- Central European University
Department of Medieval Studies
9 Nador Street
H-1059 Budapest
Alice Choyke
Central European University, Medieval Studies, Faculty Member
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Anthropology, Archaeology, Cognitive Psychology, Prehistoric Archaeology, Medieval Archaeology, Experimental Archaeology, and 20 moreBioarchaeology, Zooarchaeology, Environmental Archaeology, Memory (Cognitive Psychology), Public Archaeology, Human-Animal Relations, Bone and Antler, Balkan Prehistory (Archaeology), Medieval Studies, Archaeological Method & Theory, Urban History, Neolithic Archaeology, Environmental Sustainability, Early Medieval Archaeology, Roman Archaeology, Bone Tools, Social zooarchaeology, Bronze Age (Archaeology), Bone Technology (Archaeology), and Neolithic & Chalcolithic Archaeology edit
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I am a zooarchaeologist with a long term interest in material culture studies and worked osseous objects in particular.edit
Ce lexique multilingue a ete etabli dans le cadre des travaux du Groupement De Recherche Europeen « Exploitation des matieres osseuses dans l’Europe prehistorique » (GDRE PREHISTOS) du CNRS. Il est concu comme un outil de travail qui vise... more
Ce lexique multilingue a ete etabli dans le cadre des travaux du Groupement De Recherche Europeen « Exploitation des matieres osseuses dans l’Europe prehistorique » (GDRE PREHISTOS) du CNRS. Il est concu comme un outil de travail qui vise a repertorier et a traduire dans les differentes langues parlees au sein du Groupement, les principaux termes - d’ordre technique, typologique ou fonctionnel - utilises dans l’etude des industries en matieres dures animales. Cette version fait suite a celle publiee en 2010 et propose une liste elargie de termes traduits en 12 langues (francais, anglais, allemand, danois, espagnol, italien, portugais, roumain, bulgare, polonais, russe et hongrois).
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One of the difficulties in the analysis of bone tools is the necessity of quantifying and understanding variability within formai morphological types because typology is often defined by species and skeletal part despite similarities in... more
One of the difficulties in the analysis of bone tools is the necessity of quantifying and understanding variability within formai morphological types because typology is often defined by species and skeletal part despite similarities in use wear and, thus presumably in function. While some morphological types stick close/y to a formai definition others are made in a cruder, more opportunistic fashion on a variety of skeletal elements. Thus, there is a manufacture quality continuum along which individual tools Jal/. Clusters of tools of a general type from a particular assemblage falling near the extremes of this continuum have been termed Class I (planned) and Class Il (opportunistic). It is suggested here that better quality tools reflect the economic importance of the task they were used in to the society as a whole, whereas more crudely made tools reflect the persona/ needs of an individual persan in certain task(s) or activities. Variables examined include species and skeletal p...
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Preface Jean-Denis Vigne, Christine Lefevre and Marylene Patou-Mathis Introduction to the volume Alice Choyke and Sonia O'Connor Keynote Paper 1. Hidden Agendas: Ancient Raw Material Choice for Worked Osseous Objects in Central Europe... more
Preface Jean-Denis Vigne, Christine Lefevre and Marylene Patou-Mathis Introduction to the volume Alice Choyke and Sonia O'Connor Keynote Paper 1. Hidden Agendas: Ancient Raw Material Choice for Worked Osseous Objects in Central Europe and Beyond Alice Choyke Raw Material Selection and Curation within Tool Types 2. Osseous Retouchers from the Final Mousterian and Uluzzian Levels at the Fumane Cave (Verona, Italy): Preliminary Results Camille Jequier, Matteo Romandini, Marco Peresani 3. Raw Material Used in the Manufacture of Osseous Artefacts during the Upper Palaeolithic in Portugal Marina AlmeidaEvora 4. The Identification of Perishable Technologies through Usewear on Osseous Tools: Wear Patterns on Historic and Contemporary Tools as a Standard for Identifying Raw Materials Worked in the Late Upper Palaeolithic Elisabeth A. Stone 5. Bone Material and Design Choices in Southern Patagonia Vivian Scheinsohn 6. Changed into Tools. Camelid Bones from the Southern CalchaquiValleys (F...
