Professor Alan Outram
Publications
Books
with AF Harding, R Sumberova, C Knusel, Velim: Violence and Death in Bronze Age Bohemia. The Results of Fieldwork 1992-95, with a Consideration of Peri-mortem Trauma and Deposition in the Bronze Age., Prague, Institute of Archaeology Prague, 2007.
with J Mulville, The Zooarchaeology of Fats, Oils, Milk and Dairying, Oxbow, 2005.
Articles
with R Bendrey, N Thorpe, LH van Wijngaarden-Bakker, The Origins of Domestic Horses in North-west Europe: new Direct Dates on the Horses of Newgrange, Ireland, Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society (London), vol. 79, 2013, 1-13
with LP Karr, Bone Degradation and Environment: Understanding, Assessing and Conducting Archaeological Experiments Using Modern Animal Bones, International Journal of Osteoarchaeology, 2012
with LP Karr, Tracking changes in bone fracture morphology over time: environment, taphonomy, and the archaeological record, JOURNAL OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL SCIENCE, 2012, 555-559
with A Kasparov, NA Stear, V Varfolomeev, E Usmanova, RP Evershed, Patterns of pastoralism in later Bronze Age Kazakhstan: New evidence from faunal and lipid residue analyses, Journal of Archaeological Science, vol. 39, no. 7, 2012, 2424-2435
with LP Karr, Actualistic research into dynamic impact and its implications for understanding differential bone fragmentation and survivorship, Journal of Archaeological Science, vol. 39, no. 11, 2012, 3443-3449
with NA Stear, A Kasparov, E Usmanova, V Varfolomeev, RP Evershed, Horses for the dead: Funerary foodways in bronze age kazakhstan, Antiquity, vol. 85, no. 327, 2011, 116-128
with LP Karr, LA Hannus, Open-area excavations at the Mitchell Prehistoric Indian Village, South Dakota (A.D. 1000-1150): new interpretations of site function from interdwelling areas., JOURNAL OF FIELD ARCHAEOLOGY, vol. 26, no. 4, 2011, 281-288
with LP Karr, LA Hannus, A Chronology of Bone Marrow and Bone Grease Exploitation at the Mitchell Prehistoric Indian Village, PLAINS ANTHROPLOGIST, vol. 55, 2010, 215-223
with NA Stear, R Bendrey, S Olsen, A Kasparov, V Zaibert, N Thorpe, RP Evershed, The earliest horse harnessing and milking., SCIENCE, vol. 323, no. 5919, 2009, 1332-1335
with LP Karr, LA Hannus, Bone marrow and bone grease exploitation on the plains of South Dakota: a new perspective on bone fracture evidence from the Mitchell Prehistoric Indian Village., SOUTH DAKOTA ARCHAEOLOGY, vol. 26, 2008, 33-62
Introduction to experimental archaeology, WORLD ARCHAEOLOGY, vol. 40, no. 1, ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD, 2008, 1-6
with A Harding, S Knight, C Knusel, Understanding Complex Fragmented Assemblages of Human and Animal Remains: A Fully Integrated Approach, JOURNAL OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL SCIENCE, vol. 32, no. 12, 2005, 1699-1710
Publishing Archaeological Experiments: a quick guide for the uninitiated, (RE)CONSTRUCTION AND EXPERIMENT IN ARCHAEOLOGY, vol. 2, 2005, 107-110
Applied Models and Indices vs. High-Resolution, Observed Data: Detailed Fracture and Fragmentation Analyses for the Investigation of Skeletal Part Abundance Patterns, JOURNAL OF TAPHONOMY, vol. 2, no. 3, 2004, 167-184
with CJ Knusel, Fragmentation: the zonation method applied to fragmented human remains from archaeological and forensic contexts., ENVIRONMENTAL ARCHAEOLOGY, vol. 9, no. 1, 2004, 85-98
Comparing levels of subsistence stress amongst Norse settlers in Iceland and Greenland using levels of bone fat exploitation as an indicator, ENVIRONMENTAL ARCHAEOLOGY, vol. 8, no. 2, 2003, 119-128
FOCUS: The scapula representation could be the key: A further contribution to the 'Klasies Pattern' debate, JOURNAL OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL SCIENCE, vol. 28, no. 12, ACADEMIC PRESS LTD ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD, 2001, 1259-1263
A New Approach to Identifying Bone Marrow and Grease Exploitation: Why the Indeterminate Fragments should not be Ignored, JOURNAL OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL SCIENCE, vol. 28, no. 4, 2001, 401-410
A comparison of Paleo-Eskimo and Medieval Norse bone fat exploitation in Western Greenland, ARCTIC ANTHROPOLOGY, vol. 36, no. 1-2, UNIV WISCONSIN PRESS, 1999, 103-117
