Professor Umberto Albarella

Publications

Books/Monographs

J Grau-Sologestoa I. & Albarella U. (eds.). 2022. The Rural World in the 16th century. Exploring the Archaeology of Innovation in Europe. Turnhout: Brepols Publisher.

P Albarella U., Baker P., Browaeys E., Corbino C.A., Mulville J., Poland G. & Worley F. (eds.). 2022. The Archaeology of Human-bird interactions: Essays in honour of Dale Serjeantson. Volume 2. Quaternary International 626-627.

J Deschler-Erb, S., Albarella, U. & Valenzuela-Lamas, S. 2021. Animals in Ritual and Funerary Context. Proceedings of the RPWG meeting in Basel 1st-4th February 2018. Frankfurt am Main: Römisch-Germanische Kommission des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts.

P Albarella U., Detry C., Gabriel S., Ginja C., Pires E. & Tereso J. (eds.). 2021. Themes in Old World Zooarchaeology: From the Mediterranean to the Atlantic. Oxford: Oxbow Books.

P Albarella U., Baker P., Browaeys E., Corbino C.A., Mulville J., Poland G. & Worley F. (eds.) 2020. The Archaeology of Human-bird interactions: Essays in honour of Dale Serjeantson. Volume 1. Quaternary International 543 

P Albarella U. 2019. A Review of Animal Bone Evidence from Central England. London: Historic England Research Report Series 61.

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J Valenzuela S. & Albarella U. (eds.) 2017. Husbandry in the Western Roman Empire: a zooarchaeological perspective. A monographic issue of the European Journal of Archaeology 20(3).

P Albarella U. with M.Rizzetto, H.Russ, K.Vickers & S.Viner (eds.) 2017. The Oxford Handbook of Zooarchaeology. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 

P Albarella U & Trentacoste A. (eds.) 2011. Ethnozooarchaeology. The present and past of human-animal relationships. Oxford: Oxbow Books. 

P Albarella U., Beech M., Curl J., Locker A., Moreno-García M. & Mulville J. 2009. Norwich Castle: Excavations and Historical Surveys 1987-98. Part III: a Zooarchaeological Study. Norwich: East Anglian Archaeology Occasional Papers 22.

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

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

P 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. 

J 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. 

Chapters

J Duval C. & Albarella U. 2022. Change and regionalism in British cattle husbandry in the Iron Age and Roman periods: an osteometric approach. In Ginja C. & Wright E. Cattle and Humans. Interdisciplinary Approaches to an Ancient Relationship, pp.111-142. Nottingham: Lockwood Press.

J Grau-Sologestoa I. & Albarella U. 2022. Introduction: the rural world in the sixteenth century. In Grau-Sologestoa I. & Albarella U. (eds.). The Rural World in the Sixteenth Century. Exploring the Archaeology of Innovation in Europe, pp.13-22. Turnhout: Brepols Publisher. 

J Grau-Sologestoa I. & Albarella U. 2022. 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. In Grau-Sologestoa I. & Albarella U. (eds.). The Rural World in the 16th century. Exploring the Archaeology of Innovation in Europe, pp.129-156. Turnhout: Brepols Publisher.

P Albarella U. 2021. From the Mediterranean to the Atlantic: Simon Davis’ exceptional contribution to the world of zooarchaeology. In Albarella U., Detry C., Gabriel S., Ginja C., Pires E. & Tereso J. (eds.). Themes in Old World Zooarchaeology: From the Mediterranean to the Atlantic, pp.1-12. Oxford: Oxbow Books.

J Minniti C., Albarella U. & Viner S. 2020. Faunal remains from Woodhenge. In M.Parker Pearson, J.Pollard, C.Richards, J.Thomas, C.Tilley & K.Welham (eds.). Stonehenge for the Ancestors Vol.1. Imprint: Sidestone Press.

J Minniti C., Albarella U. & Viner S. 2020. Faunal remains. In M.Parker Pearson, J.Pollard, C.Richards, J.Thomas, C.Tilley & K.Welham (eds.). Stonehenge for the Ancestors Vol.1. Imprint: Sidestone Press.

J Minniti C., Albarella U. & Viner S. 2020. Faunal remains from the Cuckoo Stone. In M.Parker Pearson, J.Pollard, C.Richards, J.Thomas, C.Tilley & K.Welham (eds.). Stonehenge for the Ancestors Vol.1. Imprint: Sidestone Press.

