Colonisation, migration, and marginal areas : a zooarchaeological approach / edited by Mariana Mondini, Sebastián Munõz and Stephen Wickler.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

International Council for Archaeozoology. Conference (9th : 2002 : Durham, England)

Contributor:

Mondini, Mariana.

Muñoz, Sebastián

Wickler, Stephen

John G. Hartman Memorial Library Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social archaeology.

Prehistoric peoples.

Human beings--Migrations.

Human beings.

Physical Description:

viii, 120 pages : illustrations, maps ; 31 cm

Other Title:

Colonization, migration, and marginal areas

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxbow ; Oakville, CT : David Brown, [2004]

Contents:

Part I. Human and Animal Migration and Colonisation

1. Introduction to the Session: Human and Animal Migration and Colonisation / Stephen Wickler 2

2. Understanding Human Movement and Interaction through the Movement of Animals and Animal Products / Steven P. Ashby 4

3. Plea for a Multidisciplinary Approach to the Study of Neolithic Migrations: the Analysis of Biological Witnesses and the Input of Palaeogenetics / Eva-Maria Geigl, Melanie Pruvost 10

4. Zooarchaeology and Agricultural Colonization: an Example from the Colonial Chesapeake / Benjamin S. Arbuckle, Joanne Bowen 20

5. Modelling Colonisation and Migration in Micronesia from a Zooarchaeological Perspective / Stephen Wickler 28

Part II. Behavioural Variability in the So-Called Marginal Areas: a Zooarchaeological Approach

6. Behavioural Variability in the So-Called Marginal Areas from a Zooarchaeological Perspective: an Introduction / Mariana Mondini, Sebastian Munoz 42

7. Faunal Exploitation Patterns along the Southern Slopes of the Caucasus during the Late Middle and Early Upper Palaeolithic / Guy Bar-Oz, Daniel S. Adler, Abesalom Vekua, Tengiz Meshveliani, Nicholoz Tushabramishvili, Anna Belfer-Cohen, Ofer Bar-Yosef 46

8. The Archaeozoology of the Andean 'Dead Ends' in Patagonia: Living near the Continental Ice Cap / Luis Alberto Borrero 55

9. The Highs and Lows of High Arctic Mammals: Temporal Change and Regional Variability in Paleoeskimo Subsistence / Christyann M. Darwent 62

10. Identifying Dietary Stress in Marginal Environments: Bone Fats, Optimal Foraging Theory and the Seasonal Round / Alan K. Outram 74

11. The Worst of Times, the Best of Times: Jackrabbit Hunting by Middle Holocene Human Foragers in the Bonneville Basin of Western North America / Dave N. Schmitt, David B. Madsen, Karen D. Lupo 86

12. A Zooarchaeological Perspective on the Origins of Vertical Transhumant Pastoralism and the Colonization of Marginal Habitats in Temperate Southeastern Europe / Elizabeth R. Arnold, Haskel J. Greenfield 96

13. A Review of the Session: Margins and Marginality / Anthony J. Legge 118.

Notes:

"Proceedings of the 9th Conference of the International Council of Archaeozoology, Durham, August 2002."

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the John G. Hartman Memorial Library Fund.

ISBN:

1842171143

OCLC:

53068319