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ABSTRACTBetween the fourth century B.C. and second century A.D., changes in climate, culture and commerce converged to extend networks of influence and intensify social stratification in communities situated along the Silk Road. The... more
ABSTRACTBetween the fourth century B.C. and second century A.D., changes in climate, culture and commerce converged to extend networks of influence and intensify social stratification in communities situated along the Silk Road. The horse-riding nomads and agro-pastoralists of what is now Southeastern Kazakhstan were important actors in the unfolding of these events. The settlements and kurgan burials of the Saka and Wusun could be found dotting the alluvial fans north of the Tien Shan Mountains just a short time before Alexander the Great founded outposts in the Ferghana Valley and Chinese emissaries formalized relations with their periphery. In other words, the appearance of Iron Age Saka-Wusun sites anticipated the formation of the Silk Road’s northern branch and subsequently helped mediate long-distance relationships connecting East and West. Historical accounts appear to confirm the presence of the Saka and Wusun in this role, but there is much that remains unknown regarding re...
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Buitenhuis, H and Choyke, AM and Martin, LA and Bartosiewicz, L and Mashkour, ME (Eds). (2005) Archaeozoology of the Near East VI: Proceedings of the sixth international symposium on the archaeozoology of southwestern Asia and adjacent... more
Buitenhuis, H and Choyke, AM and Martin, LA and Bartosiewicz, L and Mashkour, ME (Eds). (2005) Archaeozoology of the Near East VI: Proceedings of the sixth international symposium on the archaeozoology of southwestern Asia and adjacent areas. ARC Publications 123. ARC Publications: Groningen. ... Full text not available from this repository. ... Archaeozoology of the Near East VI: Proceedings of the sixth international symposium on the archaeozoology of southwestern Asia and adjacent areas.
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Choyke, A. M. 1997. The animal bone material from the Ladik Street. Communicationes Archaeologicae Hungariae, Budapest, 1997: 148-152
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Choyke, A. M. 1987. The exploitation of red deer in the Hungarian Bronze Age. Archaeozoologia I (1), Bordeaux: 109-116.
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Animals have been woven almost imperceptibly into the complex web of human existence from the very beginning of human history. From the far off times of the Paleolithic past up to the present day, animals have permeated every aspect of... more
Animals have been woven almost imperceptibly into the complex web of human existence from the very beginning of human history. From the far off times of the Paleolithic past up to the present day, animals have permeated every aspect of our ancestor's lives and our own. Archaeozoology is the identification, analysis and scientific as well as socio-cultural interpretation of animal remains from archaeological sites. Such zoological finds have been exposed to ancient human activity (animal husbandry, processing etc.). Consequently, ...
Bartosiewicz, L. – Choyke, A. M. 1991. Animal remains from the 1970-1972 excavations of Iatrus (Krivina), Bulgaria. Acta Archaeologica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae 43: 181-209.
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página dedicada a la investigación cientifica pluridisciplinaria de la zona andina de america del sur (peru, bolivia, colombia y ecuador).
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Close Document Image Close Document Printer Image Print This Document! Conservation Information Network (BCIN). Author: Bartosiewicz, Laszlo; Choyke, Alice M.; Horlai, Janos Title Article/Chapter: "From sampling to data ...
Page 1. 1 From Hooves to Horns, from Mollusc to Mammoth Manufacture and Use of Bone Artefacts from Prehistoric Times to the Present Proceedings of the 4th Meeting of the ICAZ Worked Bone Research Group at Tallinn, 26th31st of August 2003... more
Page 1. 1 From Hooves to Horns, from Mollusc to Mammoth Manufacture and Use of Bone Artefacts from Prehistoric Times to the Present Proceedings of the 4th Meeting of the ICAZ Worked Bone Research Group at Tallinn, 26th31st of August 2003 Edited by ...
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Choyke, A. M. 1998. Comments on the osteological identification of Neolithic bone tools from Switzerland. Acta Archaeologica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae 50: 233-242.
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Sofaer, Joanna., Bender Jorgensen, L. and Choyke, A.(2011) Craft production: ceramics, textiles and bone. In, Harding, A. and Fokkens, H.(eds.) The Oxford Handbook of the European Bronze Age. Oxford, UK, Oxford University Press.(In Press)
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The prehistory and history of the Carpathian Basin have long been treated as a series of moszly discontinuous cultural events triggered by population movements largely from the East and South of an ambiguous nature. Twenty years of... more
The prehistory and history of the Carpathian Basin have long been treated as a series of moszly discontinuous cultural events triggered by population movements largely from the East and South of an ambiguous nature. Twenty years of research into the nature of prehistoric bone working in Hungary, which lies at the center of this geographic region, has begun to reveal spatial and temporal continuities in bone tool. Some of these continuities, cross-cutting modern precepts of archaeological cultures, are found over very wide areas, ...
