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Marsha Ann Levine

1976 Levine, M.A. Interpretation of macrofauna from archaeological deposits, in J.C. Miskovsky (ed.), Approche Ecologique de L'Homme Fossile: 57-61. Bulletin de l'Association Francaise pour l'Etude du Quaternaire supplement no. 47

1979 Levine, M.A. Archaeozoological analysis of some Upper Pleistocene horse bone assemblages in western Europe. Unpublished Ph.D. dissertation, Department of Archaeology, University of Cambridge.

1982 Levine, M.A. The use of crown height measurements and eruption-wear sequences to age horse teeth, in B.Wilson, C. Grigson & S. Payne (ed.), Ageing and Sexing Animal Bones from Archaeological Sites: 223-50. BAR British Series 109. Oxford: British Archaeological Reports.

1983 Levine, M.A. The fauna from Filiestru, in D. Trump (ed.), La Grotta di Filiestru a Bonu Ighinu, Mara, (ss): 109-31. Quaderni 13. Turin: Ministero Dei Beni Culturali e Ambientali. (English ms.)

1983 Levine, M.A. Mortality models and the interpretation of horse population structure, in G.N. Bailey (ed.), Hunter-Gatherer Economy in Prehistory: 23-46. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

1984 Levine, M.A. The fauna from Houmian (Iran), Iran XXII: 25-9.

1986 Levine, M.A. The vertebrate fauna from Meare East, in J.M. Coles (ed.), Somerset Levels Papers 12: 61-71.

1986 Levine, M.A. Animal remains, in H. Hurst, Gloucester, the Roman and Later Defences: 81-4. Gloucester Archaeological Reports, Vol. 2. Gloucester: Gloucester Archaeological Publications.

1990 Levine, M.A. Dereivka and the problem of horse domestication, Antiquity 64: 727-40.

1991 Levine, M.A. Nature of archaeozoological collection: control of access, in E. Henry (ed.), Guide to the Curation of Archaeozoological Collections: 83-5. Gainesville: Florida Museum of Natural History.

1993 Levine, M.A. Social evolution and horse domestication, in C. Scarre & F. Healy (ed.), Trade and Exchange in Prehistoric Europe: 135-41. Oxford: Oxbow.

1994 Levine, M.A. Mammal and bird remains, in H.R. Hurst (ed.), Excavations at Carthage, the British Mission: 314-19. Vol. II/1. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

1995 Levine, M.A. Animal bone, in J.J. Wymer & N.R. Brown (ed.), Excavations at North Shoebury: Settlement and Economy in South-east Essex 1500 BC-AD1500: 130-41. East Anglian Archaeology Report No. 75. Chelmsford: Essex County Council Archaeology Section.

1996 Levine, M.A. & Y. Y. Rassamakin. Problems related to archaeozoological research on Ukrainian Neolithic to Bronze Age sites, in The Don-Donets Region in the Bronze Age System of the East European Steppe and Forest Steppe: 25-9. Vol 2. Russian-Ukrainian Conference and Ukrainian-Russian Field Seminar. Voronezh. [in Russian]

1996 Levine, M.A. The palaeopathology of horse husbandry, Equinet 4.

1996 Levine, M.A. Domestication of the horse, in B.M. Fagan, C. Beck, G. Michaels, C. Scarre & N.A. Silberman (ed.), The Oxford Companion to Archaeology: 315-7. New York: Oxford University Press.

1997 Levine, M.A. & A. M. Kislenko. New Eneolithic and Early Bronze Age radiocarbon dates for North Kazakhstan and South Siberia, Cambridge Archaeological Journal 7(2): 297-300.

1998 Levine, M.A. Eating horses: the evolutionary significance of hippophagy, Antiquity 72: 90-100. [Hippophagy.pdf]

1998 Levine, M.A. Domestication and the early horse peoples, in E. Peplow (ed.), Encyclopedia of the Horse: 12-15. London: Hamlyn.

1999 Levine, M.A. Botai and the origins of horse domestication, Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 18(1): 29-78. [JAA article.pdf]

1999 Levine, M.A. Investigating the origins of horse domestication, in The Role of the Horse in Europe: 6-14. Equine Veterinary Journal Supplement 28.

1999 Levine, M.A., Y. Y. Rassamakin, A. M. Kislenko & N. S. Tatarintseva (ed.). Late Prehistoric Exploitation of the Eurasian Steppe. McDonald Institute Monograph. Cambridge: McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research.

1999 Levine, M. A. The origins of horse husbandry on the Eurasian Steppe. Late Prehistoric Exploitation of the Eurasian Steppe. M. A. Levine, Y. Y. Rassamakin, A. M. Kislenko and N. S. Tatarintseva. Cambridge, McDonald Institute: 5-58. [steppe book paper 2.zip]

2000 Levine, M.A., T.C. O’Connell & R.E.M. Hedges. The importance of fish in the diet of central Eurasian peoples from the Mesolithic to the Early Iron Age, pre-circulated paper for the Symposium Late Prehistoric Exploitation of the Eurasian Steppe held at the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, Cambridge, 12 – 16 January 2000.

2000 Levine, M.A., G.N. Bailey, K. Whitwell & L. Jeffcott. Palaeopathology and horse domestication: The case of some Iron Age horses from the Altai Mountains, Siberia, in G.N. Bailey, R. Charles & N. Winder (ed.), Human Ecodynamics and Environmental Archaeology: 123-33. Oxford: Oxbow.