J Tecce S. & Albarella U. 2020. Did early farmers keep pigs? A morphometric analysis from Italy. In Gron K.J., Sørensen L. & Rowley-Conwy P. (eds.) Farmers at the Frontier: A Pan-European Perspective on Neolithisation, pp.101-124. Oxford: Oxbow Books. 

P Albarella, U. 2018. Pigs. In Lopez Varela S. (ed.). The SAS Encyclopedia of Archaeological Sciences. Wiley-Blackwell: Hoboken, New Jersey. DOI: 10.1002/9781119188230.saseas0459

P Albarella, U. 2018. Environmental Archaeology: the End of the Road? In E.Piskin, A.Marciniak & M.Bartkowiak. Environmental Archaeology: Current Theoretical and Methodological Approaches, pp.15-18. London: Springer.

P Albarella, U. 2018. Concluding Remarks. In C.Giovas & M.LeFebvre (eds.). Zooarchaeology in Practice: Case Studies in Methodology and Interpretation in Archaeofaunal Analysis, 309-319. Dordrecht: Springer.

P Albarella, U. 2017. I suini del Nuraghe Arrubiu. Nota sulla biometria e sulle età. In F.Lo Schiavo & M.Perra (eds). Il Nuraghe Arrubiu di Orroli. Volume 1. La Torre Centrale e il Cortile B: Il Cuore del Gigante Rosso, pp.115-118. Cagliari: Arkadia.

P Albarella U. 2017. Zooarchaeology in the twenty- first century: where we come from, where we are now, and where we are going. In Albarella U. with M.Rizzetto, H.Russ, K.Vickers & S.Viner (eds.) The Oxford Handbook of Zooarchaeology, pp.3-21. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 

J Rizzetto M. & Albarella, U. 2017. A Glossary of Zooarchaeological Methods. In Albarella U. with M.Rizzetto, H.Russ, K.Vickers & S.Viner (eds.) The Oxford Handbook of Zooarchaeology, pp.757-80. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 

J Chan B., Viner S., Parker Pearson M., Albarella U & Ixer, R. 2016. Resourcing Stonehenge: patterns of human, animal and goods mobility in the late Neolithic. In J.Leary & T.Kador (eds.). Moving on in Neolithic Studies: Understanding mobile lives, pp.28-44. Oxford: Oxbow Books. 

P Albarella U. 2015. Meat. In K.Metheny & M.C.Beaudry (eds.) Archaeology of Food - An Encyclopedia, pp.309-11. Lanham, Boulder, New York, London: Rowman & Littlefield. 

P Albarella U. 2015. Pig. In K.Metheny & M.C.Beaudry (eds.) Archaeology of Food - An Encyclopedia, pp.406-7. Lanham, Boulder, New York, London: Rowman & Littlefield. 

P Albarella, U. 2012. Animal Bone. In Wilkinson, T.J., Murphy, P.L., Bron, N. and Heppell, E.M. The Archaeology of the Essex Coast, Volume II: Excavation of the Prehistoric Site of the Stumble, p.70. Chelmsford: East Anglian Archaeology Report No.144. 

J Parker Pearson M., Pollard J., Richards C., Thomas J., Welham K., Albarella U., Chan B., Marshall P & Viner S. 2011. Feeding Stonehenge: Feasting in Late Neolithic Britain. In G.Aranda Jiménez, S.Montón-Subías & M.Sánchez Romero (eds.). Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner. Feasting rituals in the prehistoric societies of Europe and the Near East, pp.73-90. Oxford: Oxbow Books. 

P Albarella U. 2011. Ethnozooarchaeology and the power of analogy. In U. Albarella & A. Trentacoste A. (eds.). Ethnozooarchaeology. The present and past of human-animal relationships, 1-3. Oxford: Oxbow Books. 

P Albarella U, Manconi F & Trentacoste A. 2011. A week on the plateau: pig husbandry, mobility and resource exploitation in central Sardinia. In U. Albarella & A. Trentacoste A. (eds.). Ethnozooarchaeology. The present and past of human-animal relationships, pp.143-59. Oxford: Oxbow Books. 

J Albarella, U. & Hammon, A. 2011. The animal bone. In P. Ellis & P.Leach (eds.). The Roman Settlement At Fosse Lane, Shepton Mallet: The Tesco Excavation, 1996–7, pp.W37-W52 Taunton: Somerset Archaeology and Natural History Vol. 155.

