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The Oxford Handbook of Zooarchaeology

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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 of geographical, historical, and cultural contexts.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Frontmatter

List of Figures

List of Tables

Online Supplementary Material

I. INTRODUCTION

1: Umberto Albarella: Zooarchaeology in the 21st century: where we come from, where we are now, and where we are going

II. EUROPE

2: Mietje Germonpré and Mikhail V. Sablin: Humans and mammals in the Upper Palaeolithic of Russia

3: Katherine Boyle: The zooarchaeology of complexity and specialization during the Upper Palaeolithic in Western Europe: changing diversity and evenness

4: Lembi Lõugas: Mesolithic hunting and fishing in the coastal and terrestrial environments of the eastern Baltic

5: Jean-Denis Vigne: Archaeozoological techniques and protocols for elaborating scenarios of early colonization and Neolithization of Cyprus

6: Jörg Schibler: Zooarchaeological results from Neolithic and Bronze Age wetland and dryland sites in the Central Alpine Foreland: economic, ecologic, and taphonomic relevance

7: László Bartosiewicz: Zooarchaeology in the Carpathian Basin and adjacent areas

8: Paul Halstead and Valasia Isaakidou: Sheep, sacrifices, and symbols: animals in Later Bronze Age Greece

9: Jacopo De Grossi Mazzorin and Claudia Minniti: Changes in lifestyle in ancient Rome (Italy) across the Iron Age/Roman transition: the evidence from animal remains

10: Konrad Smiarowski, Ramona Harrison, Seth Brewington, Megan Hicks, Frank J. Feeley, Céline Dupont-Hébert, Brenda Prehal, George Hambrecht, James Woollett, and Thomas H. McGovern: Zooarchaeology of the Scandinavian settlements in Iceland and Greenland: diverging pathways

11: Dale Serjeantson: Fishing, wildfowling, and marine mammal exploitation in northern Scotland from prehistory to Early Modern times

12: Simon J. M. Davis: Zooarchaeological evidence for Moslem improvement of sheep (Ovis aries) in Portugal

13: Finbar McCormick and Emily Murray: The zooarchaeology of Medieval Ireland

14: Terry O'Connor: Animals in urban life in Medieval to Early Modern England

15: Mark Maltby: From bovid to beaver: mammal exploitation in Medieval north-west Russia

III. ASIA

16: Joris Peters, Nadja Pöllath, and Benjamin S. Arbuckle: The emergence of livestock husbandry in Early Neolithic Anatolia

17: Canan Çak rlar and Levent Atici: Patterns of animal exploitation in western Turkey: from Palaeolithic molluscs to Byzantine elephants

18: Ajita K. Patel and Richard H. Meadow: South Asian contributions to animal domestication and pastoralism: bones, genes, and archaeology

19: Li Liu and Xiaolin Ma: The zooarchaeology of Neolithic China

20: Norbert Benecke: Subsistence economy, animal domestication, and herd management in prehistoric central Asia (Neolithic - Iron Age)

21: Hitomi Hongo: Introduction of domestic animals to the Japanese archipelago

22: Charles F. W. Higham: Farming, social change, and state formation in south-east Asia

23: Justin E. Lev-Tov and Sarah Whitcher Kansa: The zooarchaeology of early historic periods in the southern Levant

IV. AFRICA

24: Ina Plug: Middle and Later Stone Age hunters and their prey in southern Africa

25: Diane Gifford-Gonzalez: Pastoralism in sub-Saharan Africa: emergence and ramifications

26: Louis Chaix: Cattle, a major component of the Kerma culture (Sudan)

27: Shaw Badenhorst: The zooarchaeology of Iron Age farmers from southern Africa

28: Veerle Linseele: The exploitation of aquatic resources in Holocene West Africa

29: Salima Ikram: Animals in ancient Egyptian religion: belief, identity, power, and economy

30: Michael MacKinnon: Animals, acculturation, and colonization in ancient and Islamic North Africa

31: Adam R. Heinrich: Historical zooarchaeology of colonialism, mercantilism, and indigenous dispossession: the Dutch East India Company's meat industry at the Cape of Good Hope, South Africa

V. NORTH AMERICA

32: Gregory G. Monks: Zooarchaeology of the pre-Contact Northwest coast of North America

33: Rebecca M. Dean: Fauna and the emergence of intensive agricultural economies in the United States south-west

34: John D. Speth: 13,000 years of communal bison hunting in western North America

35: Joaquín Arroyo-Cabrales and Eduardo Corona-M.: Advances in hunter-gatherer research in Mexico: archaeozoological contributions

36: Tanya M. Peres: The exploitation of aquatic environments by the Olmec and Epi-Olmec

37: Heather A. Lapham: Tracking the trade in animal pelts in early historic eastern North America

38: Elizabeth J. Reitz: Animal use at early colonies on the south-eastern coast of the United States

39: Kitty F. Emery: Zooarchaeology of the Maya

VI. SOUTH AMERICA

40: Peter W. Stahl: Zooarchaeological approaches to Pre-Columbian archaeology in the neotropics of north-western South America

41: Daniela Klokler: Zooarchaeology of Brazilian shell mounds

42: Guillermo L. Mengoni Goñalons: Camelid hunting and herding in Inca times: a view from the South of the empire

43: Luis A. Borrero: Forests, steppes, and coastlines: zooarchaeology and the prehistoric exploitation of Patagonian habitats

VII. OCEANIA

44: Matthew Leavesley: Pleistocene adaptations in tropical rainforest environments in Island Melanesia

45: Richard Cosgrove and Jillian Garvey: Behavioural inferences from Late Pleistocene aboriginal Australia: seasonality, butchery, and nutrition in south-west Tasmania

46: Ian Smith: Regional and chronological variations in energy harvests from prehistoric fauna in New Zealand

47: Melinda S. Allen: Spatial variability and human eco-dynamics in central-east Polynesian fisheries

Endmatter

A Glossary of Zooarchaeological Methods

Notes on Contributors

Index

The Oxford Handbook of Zooarchaeology

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