Meat and marrow utility indices for horse (Equus), JOURNAL OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL SCIENCE, vol. 25, 1998, 839-849
Chapters
with AK Kasparov, Pervye rezul'taty izucheniia ostatkov mlekopitaiushchikh poseleniia Kent (The first results of the analysis of mammal remains from Kent settlement)., in Istoriko-kul'turnoe nasledie Saryarki, Karaganda: Pr.Hous KAR GU, 2007, 107-122
Hunter-Gatherers and the First Farmers: the Evolution of Taste in Prehistory, in Freedman P (eds) Food: A History of Taste, Berkley: University of California Press, 2007, 35-62
with SL Olsen, BA Bradley, D Maki, Community organization among Copper Age sedentary horse pastoralists of Kazakhstan, in Peterson D, Popova LM, Smith AT (eds) Beyond the Steppe and the Sown: Proceedings of the 2002 University of Chicago Conference on Eurasian Archaeology, Leiden: Brill, 2006, 89-111
with C Knusel, Fragmentation of the Body: Comestibles, Compost, or Customary Rite?, in Knüsel C, Gowland R (eds) The Social Archaeology of Funerary Remains, Oxford: Oxbow, 2006, 253-278
Juggling with indices: A review of the evidence and interpretations regarding Upper Palaeolithic horse skeletal part abundance, in Olsen SL, Grant S, Choyke AM, Bartosiewicz L (eds) Horses and Humans: The Evolution of Human Equine Relationships Symposium, Archaeopress, 2006, 49-60
Distinguishing bone fat exploitation from other taphonomic processes: what caused the high level of bone fragmentation at the Middle Neolithic site of Ajvide, Gotland?, in Mulville J, Outram AK (eds) The zooarchaeology of fats, oils, milk and dairying, Oxford: Oxbow, 2005, 32-43
Identifying dietary stress in marginal environments: bone fats, optimal foraging theory and the seasonal round, in Mondini M, Munoz S, Wickler S (eds) Colonisation, Migration, and Marginal Areas. A Zooarchaeological Approach, Oxbow, 2004, 74-85
Bone Fracture and Within-Bone Nutrients: An Experimentally Based Method for Investigating Levels of Marrow Extraction., in Miracle P, Milner N (eds) Consuming Passions and Patterns of Consumption, Cambridge: McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, 2002, 51-64
Hunting Meat and Scavenging Marrow: A seasonal explanation for Middle Stone Age subsistence strategies at Klasies River Mouth, in Rowley-Conwy P (eds) Animal Bones and Human Societies, Oxbow Books, 2000, 20-27
Animal Bone, in Noort RVD, Chapman HP, Collis JR (eds) Sutton Common: Excavation of an Iron Age ‘Marsh Fort’, York: CBA, 139-142
The Mammal Bones, in Rippon S (eds) Landscape and Community: landscape evolution on the North Somerset Levels, York: CBA, 241-244
Large Mammal Bones and Bird Bones, in Klemperer WD, Boothroyd N (eds) Excavations at Hulton Abbey, Staffordshire 1987 – 1994, Leeds: Society for Medieval Archaeology, 146-147
Economic Anatomy, Element Abundance and Optimality: A New Way of Examining Hunters’ Bone Transportation Choices., in Millard A (eds) Proceedings of Archaeological Sciences ’97., Oxford: British Archaeological Reports, 117-126
Editorial comments
with M Eren, Preface to 'Faunal Extinctions and Introductions', World Archaeology, vol. 44, no. 1, Routledge, 2012, 1-2
Others
Review of: Social Zooarchaeology. Humans and Animals in Prehistory by N Russell, Environmental Archaeology: the journal of human palaeoecology, vol. 18, no. 1, 2013, 83-84
Faunal Extinctions and Introductions, World Archaeology, vol. 44, no. 1, 2012
Review of: Origins of Agriculture in Western Central Asia: an Environmental-Archaeological Study, by David Harris., CAMB ARCHAEOL J, vol. 21, no. 2, CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS, 2011, 324-325
Review of B. Hanks and K. Linduff (eds) "Social Complexity in Prehistoric Eurasia Monuments, Metals, and Mobility", CAMBRIDGE ARCHAEOLOGICAL JOURNAL, vol. 20, no. 3, CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS, 2010, 467-468
Review of C. M. Woolgar, D. Serjeantson, and T. Waldron (Eds) "Food in medieval England. Diet and nutrition", HISTORY, vol. 93, no. 310, BLACKWELL PUBLISHING, 2008, 262-264
Experimental Archaeology, World Archaeology, vol. 40, no. 1, Routledge, 2008
Debates in World Archaeology, World Archaeology, vol. 38, no. 4, Routledge, 2006
Review of M. Levine, C. Renfrew, and K. Boyle (Eds)"Prehistoric steppe adaptation and the horse", ANTIQUITY, vol. 79, no. 305, ANTIQUITY, 2005, 712-713