P Albarella U. 2010. Wild boar. In T.O’Connor & N.Sykes (eds.). Extinctions and Invasions: A Social History of British Fauna, pp.59-67. Oxford: Oxbow Books.

P Albarella U & Davis S. 2010. The animal bones. In A.Chapman (ed.). West Cotton, Raunds: a study of medieval settlement dynamics AD 450-1450, pp.516-37. Oxford: Oxbow Books. 

P Albarella, U. 2010. Animal bone. In R.Cuttler (ed.). Iron Age and Romano-British activity at Arle Court, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, 1999, p.66. Trans. Bristol & Gloucestershire Archaeological Society 128, pp.55-72 

P Albarella U., Beech M. & Mulville J. 2009. Mammal and bird bone In E.Shepherd Popescu (ed.) Norwich Castle: Excavations and Historical Surveys 1987-98. Part I: Anglo-Saxon to c.1345, pp.180-5, 350-1, 443. Norwich: East Anglian Archaeology Report No.132.

P Albarella U., Beech M. & Mulville J. 2009. Mammal and bird bone In E.Shepherd Popescu (ed.) Norwich Castle: Excavations and Historical Surveys 1987-98. Part II: c.1345 to Modern, pp.636-7, 893-6, 995-1006. Norwich: East Anglian Archaeology Report No.132.

J Rowley-Conwy P. Albarella U & Dobney K. 2010. Wild boar and domestic pigs: approaches and methods. In Zooarchaeology Volume 1. Collection of Papers from International Conference of Zooarchaeology in Zhengzhou, China, 2007, pp.70-115. Bejing: Cultural Relics Press.

P Albarella, U. 2009. Animal Bone. In S.Lawrence & A.Smith (eds.) Between Villa and Town. Excavations of a Roman and roadside settlement and shrine at Higham Ferrers, Northamptonshire, p.43. Oxford: Oxford Archaeology Monograph No.7.

J 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.

J Albarella U., Dobney K., Ervynck A. & Rowley-Conwy P. 2007. Introduction. In U.Albarella, K.Dobney, A.Ervynck & P.Rowley-Conwy (eds.) Pigs and Humans. 10,000 years of interaction, pp1-12. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 

P 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. 

J 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.

J 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. 

J 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. 

P 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.

P 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.

J 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. 

P 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. 

P 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.

J 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.

P 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.

J 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. 

P 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.

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

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

P 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. 

P 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. P

P 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.

P 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.

P 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.

J 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. 

P 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.

P 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.

P 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.

P 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.

P 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.

P 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.

P 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.

Journal Articles

P Albarella U., Higham T. & McLean A. 2022. An Elusive Ghost: Searching for the Eagle Owl (Bubo bubo) in the Past of Britain. International Journal of Osteoarchaeology, 1-10. https://doi.org/10.1002/oa.3190.

J Evans JA, Pashley V, Mee K, Wagner D, Parker Pearson M, Fremondeau D, Albarella U. & Madgwick M. 2022. Applying lead (Pb) isotopes to explore mobility in humans and animals. PLoS ONE 17(10): e0274831. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0274831

J Hood M., Salvagno L. & Albarella U. 2022. A method for assessing relative wear rate in cattle molars, with an application to the Iron Age and Roman periods. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 45, 103613 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2022.103613.

J Aniceti V. & Albarella U. 2022. The role of sheep husbandry during the Arab agricultural revolution in medieval Sicily (7th-14th c. AD). Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 44, 103529. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2022.103529.

J Groot M. & Albarella U. 2022. Cattle husbandry in the Iron Age and Roman Netherlands: chronological developments

and regional differences in cattle frequencies, management, size and shape. Praehistorische Zeitschrift https://doi.org/10.1515/pz-2022-2053.

J Rizzetto M. & Albarella U. 2022. Livestock size and the Roman-Early Anglo-Saxon transition: Britain in North-West Europe. Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences 14:65 https://doi.org/10.1007/s12520-021-01494-y.

P Albarella U., Baker P., Browaeys E., Corbino C.A., Mulville J., Poland G. & Worley F. 2022. Editorial for ‘The Archaeology of Human-bird interactions: Essays in honour of Dale Serjeantson. Volume 2’. A monographic issue of Quaternary International, 1-5. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2021.04.006

J Corbino C., De Grossi Mazzorin J., Minniti C. & Albarella U. 2022. Earliest evidence of chicken in Italy. In Albarella U., Baker P., Browaeys E., Corbino C, Mulville J., Poland J. & Worley F. (eds.) The Archaeology of Human-Bird Interactions. A volume in honour of Dale Serjeantson. Volume 2. A monographic issue of Quaternary International, 80-86.

