The Oxford handbook of zooarchaeology / edited by Umberto Albarella with Mauro Rizzetto, Hannah Russ, Kim Vickers, and Sarah Viner-Daniels
- Published
- Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2017.
- Physical Description
- xxii, 839 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
- Additional Creators
- Albarella, Umberto
- Contents
- Machine generated contents note: 1.Zooarchaeology in the twenty-first century: where we come from, where we are now, and where we are going -- 2.Humans and mammals in the Upper Palaeolithic of Russia / Umberto Albarella -- 3.The zooarchaeology of complexity and specialization during the Upper Palaeolithic in Western Europe: changing diversity and evenness / Mikhail V. Sablin / Mietje Germonpre -- 4.Mesolithic hunting and fishing in the coastal and terrestrial environments of the eastern Baltic / Katherine Boyle -- 5.Archaeozoological techniques and protocols for elaborating scenarios of early colonization and Neolithization of Cyprus / Lembi Lougas -- 6.Zooarchaeological results from Neolithic and Bronze Age wetland and dryland sites in the Central Alpine Foreland: economic, ecologic, and taphonomic relevance / Jean-Denis Vigne -- 7.Zooarchaeology in the Carpathian Basin and adjacent areas / Jorg Schibler -- 8.Sheep, sacrifices, and symbols: animals in Later Bronze Age Greece / Laszlo Bartosiewicz -- 9.Changes in lifestyle in ancient Rome (Italy) across the Iron Age/Roman transition: the evidence from animal remains / Paul Halstead / Valasia Isaakidou -- 10.Zooarchaeology of the Scandinavian settlements in Iceland and Greenland: diverging pathways / Jacopo De Grossi Mazzorin / Claudia Minniti -- 11.Fishing, wildfowling, and marine mammal exploitation in northern Scotland from prehistory to Early Modern times / Konrad Smiarowski / Ramona Harrison / Seth Brewington / Megan Hicks / Frank J. Feeley / Celine Dupont-Hebert / Brenda Prehal / George Hambrecht / James Woollett / Thomas H. McGovern -- 12.Zooarchaeological evidence for Muslim improvement of sheep (Ovis aries) in Portugal / Dale Serjeantson -- 13.The zooarchaeology of Medieval Ireland / Simon J.M. Davis -- 14.Animals in urban life in Medieval to Early Modern England / Finbar McCormick / Emily Murray -- 15.From bovid to beaver: mammal exploitation in Medieval northwest Russia / Terry O'Connor -- 16.The emergence of livestock husbandry in Early Neolithic Anatolia / Mark Maltby -- 17.Patterns of animal exploitation in western Turkey: from Palaeolithic molluscs to Byzantine elephants / Joris Peters / Nadja Pollath / Benjamin S. Arbuckle -- 18.South Asian contributions to animal domestication and pastoralism: bones, genes, and archaeology / Canan Cakirlar / Levent Atici -- 19.The zooarchaeology of Neolithic China / Ajita K. Patel / Richard H. Meadow -- 20.Subsistence economy, animal domestication, and herd management in prehistoric central Asia (Neolithic-Iron Age) / Li Liu / Xiaolin Ma -- 21.Introduction of domestic animals to the Japanese archipelago / Norbert Benecke -- 22.Farming, social change, and state formation in Southeast Asia / Hitomi Hongo -- 23.The zooarchaeology of early historic periods in the southern Levant / Charles F.W. Higham -- 24.Middle and Later Stone Age hunters and their prey in southern Africa / Justin E. Lev-Tov / Sarah Whitcher Kansa -- 25.Pastoralism in sub-Saharan Africa: emergence and ramifications / Ina Plug -- 26.Cattle, a major component of the Kerma culture (Sudan) / Diane Gifford-Gonzalez -- 27.The zooarchaeology of Iron Age farmers from southern Africa / Louis Chaix -- 28.The exploitation of aquatic resources in Holocene West Africa / Shaw Badenhorst -- 29.Animals in ancient Egyptian religion: belief, identity, power, and economy / Veerle Linseele -- 30.Animals, acculturation, and colonization in ancient and Islamic North Africa / Salima Ikram -- 31.Historical zooarchaeology of colonialism, mercantilism, and indigenous dispossession: the Dutch East India Company's meat industry at the Cape of Good Hope, South Africa / Michael MacKinnon -- 32.Zooarchaeology of the pre-Contact Northwest coast of North America / Adam R. Heinrich -- 33.Fauna and the emergence of intensive agricultural economies in the United States Southwest / Gregory G. Monks -- 34.13,000 years of communal bison hunting in western North America / Rebecca M. Dean -- 35.Advances in hunter-gatherer research in Mexico: archaeozoological contributions / John D. Speth -- 36.The exploitation of aquatic environments by the Olmec and Epi-Olmec / Joaquin Arroyo-Cabrales / Eduardo Corona-M -- 37.Tracking the trade in animal pelts in early historic eastern North America / Tanya M. Peres -- 38.Animal use at early colonies on the southeastern coast of the United States / Heather A. Lapham -- 39.Zooarchaeology of the Maya / Elizabeth J. Reitz -- 40.Zooarchaeological approaches to Pre-Columbian archaeology in the neotropics of northwestern South America / Kitty F. Emery -- 41.Zooarchaeology of Brazilian shell-mounds / Peter W. Stahl -- 42.Camelid hunting and herding in Inca times: a view from the South of the empire / Daniela Klokler -- 43.Forests, steppes, and coastlines: zooarchaeology and the prehistoric exploitation of Patagonian habitats / Guillermo L. Mengoni Gonalons -- 44.Themes in the zooarchaeology of Pleistocene Melanesia / Luis A. Borrero -- 45.Behavioural inferences from Late Pleistocene Aboriginal Australia: seasonality, butchery, and nutrition in southwest Tasmania / Matthew Leavesley -- 46.Regional and chronological variations in energy harvests from prehistoric fauna in New Zealand / Richard Cosgrove / Jillian Garvey -- 47.Spatial variability and human eco-dynamics in central East Polynesian fisheries / Ian W.G. Smith -- A.Glossary of Zooarchaeological Methods / Melinda S. Allen.
- Summary
- Animals have played a fundamental role in shaping human history, and the study of their remains from archaeological sites - zooarchaeology - has gradually been emerging as a powerful discipline and crucible for forging an understanding of our past. The Oxford Handbook of Zooarchaeology offers a cutting-edge compendium of zooarchaeology the world over that transcends environmental, economic, and social approaches, seeking instead to provide a holistic view of the roles played by animals in past human cultures. Incisive chapters written by leading scholars in the field incorporate case studies from across five continents, from Iceland to New Zealand and from Japan to Egypt and Ecuador, providing a sense of the dynamism of the discipline, the many approaches and methods adopted by different schools and traditions, and an idea of the huge range of interactions that have occurred between people and animals throughout the world and its history. Adaptations of human-animal relationships in environments as varied as the Arctic, temperate forests, deserts, the tropics, and the sea are discussed, while studies of hunter-gatherers, farmers, herders, fishermen, and even traders and urban dwellers highlight the importance that animals have had in all forms of human societies. With an introduction that clearly contextualizes the current practice of zooarchaeology in relation to both its history and the challenges and opportunities that can be expected for the future, and a methodological glossary illuminating the way in which zooarchaeologists approach the study of their material, this Handbook will be invaluable not only for specialists in the field, but for anybody who has an interest in our past and the role that animals have played in forging it.
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- ISBN
- 0199686475
9780199686476
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