Simon Jonathan Morton Davis
Auxiliary Researcher
Environmental Archaeology
CIBIO, Centro de Investigacao em Biodiversidade e Recursos Geneticos
Portugal
Biography
"Born: London 1950. Education: BSc Zoology, University College London (1971); MSc Zoology, Hebrew University Jerusalem (1973); PhD Zoology, Hebrew University Jerusalem (1979). Thesis title: Large mammals of the Upper Pleistocene of Israel."
Research Interest
Research interests: man-animal relations during the last 50,000 years, use of archaeological remains of animals to reconstruct the palaeo-environment, the domestication of animals - when, where and why? Improvement of livestock in historical times, osteometric techniques for separating closely related taxa and wild-domestic forms. Zooarchaeological evidence for increasingly stressed conditions - the so-called Mesolithic Crisis - in southern Portugal during the millennia prior to the introduction of domestic animals.
Publications
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Davis SJM (2015) Extinction, arrival and improvement of Lusitanian animals. pp. 19-47. In: Penjon, J. and Pereira, C. (sous la direction) L’animal dans le monde lusophone. Presses Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris.
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Davis SJM, Detry C (2013) Crise no mesolÃtico: evidências zooarqueológicas. In: Arnaud JM, Martins A, Neves C (eds.). Arqueologia em Portugal – 150 Anos, Associação dos Arqueólogos Portugueses, Lisboa, 297-309.
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Davis SJM, Svensson EM, Albarella U, Detry C, Götherström A, Pires AE, Ginja C (2013) Evidencia de mejoras de ovino y vacuno durante época andalusà y Cristiana en Portugal a partir del análisis zooarqueológico y de ADN antiguo. Debates de Arqeológia Medieval, 3:241-288.