J Aniceti V. & Albarella U. 2022. Who’s eating pork? Investigating pig breeding and consumption in Byzantine, Islamic and Norman/Aragonese Sicily (7th-14th c. AD). Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 41, 103299.   

J Madgwick R., Lamb A., Sloane H., Nederbragt A., Albarella U., Parker Pearson M. & Evans J. 2021. A veritable confusion: use and abuse of isotope analysis in archaeology, Archaeological Journal 178:2, 361-385, DOI: 10.1080/00665983.2021.1911099. https://doi.org/10.1080/00665983.2021.1911099.

J Aniceti V., Albarella U. & Sebastiani S. 2021. The faunal assemblage from the manufacturing district at Spolverino: from the Roman Imperial period to Late Antiquity. Archaeofauna 30, 167-183. https://doi.org/10.15366/archaeofauna2021.30.

J Groot M., Albarella U., Eger J. & Evans J. 2021. Cattle management in an Iron Age/Roman settlement in the Netherlands: archaeozoological and stable isotope analysis. PLoS ONE 16(10): e0258234. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0258234.

J    Madgwick R., Lamb A., Sloane H., Nederbragt A., Albarella U., Parker Pearson M. & Evans J. 2021.   A veritable confusion: uses and abuses of isotope analysis in archaeology. Archaeological Journal 178(2), 361-385. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00665983.2021.1911099

J Salvagno L., Fraser T., Grau-Sologestoa I. & Albarella U. 2021. A Method to Assess Wear Rate in Pig Teeth from Archaeological Sites.  Journal of Archaeological Science 127, 105331 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2021.105331

J Groot M., Evans J & Albarella, U. 2020. Mobility of cattle in the Iron Age and Roman Netherlands. Journal of Archaeological Science Reports 32, 1024162 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2020.102416

P Albarella U., Baker P., Browaeys E., Corbino C.A., Mulville J., Poland G. & Worley F. 2020. Editorial for ‘The Archaeology of Human-bird interactions: Essays in honour of Dale Serjeantson. Volume 1’. Quaternary International 543, 1-7. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2020.03.040 

P Albarella, U., De Grossi Mazzorin, J. & Minniti, C. 2019. Urban pigs: dietary, cultural and landscape changes in 1st millennium AD Rome. In Peters, J. & Goebel, V. (eds) Documenta Archaeobiologiae 15. Animals: Cultural Identifiers in Ancient Societies? (eds. by J. Peters, G. McGlynn & V. Goebel), 17-30.

J Wright E., Tecce S and Albarella U. 2019. Animal remains from Roman roadside settlements in Britain: contextualising some new results from a settlement at Ware, Hertfordshire. Oxford Journal of Archaeology 38(3), 343-376.

J Salvagno L. & Albarella U. 2019. Was the English medieval goat genuinely rare? A new morphometric approach provides the answer. Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences 11(10), 5095–5132. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12520-019-00843-2. 

J Evans J., Madgwick R., Parker Pearson M. & Albarella U. 2019. Strontium and oxygen isotope evidence for the origin and movement of cattle at Late Neolithic Durrington Walls, UK. Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences 11(10), 5181–5197. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12520-019-00849- . 

J Madgwick R., Lamb A., Sloane H., Nederbragt A. Albarella U., Parker Pearson M. & Evans J. 2019. Multi-isotope analysis reveals that feasts in the Stonehenge 1 environs and across Wessex drew people and animals from throughout Britain. Science Advances, 5: eaau6078.

J Corbino C. & Albarella U. 2018. Wild birds of the Italian Middle Ages: diet, environment and society. Environmental Archaeology 23(4) DOI: 10.1080/14614103.2018.1516371.

J Grau-Sologestoa I. & Albarella U. 2018. The ‘long’ 16th century: a key period of animal husbandry change in England. Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences 11(6), 2781–2803. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12520-018-0723-6

J Davis, S.J.M., Albarella, U., Detry, C., Ginja, C., Götherström, A., Pires, A.E., Sendim, A. & Svensson, E.M. 2018. An osteometrical method for sexing cattle bones: the metacarpals from 17^th century Carnide, Lisbon, Portugal. Annalen des Naturhistorischen Museums in Wien, Serie A, 120, 367-387.