2000 Levine, M.A. A preliminary examination of early Iron Age horse palaeopathology at Ak-Alakha 5, Kurgan 3 [Osobennosti paleopatologii loshadei epokhi rannego zheleza], in A.P. Derevianko & V.I. Molodin (ed.), The Phenomenon of the Altai Mummies [Fenomen Altaiskikh Mumii]: 243-49. Novosibirsk: Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography.

2002 Jansen, T., P. Forster, M. Levine, H. Oelke, M. Hurles, C. Renfrew, J. Weber, & K. Olek. Mitochondrial DNA and the origins of the domestic horse, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 99(16): 10905-10. [Jansen et al PNAS.pdf]

2002 Levine, M.A. Cutting Edge, an Equine Inquiry, The Times Higher Education Supplement, October 4, no. 1558: 22.

2002 Levine, M.A., K.E. Whitwell & L.B. Jeffcott. A Romano-British horse burial from Icklingham, Suffolk, Archaeofauna 11: 63-102.

2002 Boyle, K., C. Renfrew and M. Levine (ed.). Ancient Interactions: East and West in Eurasia. McDonald Institute Monograph. Cambridge: McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research.

2002 Levine, M.A. & A.M. Kislenko. Revised Eneolithic and Early Bronze Age radiocarbon dates for North Kazakhstan and South Siberia, in K. Boyle, C. Renfrew & M. Levine (ed.), Ancient Interactions: East and West in Eurasia: 131-4. McDonald Institute Monograph. Cambridge: McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research. [Levine&Kislenko.zip]

2003 Levine, M.A., C. Renfrew & K. Boyle (ed.). Prehistoric Steppe Adaptation and the Horse. McDonald Institute Monograph. Cambridge: McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research.

2003 Levine, M.A. Focusing on Central Eurasian archaeology: East meets West, in M.A. Levine, C. Renfrew & K. Boyle (ed.), Prehistoric Steppe Adaptation and the Horse: 1-8. McDonald Institute Monograph. Cambridge: McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research. [steppe book 3.zip]

2003 Dudd, S. N., R.P. Evershed & M.A. Levine. Organic residue analysis of lipids in potsherds from the early Eneolithic settlement of Botai, Kazakhstan, in M.A. Levine, C. Renfrew & K. Boyle (ed.), Prehistoric Steppe Adaptation and the Horse: 45-54. McDonald Institute Monograph. Cambridge: McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research.

2003 O’Connell, T.C., M.A. Levine & R.E.M. Hedges. The importance of fish in the diet of central Eurasian peoples from the Mesolithic to the Early Iron Age, in M.A. Levine, C. Renfrew & K. Boyle (ed.), Prehistoric Steppe Adaptation and the Horse: 253-268. McDonald Institute Monograph. Cambridge: McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research.

2004 Levine, M.A. Exploring the criteria for early horse domestication, in M. Jones (ed.), Traces of Ancestry: Studies in Honour of Colin Renfrew: 115-26. McDonald Institute Monograph. Cambridge: McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research.

2004 Levine, M.A. The Faunal Remains, in D. Jennings, J. Muir, S. Palmer & A. Smith, Thornhill Farm, Fairford, Gloucestershire: An Iron Age and Roman Settlement in the Upper Thames Valley: 109-132. Thames Valley Landscape Monograph No 23. Oxford: Oxford Archaeology.

2005 Levine, M.A. Domestication and early history of the horse, in D.M. Mills & S.M. McDonnell (ed.), The Domestic Horse: the Origins, Development and Management of its Behaviour. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp 5-22. [Horse behaviour.zip]

2005 Levine, M.A., K.E. Whitwell & L.B. Jeffcott. Abnormal thoracic vertebrae and the evolution of horse husbandry, Archaeofauna, 14, pp. 93-109. [ML-KW-LBJ_Archaeofauna_05.pdf]

2006 Levine, M.A. mtDNA and horse domestication: the archaeologist’s cut, in M. Mashkour (ed.), Equids in Time and Space. Proceedings of the 9th international Conference of Archaeozoology (Durham). Oxford: Oxbow, pp. 192-201. [Chap 15_Levine.pdf]

2006 Levine, M.A., Xunhua Ma De Qiyuan Yanjiu [Investigating the origins of horse domestication], Tulufanxue Yanjiu [Turfanological Research] 2002 (2):31-44. (in Chinese)

2006 McGahern, A., M. M. Bower, C. J. Edwards, P. O. Brophy, G. Sulimova, I. Zacharov, M. Vizuete-Forster, M. Levine, S. Li, D. E. MacHugh and E. W. Hill. "Evidence for biogeographic patterning of mitochondrial DNA sequences in Eastern horse populations." Animal Genetic, 37, 494-497. [McGahern et al 2006 Asian horses.pdf]

in prep. Levine, M., Whitwell, K., Jeffcott, L., Barker, G. A new methodology for describing and grading osteological changes and abnormalities in modern and ancient horses: thoracic vertebrae.

Goodwin, D., M. Levine, P. McGreevy. 2008. "Preliminary investigation of morphological differences between ten breeds of horses suggests selection for paedomorphosis." Journal of Applied Animal Welfare Science, 11 (3), pp 204–212.

"Siraf, Site M - mammals, birds and reptiles", unpublished.