The Cultural Evolution of Neolithic Europe. EUROEVOL Dataset 2: Zooarchaeological Data

Abstract

The datasets described in this paper comprises the animal bone data collected as part of the Cultural Evolution of Neolithic Europe project (EUROEVOL), led by Professor Stephen Shennan, UCL, representing the largest collection of animal bone data for the European Neolithic (Figure 1) with >3 million NISP counts and >36,000 biometric measurements. This is one of three datasets resulting from the EUROEVOL project; the other two comprising the core spatial and temporal structure of the project, including all radiocarbon dates (EUROEVOL Dataset 1) and archaeobotanical data (EUROEVOL Dataset 3) - http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/1469811/.

Keywords

• EUROEVOL
• Animal bone
• Neolithic
• Europe
• NISP
• Biometrics