J Valenzuela-Lamas S. & Albarella U. 2017. Animal Husbandry across the Western Roman Empire: Changes and Continuities. European Journal of Archaeology 20(3), 402-15.

J Rizzetto M., Crabtree P., & Albarella U. 2017. Livestock Changes at the Beginning and End of the Roman Period in Britain: Issues of Acculturation, Adaptation, and ‘Improvement’. European Journal of Archaeology 20(3), 535-56. doi:10.1017/eaa.2017.13

J Salvagno L. & Albarella U. 2017 A morphometric system to distinguish sheep and goat postcranial bones. PLoS ONE 12(6): e0178543. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0178543

J Salvagno L., Viner-Daniels S. & Albarella U. 2017. Building and tanning in the 18th and 19th centuries: an analysis of cattle horncores from Greenwich High Road (London). Post-Medieval Archaeology, 145-163. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00794236.2016.1259377 online at: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00794236.2016.1259377

J Corbino C., De Grossi Mazzorin J., Minniti C. & Albarella U. 2017. The role of chicken in the medieval food system: evidence from Central Italy. Tijdschrift voor Mediterrane Archeologie 56, 50-57.

J Kazantzis, G. & Albarella, U. 2016. Size and shape of Greek Late Neolithic livestock suggest the existence of multiple and distinctive animal husbandry cultures. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 9, 630-645. 

J Valenzuela-Lamas S., Jiménez-Manchón S., Evans J., López D., Jornet R.,. Albarella U. 2016. 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. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 6, 828–836.

J Grau-Sologestoa, I, Albarella, U. & Quiros Castillo J.A. 2016. Urban medieval and post-medieval zooarchaeology in the Basque Country: Meat supply and consumption. Quaternary International 399, 1-12.

P Albarella U. 2016. Defining bone movement in archaeological stratigraphy: a plea for clarity. Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences 8(2), 353-8.

J Johnstone C. & Albarella U. 2015. The Late Iron Age and Romano-British mammal and bird bone assemblage from Elms Farm, Heybridge, Essex. In M.Atkinson & S.Preston. Heybridge: a Late Iron Age and Roman Settlement, Excavations at Elms Farm 1993-5, Volume 2, Internet Archaeology 40. http://dx.doi.org/10.11141/ia.38.1. URL: http://intarch.ac.uk/journal/issue40/1/4-2.html.

J Fiddyment S., Holsinger B., Ruzzier C., Devine A., Binois A., Albarella U., Fischer R., Nichols E., Curtis A., Cheese E., Teasdale M.D., Checkley-Scott C., Milner S.J., Rudy K.M., Johnson E.J., Vnoucek J., Garrison M., McGrory S., Bradley D.G. and Collins M.J. 2015. Animal origin of 13th-century uterine vellum revealed using noninvasive peptide fingerprinting. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 112 (49), 15066–15071

J Craig O.E., Shillito L-M., Albarella U., Viner-Daniels S., Chan B., Cleal R., Ixer R., Jay M., Marshall P., Simmons E., Wright E. & Parker Pearson M. 2015. Feeding Stonehenge: cuisine and consumption at the Late Neolithic site of Durrington Walls. Antiquity 89 (347): 1096–1109

J Wright E., Viner-Daniels S., Parker Pearson M. & Albarella U. 2014. Age and season of pig slaughter at late Neolithic Durrington Walls (Wiltshire, UK) as detected through a new system for recording tooth wear. Journal of Archaeological Science 52, 497-514.

J Minniti C., Valenzuela-Lamas S., Evans J. & Albarella U. 2014. 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. Journal of Archaeological Science 42, 305-314.

J Davis S., Svensson E., Albarella U., Detry C., Götherström A., Pires E., Ginja C. 2013. Evidencia de mejoras de ovino y vacuno durante época andalusí y cristiana en Portugal a partir del análisis zooarqueológico y de ADN antiguo. Debates de Arqueología Medieval 3, pp.241-87.

J Rowley-Conwy P., Albarella U. & Dobney K. 2012. Distinguishing wild boar from domestic pig in prehistory: a review of approaches and recent results. Journal of World Prehistory 25, 1-44.

