Animals and people : archaeozoological papers in honour of Ina Plug / edited by Shaw Badenhorst, Peter Mitchell, Jonathan C. Driver.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Plug, Ina.

Badenhorst, S.

Mitchell, Peter, 1962-

Driver, Jonathan C.

Series:

BAR international series ; 1849.

BAR international series ; 1849

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Animal remains (Archaeology)--Africa.

Animal remains (Archaeology).

Plug, Ina.

Excavations (Archaeology).

Africa--Antiquities.

Africa.

Antiquities.

Excavations (Archaeology)--Africa.

Genre:

Festschriften.

Physical Description:

vi, 228 pages : illustrations, maps, portrait ; 30 cm.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Archaeopress, 2008.

Contents:

Ina Plug: a tribute / Shaw Badenhorst

Zooarchaeology in Southern Africa: a view from the north / Terry O'Connor

Archaeozoology at the Transvaal Museum and its future in South Africa / Karin Scott

Models for zooarchaeologists from modern bushmeat studies / Jonathan C. Driver

The contribution of Sibudu fauna to an understanding of Kwazulu-Natal environments at ~60 ka, ~50 ka and ~37 ka / Lyn Wadley, Ina Plug, and Jamie L. Clark

Variability and change in middle Stone Age hunting behaviour: aspects from the lithic and faunal records / Marlize Lombard and Jamie L. Clark

Archaeobiodiversity of ichthyofaunas from the holocene Sahel / Nadja Pöllath, Joris Peters, and Hélène Jousse

Shrews from Ein el Gazzareen, Dakhleh Oasis, western desert, Egypt / C.S. Churcher

Human and animal interaction on the Shire Highlands, Malawi: the evidence from Malowa Rockshelter / Yusuf M. Juwayeyi

Early herders in southern Africa: a synthesis / Andrew B. Smith

The canine connection: dogs and southern African hunter-gatherers / Peter Mitchell

Fishing in the Senegal River during the Iron Age: the evidence from the habitation mounds of Cubalel and Siouré / Wim van Neer

Early Iron Age regional settlement and demographic patterns along the eastern seaboard of South Africa: a view from the lower Thukela River Valley / Haskel J. Greenfield and Leonard O. van Schalkwyk

A consideration of livestock exploitation during the early Iron Age in the Thukela Valley, Kwazulu-Natal / Elizabeth R. Arnold

Social memory and the antiquity of snake and crocodile symbolism in southern Africa / Kent D. Fowler

Symbolic animal burials from the Venda region in the Limpopo Province, South Africa / Louisa Hutten

Zhizo and leopard's kopje: test excavations at Simamwe and Mtanye, Zimbabwe / T.N. Huffman

Subsistence change among farming communities in southern Africa during the last two millennia: a search for potential causes / Shaw Badenhorst.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9781407303369

1407303368

OCLC:

271655512