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Choyke, A. M. 1984. Patterns in the use of cattle and sheep/goat metapodials in Bronze Age Hungary. In C. Grigson - J. Clutton-Brock eds.: Animals in Archaeology 4. Husbandry in Europe. British Archaeological Reports, International Series... more
Choyke, A. M. 1984. Patterns in the use of cattle and sheep/goat metapodials in Bronze Age Hungary. In C. Grigson - J. Clutton-Brock eds.: Animals in Archaeology 4. Husbandry in Europe. British Archaeological Reports, International Series 227, Oxford: 57-66
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Choyke, A.M. 1999. Bone skates: raw material, manufacturing and use. In A. Vaday ed.: Pannonia and beyond. Studies in honour of László Barkóczi. Antaeus 24/1997-1998: 148-156
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Page 1. 51 Prehistoric Bone Tools and the Archaeozoological Perspective: Research in Central Europe Alice M. Choyke Aquicum Museum, Hungary Jörg Schibler IPNA, Universität Basel, Switzerland Introduction Bone tool ...
The extinct aurochs (Bos primigenius primigenius) was a large type of cattle that ranged over almost the whole Eurasian continent. The aurochs is the wild progenitor of modern cattle, but it is unclear whether European aurochs contributed... more
The extinct aurochs (Bos primigenius primigenius) was a large type of cattle that ranged over almost the whole Eurasian continent. The aurochs is the wild progenitor of modern cattle, but it is unclear whether European aurochs contributed to this process. To provide new insights into the demographic history of aurochs and domestic cattle, we have generated high-confidence mitochondrial DNA sequences from 59 archaeological skeletal finds, which were attributed to wild European cattle populations based on their chronological date and/or morphology. All pre-Neolithic aurochs belonged to the previously designated P haplogroup, indicating that this represents the Late Glacial Central European signature. We also report one new and highly divergent haplotype in a Neolithic aurochs sample from Germany, which points to greater variability during the Pleistocene. Furthermore, the Neolithic and Bronze Age samples that were classified with confidence as European aurochs using morphological crit...
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Ancient History, Geography, Zooarchaeology, Archaeozoology, Ancient Greek History, and 15 moreMedicine, The Royal Society, Middle East, Biological Sciences, Mitochondrial DNA, Europe, Haplotypes, Animals, Domestication, Cattle Domestication, Aurochs (Bos promigenius), Cattle, cattle mDNA, Molecular Sequence Data, and Medical and Health Sciences
Schibler, J. – Jacomet, S. – Choyke, A.M. 2004. Lake Dwellings in the Alpine Region. In: Peter Bogucki and Pamela J. Crabtree (eds.), Ancient Europe, 8000 B.C. to A.D. 1000: An Encyclopedia of the Barbarian World, New York:... more
Schibler, J. – Jacomet, S. – Choyke, A.M. 2004. Lake Dwellings in the Alpine Region. In: Peter Bogucki and Pamela J. Crabtree (eds.), Ancient Europe, 8000 B.C. to A.D. 1000: An Encyclopedia of the Barbarian World, New York: Schribners' Sons.
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This is an introductory paper to the special issue "Bones and Society".
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Beads, beadwork, and personal ornaments are made of diverse materials such as shell, bone, stones, minerals, and composite materials. Their exploration from geographical and chronological settings around the world offers a glimpse at some... more
Beads, beadwork, and personal ornaments are made of diverse materials such as shell, bone, stones, minerals, and composite materials. Their exploration from geographical and chronological settings around the world offers a glimpse at some of the cutting edge research within the fast growing field of personal ornaments in humanities’ past. Recent studies are based on a variety of analytical procedures that highlight humankind’s technological advances, exchange networks, mortuary practices, and symbol-laden beliefs. Papers discuss the social narratives behind bead and beadwork manufacture, use and disposal; the way beads work visually, audibly and even tactilely to cue wearers and audience to their social message(s). Understanding the entangled social and technical aspects of beads require a broad spectrum of technical and methodological approaches including the identification of the sources for the raw material of beads. These scientific approaches are also combined in some instances with experimentation to clarify the manner in which beads were produced and used in past societies.