J Davis S., Svensson, E., Albarella U., Detry C., Götherström A., Pires A.E. & Ginja C.. 2012. Molecular and osteometric sexing of cattle metacarpals: a case study from 15^th century AD Beja, Portugal. Journal of Archaeological Science 39, 1445-1454

J Masseti M., Albarella U. & De Grossi Mazzorin, J. 2011. The crested porcupine, Hystrix cristata L., 1758, in Italy. Anthropozoologica 45 (2). 27-42

J Viner S., Evans J., Albarella U. & Parker Pearson M. 2010. Cattle mobility in prehistoric Britain: strontium isotope analysis of cattle teeth from Durrington Walls (Wiltshire, Britain). Journal of Archaeological Science 37, 2812-20.

P 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), 103-136. 

P 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.

P 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. 

J 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.

P 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. 

J 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. 

P 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. 

J 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. 

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

P 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. 

J 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. 

P 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. 

J 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. 

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

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

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

P 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.

P 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.

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

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

P 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

P 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.

P 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.

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

P 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.

Book Reviews

P Albarella, U. 2019. Review of the book: “Humans, animals, and the craft of slaughter in archaeo-historic societies”. Antiquity 93 (370), 1096-1097.

P Albarella, U. 2019. Review of the book “The Donkey in Human History. An Archaeological Perspective”. Medieval Archaeology, 63(1)

P Albarella, U. 2018. Review of the book “Animaltown: Beasts in Medieval Urban Space”. Medieval Archaeology, 62(1), 187-8.

P Albarella, U. 2016. Review of the book “The Power of Feasts: From Prehistory to the Present”. European Journal of Archaeology 19(1), 153-7.

P Albarella, U. 2015. Review of the book “Animals in Saxon & Scandinavian England. Backbones of Economy and Society”. Medieval Archaeology, 59(1), 375.

P Albarella, U. 2013. Review of the book "The Medieval Kitchen: A Social History with Recipes". Reviews in History (review no. 1449). http://www.history.ac.uk/reviews/review/1449

P Albarella, U. 2012. Review of the book “Animals as Domesticates. A World View Through History”, Prehistoric Society.  http://www.prehistoricsociety.org/files/reviews/Animals_as_domesticates_final_review.pdf

P Albarella, U. 2012. Review of the book “Cultural Heritage, Ethics and the Military”, Australian Archaeology 74, 119-121.

P Albarella, U. 2011.Review of the book “Archaeozoology of the Near East VIII”. International Journal of Osteoarchaeology 21, e1-e4

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

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

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

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

P 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.

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

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

Abstracts, Reports & other Publications

P Albarella U., Ayala G., Johnston B., Jones G., Longford C. & Maccarinelli A. 2021. Sheffield and the making of environmental archaeology. AEA Newsletter 152, 2-5.

P Albarella U. 2021. Attacks on archaeology will harm efforts to restore the natural world. Inkcap Journal. https://www.inkcapjournal.co.uk/attacks-on-archaeology-will-harm-efforts-to-restore-the-natural-world/

P Albarella U. 2021. #SaveSheffieldArchaeology. Rescue eNews. August 2021. https://rescue-archaeology.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/Enews_August2021_Final.pdf

P Albarella U. 2021. The shame of Sheffield University: a death sentence for its archaeology. ICAZ Newsletter 21(2) 60-61.

P Albarella U. 2017. Helmet. Anglo-Saxon. Around 650 AD. Benty Grange, near Monyash, Derbyshire. In Everyday Wonders. 50 Objects from Weston Park Museum, p.11. Sheffield: Museum Sheffield.

J Zimmerman, E., Browaeys, E. & Albarella U. 2012 (2015). Centenary test pits: Faunal. Transactions of the Hunter Archaeological Society 26(1) The Centenary Volume, 101-103. 

J Albarella, U., Charles, M., Forster, E., Halstead, P., Jones, G., Russ. H., Trentacoste, A. & Wallace, M. 2012. Bioarchaeology and environmental archaeology at the University of Sheffield. Interdisciplinaria Archaeologica III(1), 171-8.

P Albarella, U. 2010. From Darwin to Kafka: five books that made my life. Assemblage 11.

P Albarella U. 2006. The ragged trousered corporatists. Assemblage 9. (internet publication see: http://www.assemblage.group.shef.ac.uk/issue9/albarella.html)

P Albarella U. 2003. The responsibilities of archaeology, AAW newsletter 2.

J 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. 

P 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. 

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

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

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

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

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

J 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. 

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

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

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

Research in Progress (Brief Description)

Papers:

P Albarella U. & Aniceti V. Submitted. ‘Unmaking’ the deer in the Middle Ages: a pan-European practice? European Journal of Archaeology.

