{"id":4712,"date":"2025-12-15T16:03:53","date_gmt":"2025-12-15T21:03:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/ealab\/?p=4712"},"modified":"2025-12-18T10:08:27","modified_gmt":"2025-12-18T15:08:27","slug":"marston-co-author-on-cattle-diet-and-management-at-gordion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/ealab\/2025\/12\/15\/marston-co-author-on-cattle-diet-and-management-at-gordion\/","title":{"rendered":"Marston co-author on cattle diet and management at Gordion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In an <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.jas.2025.106451\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">article just published<\/a> in the <em>Journal of Archaeological Science<\/em>, lead author <a href=\"https:\/\/research.rug.nl\/en\/persons\/audrey-crabb\u00e9\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Audrey Crabb\u00e9<\/a> and co-authors, including Marston, present the first isotopic data on pathological cattle foot bones, which indicate their status as draught animals. Comparing pathological and non-pathological cattle bones from <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/ealab\/research\/current-projects\/gordion\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Gordion<\/a>, isotopic evidence reveals that draught cattle received specific diets with more regulated feeding strategies than non-pathological cattle, with diets involving cultivated cereals, legumes, and wild forage. Additionally, the isotopic composition of these bones indicates a shift from diverse strategies of agropastoralism to more intensive, cereal-focused land use that were likely linked to political centralization and population growth during the rise of the Phrygian Kingdom during the Iron Age.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an article just published in the Journal of Archaeological Science, lead author Audrey Crabb\u00e9 and co-authors, including Marston, present the first isotopic data on pathological cattle foot bones, which indicate their status as draught animals. Comparing pathological and non-pathological cattle bones from Gordion, isotopic evidence reveals that draught cattle received specific diets with more [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7432,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9,7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/ealab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4712"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/ealab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/ealab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/ealab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7432"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/ealab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4712"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/ealab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4712\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4714,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/ealab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4712\/revisions\/4714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/ealab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/ealab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/ealab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}