Research

Joris Peters

Research topics

  • Fauna and human-animal-environment relationships in Europe, western Asia, and Africa in prehistoric and early historic times, based on macroscopic and molecular biological analysis of animal remains from anthropogenic legacies.
  • Cultural history of domestic animals: domestication, distribution, livestock and animal breeding practices, veterinary medicine.
  • Comparative osteology of vertebrates
  • Co-editor of the Yearbook “Documenta Archaeobiologiae“, published by the Bavarian State Collection for Anthropology and Paleoanatomy