J Wright E., Corbino C. & Albarella U. In prep.  Norton Priory, Runcorn, Cheshire. The Animal Bones. This is a substantial report that we have fully completed and handed in to the Norton Priory Museums Trust. We are now turning it into a publication to submit to Anthropozoologica.

J Corbino C., Metz M., Serjeantson D. & Albarella U. In prep. Birds for the soul: Human-bird interactions at British monastic sites. 

Conferences & Invited Seminars

Featured Selection

• December 2019: Organiser (with R.Hearne) of the session “Radical Archaeology: What is it? How do we do it? Why do we need it?”, including ‘Introduction to the Session’ and chairing of the discussion (TAG, London, UK). 
• October 2019: “Unmaking the deer in medieval England: the zooarchaeological evidence” (International Workshop Beyond Subsistence: Human-Nature Interactions, SFB 1070 ResourceCultures, Tübingen, Germany) [invited speaker].
• September 2019: “Revisiting the Italian shepherd: from the prehistoric past to contemporary challenges” (25th Annual Meeting of the European Association of Archaeologists, Bern, Switzerland)
• November 2018: Discussant (International Conference “Dogs Past & Present. An Interdisciplinary Perspective”, Rome, Italy) [invited speaker].
• September 2018: “Mobility of cattle herds in the Late Neolithic: a case study from southern Britain” (13th Conference of the International Council of Archaeozoology, Ankara, Turkey)
• September 2018: Co-organiser of the session “Teaching and outreach in zooarchaeology”, including acting as a discussant (13th Conference of the International Council of Archaeozoology, Ankara, Turkey) [invited speaker].
• September 2018: Discussant for the session “Long term temporal trends in animal use” (13th Conference of the International Council of Archaeozoology, Ankara, Turkey) [invited speaker].
• January 2018: Sheep sacrifice and Roman temples in Britain: the case of Elms Farm, Heybridge (Essex) (Conference: 2nd Roman Period ICAZ Working Group Meeting. Animals in funeral and ritual context, Basel, Switzerland)
• September 2017: Discussant for the session “The Power of Populations: Integrating Bioarchaeological and Historical Methods for the Assessment of our Medieval Past” (23rd Annual Meeting of the European Association of Archaeologists (EAA), Maastricht, Netherlands)
• June 2017: “From the Mediterranean to the Atlantic: Simon Davis’ exceptional contribution to the world of zooarchaeology” (Conference: “From the Mediterranean to the Atlantic: themes in European zooarchaeology The Archaeology of Animals – 30 Years In honor of Simon Davis”, Lisbon, Portugal) 
• September 2016: “Wild birds in medieval Italy: an investigation of their roles in environment, economy and society” (22nd Annual Meeting of the European Association of Archaeologists, Vilnius, Lithuania)
• July 2016: “Social status as expressed through food in medieval England: castles, manor houses and the zooarchaeological evidence” (Leeds International Medieval Congress, Leeds, UK)
• April 2016: “Urban pigs: cultural and dietary choice in Roman and early medieval Rome” (Conference: “Animals: Cultural Identifiers in Ancient Societies?”, Munich, Germany)
• December 2015: Discussant for session ““Humming with the cross fire and short on cover…”? Revisiting and reflecting on Environmental Archaeology: Meaning and Purpose” (TAG, Bradford, UK)
• May 2015: "Born to be free: pastoralism in the Sardinian upland" (Workshop: "Humans, livestock and their landscape: past, present and future", Sheffield, UK)
• November 2014: “Roman husbandry in central England: innovation and resistance” (1st Meeting of the ICAZ Working Group on the Zooarchaeology of the Roman period, Sheffield, UK)
• September 2014: “Re-deposition and residuality of animal bones from archaeological sites: a plea for clarity” (12th Conference of the International Council of Archaeozoology, San Rafael, Argentina)
• September 2014: “Sweeping generalizations? Methodological issues in large-scale zooarchaeological analysis” (12th Conference of the International Council of Archaeozoology, San Rafael, Argentina)
• September 2014: “The use of pigs in ritual offerings at Monte Papalucio, Oria (southern Italy)” (12th Conference of the International Council of Archaeozoology, San Rafael, Argentina)
• March 2014: “Was Romano-British husbandry innovative? An integrated approach to a complex question” (Roman Archaeology Conference, Reading, UK)