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1: The archaeology of beads, beadwork and personal ornaments.
Alice M. Choyke and Daniella E. Bar-Yosef Mayer
PART 1: SOCIO-CULTURAL REFLECTIONS
2. Traditions and change in scaphopod shell beads in northern Australia from the Pleistocene to the recent past.
Jane Balme and Sue O'Connor
3. Magdalenian “beadwork time” in the Paris Basin (France): correlation between personal ornaments and the function of archaeological sites.
Caroline Peschaux, Grégory Debout, Olivier Bignon-Lau And Pierre Bodu
4. Personal adornment and personhood among the Last Mesolithic foragers of the Danube Gorges in the Central Balkans and beyond.
Emanuela Cristiani and Dušan Borić
5. Ornamental Shell Beads as Markers of Exchange in the Pre-Pottery Neolithic B of the Southern Levant.
Ashton Spatz
6. Games, Exchange, and Stone: hunter-gatherer beads at home.
Emily Mueller Epstein
PART 2: AUDIO AND VISUAL SOCIAL CUES
7. The Natufian audio-visual bone pendants from Hayonim Cave.
Dana Shaham and Anna Belfer-Cohen
8. Bead Biographies from Neolithic Burial Contexts: Contributions from the Microscope.
Annelou van Gijn
9. The Tutankhamun Beadwork, an Introduction to Archaeological Beadwork Analysis.
Jolanda E. M. F. Bos
PART 3: METHODOLOGICAL APPROACHES
10. A Mother-of-Pearl Shell Pendant from Nexpa, Morelos.
Adrián Velázquez-Castro, Patricia Ochoa-Castillo, Norma Valentín-Maldonado, Belem Zúñiga-Arellano
11. Detailing the bead maker: Reflectance Transformation Imaging (RTI) of steatite disk beads from prehistoric Napa Valley, California.
Tsim D. Schneider and Lori D. Hager
12. Exploring Manufacturing Traces and Social Organization using Prehistoric Mortuary Beads in the Salish Sea Region of the Northwest Coast of North America.
David Bilton and Danielle A. Macdonald
Table of Contents
1: The archaeology of beads, beadwork and personal ornaments.
Alice M. Choyke and Daniella E. Bar-Yosef Mayer
PART 1: SOCIO-CULTURAL REFLECTIONS
2. Traditions and change in scaphopod shell beads in northern Australia from the Pleistocene to the recent past.
Jane Balme and Sue O'Connor
3. Magdalenian “beadwork time” in the Paris Basin (France): correlation between personal ornaments and the function of archaeological sites.
Caroline Peschaux, Grégory Debout, Olivier Bignon-Lau And Pierre Bodu
4. Personal adornment and personhood among the Last Mesolithic foragers of the Danube Gorges in the Central Balkans and beyond.
Emanuela Cristiani and Dušan Borić
5. Ornamental Shell Beads as Markers of Exchange in the Pre-Pottery Neolithic B of the Southern Levant.
Ashton Spatz
6. Games, Exchange, and Stone: hunter-gatherer beads at home.
Emily Mueller Epstein
PART 2: AUDIO AND VISUAL SOCIAL CUES
7. The Natufian audio-visual bone pendants from Hayonim Cave.
Dana Shaham and Anna Belfer-Cohen
8. Bead Biographies from Neolithic Burial Contexts: Contributions from the Microscope.
Annelou van Gijn
9. The Tutankhamun Beadwork, an Introduction to Archaeological Beadwork Analysis.
Jolanda E. M. F. Bos
PART 3: METHODOLOGICAL APPROACHES
10. A Mother-of-Pearl Shell Pendant from Nexpa, Morelos.
Adrián Velázquez-Castro, Patricia Ochoa-Castillo, Norma Valentín-Maldonado, Belem Zúñiga-Arellano
11. Detailing the bead maker: Reflectance Transformation Imaging (RTI) of steatite disk beads from prehistoric Napa Valley, California.
Tsim D. Schneider and Lori D. Hager
12. Exploring Manufacturing Traces and Social Organization using Prehistoric Mortuary Beads in the Salish Sea Region of the Northwest Coast of North America.
David Bilton and Danielle A. Macdonald