorient 26(1):143-156.
Hellqvist, M.
1999 Insect assemblages from Iron Age wells in central Sweden. Norwegian archaeological review 32(1):1-17.
Angulo C., E. G.
1998 Interpretación biológica acerca de la domesticación del pato criollo (Cairina moschata). Bulletin, Institut Français d'Etudes Andines 27(1):17-40.
Stacey, R. J., C. Heron and M. Q. Sutton
1998 The chemistry, archaeology, and ethnography of a Native American insect resin. Journal of California and Great Basin Anthropology 20(1):53-71.
Hellqvist, M. and G. Lemdahl
1996 Insect assemblages and local environment in the mediaeval town of Uppsala, Sweden. Journal of Archaeological Science 23(6):873-881.
Dirrigl, F. J. J. and B. Greenberg
1995 The utility of insect remains to assessing human burials: a Connecticut case study. Archaeology of Eastern North America 23:1-7.
Sutton, M. Q.
1995 Archaeological aspects of insect use. Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory 2(3):253-298.
Hill, M. J.
1994 Insect assemblages as evidence for past woodlands around York. Urban-Rural Connexions: Perspectives from Environmental Archaeology:45-54.
Kenward, H. K. and E. P. Allison
1994 Rural origins of the urban insect fauna. Urban-Rural Connexions: Perspectives from Environmental Archaeology:55-77.
Futato, E. M.
1992 Re-interpretation of the Yarborough site pendant. Mississippi Archaeology 27(1):75-79.
Chomko, S. A. and B. M. Gilbert
1991 Bone refuse and insect remains: their potential for temporal resolution of the archaeological record. American Antiquity 56(4):680-686.
Sadler, J.
1990 Beetles, boats and biogeography: insect invaders of the North Atlantic. Acta Archaeologica 61:199-211.
Sutton, M. Q.
1990 Notes on creosote lac scale insect resin as a mastic and sealant in the southwestern Great Basin. Journal of California and Great Basin Anthropology 12(2):262-268.
Anderson, R.
1989 Haughey's Fort: analysis of an insect death assemblage. Emania (6):37-42.
Hakbijl, T.
1989 Insect remains from Site Q, an early Iron Age farmstead of the Assendelver Polders Project. Helinium 29(1):77-102.
Hakbijl, T., C. D. Troostheide and J. P. Pals
1989 Plant and insect remains from the Late Neolithic well at Kolhorn. Palaeohistoria 31:157-163.
Elias, S. A.
1986 Fossil insect evidence for Late Pleistocene paleoenvironments of the Lamb Spring site, Colorado. Geoarchaeology 1(4):381-387.
Perry, D. W., P. C. Buckland and M. Snæsdóttir
1985 Application of numerical techniques to insect assemblages from the site of Stóraborg, Iceland. Journal of archaeological science 12(5):335-345.
Girling, M. A.
1984 Investigations of a second insect assemblage from the Sweet Track. Somerset Levels papers (10):79-91.
Fleming, S. J.
1983 Tale of the cochineal: insect farming in the New World. Archaeology 36(5):68-69.
Osborne, P. J.
1983 Insect fauna from a modern cesspit and its comparison with probable cesspit assemblages from archaeological sites. Journal of archaeological science 10(5):453-463.
Elias, S. A.
1982 Holocene insect fossils from two sites at Ennadai Lake, Keewatin, Northwest Territories, Canada. Quaternary research 17(3):371-390.
Kenward, H. K.
1982 Insect communities and death assemblages, past and present. Research report - Council for British Archaeology (43):71-78.
Noe-Nygaard, B.
1982 Applicability of insect finds to the interpretation of archaeological sites. PACT 7:239-245.
Osborne, P. J.
1982 Some British later prehistoric insect faunas and their climatic implications. Climatic change in later prehistory:68-74.
Ashworth, A. C.
1981 Plant and insect fossils at Norwood in south central Minnesota: a record of late-glacial succession. Quaternary research 16(1):66-79.
Buckland, P. C.
1981 Insect remains from beneath the Brigg "raft". BAR British series (89):155-175.
Perry, D. W.
1981 Cluster analysis of the insect remains from beneath the "raft". BAR British series (89):176-181.
Girling, M. A.
1980 The fossil insect assemblage from the Baker Site. Somerset Levels papers (6):36-42.
Girling, M. A.
1979 The fossil insect assemblages from the Meare Lake Village. Somerset Levels papers (5):25-32.
LaFleur, R. A., R. W. Matthews and D. B. McCorkle
1979 A re-examination of the Mallia insect pendant. American journal of archaeology 83(2):208-212.
Girling, M. A.
1978 The application of fossil insect studies to the Somerset Levels. Occasional publication - Institute of Archaeology (3):85-90.
1978 Fossil insect assemblages from Difford's I site. Somerset Levels papers (4):107-113.
Kenward, H. K.
1978 The value of insect remains as evidence of ecological conditions on archaeological sites. Occasional publication (3):25-38.
Osborne, P. J.
1978 Insect evidence for the effect of man on the lowland landscape. Research report - Council for British Archaeology (21):32-34.
Varley, G.
1978 The effects of insect defoliation on the growth of oaks in England. BAR Supplementary series (51):179-184.
Girling, M. A.
1977 Fossil insect assemblages from Rowland's track. Somerset Levels papers (3):51-60.
Buckland, P. C.
1976 The use of insect remains in the interpretation of archaeological environments. Geoarchaeology:369-396.
Jenkins, K. D.
1964 Aje or Ni-in (the fat of a scale insect): painting medium and unguent. Internatioal Congress of Americanists. 35th, Mexico, D.F., 1962. Actas y memorias 1:625-636.
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