The Oxford handbook of zooarchaeology

The Oxford handbook of zooarchaeology / edited by Umberto Albarella with Mauro Rizzetto, Hannah Russ, Kim Vickers, Sarah Viner-Daniels.

'The Oxford Handbook of Zooarchaeology' offers a cutting-edge compendium of zooarchaeology the world over that seeks to provide a holistic view of the role played by animals in shaping human history, with case studies from five continents examining human-animal relationships across a range...

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Other Authors: Albarella, Umberto (Editor), Rizzetto, Mauro (Editor), Russ, Hannah (Editor), Vickers, Kim (Editor), Daniels, Sarah (Sarah M.) (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2017.
Series:Oxford handbooks online.
Subjects:
Animal remains (Archaeology) > Handbooks, manuals, etc.
Human-animal relationships > History > Handbooks, manuals, etc.
Animal remains (Archaeology)
Human-animal relationships
History.
handbooks.
Handbooks and manuals
History
Handbooks and manuals.
Guides et manuels.
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Table of Contents:
  • Zooarchaeology in the twenty-first century : where we come from, where we are now, and where we are going / Umberto Albarella
  • Humans and mammals in the Upper Palaeolithic of Russia / Mietje Germonpré, Mikhail Sablin
  • Changes in lifestyle in ancient Rome (Italy) across the Iron Age/Roman transition : the evidence from animal remains / Jacopo De Grossi, Claudia Minniti
  • Zooarchaeological evidence for Moslem improvement of sheep (Ovis aries) in Portugal / Simon Davis
  • Animals in urban life in Medieval to Early Modern England / Terry O'Connor
  • From bovid to beaver : mammal exploitation in Medieval north-west Russia / Mark Maltby
  • The zooarchaeology of Medieval Ireland / Finbar McCormick, Emily Murray
  • Fishing, wildfowling and marine mammal exploitation in northern Scotland from prehistory to Early Modern times / Dale Serjeantson
  • The emergence of livestock husbandry in Early Neolithic Anatolia / Joris Peters, Nadja Poellath, Benjamin Arbuckle
  • South Asian contributions to animal domestication and pastoralism : bones, genes and archaeology / Ajita Patel, Richard Meadow
  • The zooarchaeology of complexity and specialisation during the Upper Palaeolithic in Western Europe : changing diversity and evenness / Katherine Boyle
  • The zooarchaeology of Neolithic China / Xiaolin Ma, Li Liu
  • Subsistence economy, animal domestication and herd management in prehistoric central Asia (Neolithic
  • Iron Age) / Norbert Benecke
  • Introduction of domestic animals to the Japanese archipelago / Hitomi Hongo
  • Farming, social change and state formation in south-east Asia / Charles F.W. Higham
  • The zooarchaeology of early historic periods in the southern Levant / Sarah Kansa, Justin E. Lev-Tov
  • Middle and Later Stone Age hunters and their prey in southern Africa / Ina Plug
  • Pastoralism in sub-Saharan Africa : emergence and ramifications / Diane Gifford-Gonzalez
  • Cattle, a major component of the Kerma culture (Sudan) / Louis Chaix
  • The zooarchaeology of Iron Age farmers from southern Africa / Shaw Badenhorst
  • Mesolithic hunting and fishing in the coastal and terrestrial environments of the eastern Baltic / Lembi Lõugas
  • Animals in Ancient Egyptian religion : belief, identity, power and economy / Salima Ikram
  • Animals, acculturation and colonisation in Ancient and Islamic North Africa / Michael MacKinnon
  • Historical zooarchaeology of colonialism, mercantilism and indigenous dispossession : the Dutch East India Company's meat industry at the Cape of Good Hope, South Africa / Adam Heinrich
  • Zooarchaeology of the pre-Contact Northwest coast of North America / Gregory G. Monks
  • Fauna and the emergence of intensive agricultural economies in the United States south-west / Rebecca Dean
  • 13,000 years of communal bison hunting in western North America / John D. Speth
  • Tracking the trade in animal pelts in early historic eastern North America / Heather A. Lapham
  • Animal use at early colonies on the south-eastern coast of the United States / Elizabeth Reitz
  • Archaeozoological techniques and protocols for elaborating scenarios of early colonisation and Neolithisation of Cyprus / Jean-Denis Vigne
  • Advances in hunter-gatherer research in Mexico : archaeozoological contributions / Joaquin Arroyo-Cabrales, Eduardo Corona-M.
  • The exploitation of aquatic environments by the Olmec and Epi-Olmec / Tanya M. Peres
  • Zooarchaeology of the Maya / Kitty F. Emery
  • Zooarchaeological approaches to Pre-Columbian archaeology in the neotropics of north-western South America / Peter Stahl
  • Zooarchaeology of Brazilian shell mounds / Daniela Klokler
  • Camelid hunting and herding in Inca times : a view from the South of the empire / Guillermo Luis Mengoni Goñalons
  • Forests, steppes and coastlines : zooarchaeology and the prehistoric exploitation of Patagonian habitats / Luis Alberto Borrero
  • Pleistocene adaptations in tropical rainforest environments in Island Melanesia / Matthew Leavesley
  • Behavioural inferences from Late Pleistocene aboriginal Australia : seasonality, butchery and nutrition in south-west Tasmania / Richard Cosgrove, Jillian Garvey
  • Regional and chronological variations in energy harvests from prehistoric fauna in New Zealand / Ian Smith
  • Spatial variability and human eco-dynamics in central-east Polynesian fisheries / Melinda S. Allen
  • The exploitation of aquatic resources in Holocene West Africa / Veerle Linseele
  • Patterns of animal exploitation in western Turkey : from Palaeolithic molluscs to Byzantine elephants / Canan Çakırlar, Levent Atici
  • Zooarchaeology in the 21st century : where we come from, where we are, and where we are going / Umberto Albarella
  • Zooarchaeological results from Neolithic and Bronze Age wetland and dryland sites in the Central Alpine Foreland : economic, ecologic and taphonomic relevance / Jörg Schibler
  • Zooarchaeology in the Carpathian Basin and adjacent areas / László Bartosiewicz
  • Sheep, sacrifices and symbols : animals in Later Bronze Age Greece / Paul Halstead, Valasia Isaakidou
  • Zooarchaeology of the Scandinavian settlements in Iceland and Greenland : diverging pathways / Thomas H. McGovern, Konrad Smiarowski, George Hambrecht, Seth Brewington, Ramona Harrison, Megan Hicks, Frank J. Feeley, Céline Dupont-Hébert, Brenda Prehal, James Woollett.

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