Economic zooarchaeology : studies in hunting, herding and early agriculture / edited by Peter Rowley-Conwy, Dale Serjeantson and Paul Halstead.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Rowley-Conwy, Peter, editor.

Serjeantson, D. (Dale), editor.

Halstead, Paul, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Animal remains (Archaeology).

Economics, Prehistoric.

Physical Description:

xvi, 298 pages ; 29 cm

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; Havertown, PA : Oxbow Books, 2017.

Contents:

Introduction / Peter Rowley-Conwy, Dale Serjeantson and Paul Halstead

Tony Legge - a bibliography

Part I: Bone man : the career and influence of Tony Legge. 1. Tony Legge (1939-2013) / Robin Dennell ; 2. Tony Legge and continuing education in archaeology at the University of London 1974-2004 / Harvey Sheldon ; 3. 'The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea...' : Tony Legge and the origins and spread of animal husbandry / Andrew M.T. Moore ; 4. Reflections in a dustbin : froth flotation and the origins of rice cultivation in Southeast Asia / Charles Higham ; 5. How the pig parts got from Warrago to Web / James F. O'Connell ; 6. Tony Legge and the Blick Mead Project / David Jacques

Part II: Zooarchaeological method and theory. 7. Bone measurements and body weights from some Australian feral pigs / A.J. Legge ; 8. A morphometric investigation of late Pleistocene and Holocene humeri of aoudad (Barbary sheep: Ammotragus lervia, Pallas 1777) recovered from the Haua Fteah, Cyrenaica, Libya / A.J. Legge and C.M. Stimpson ; 9. Towards a metrical distinction between sheep and goat astragali / Simon J.M. Davis ; 10. Down among the dead men : wrong end epidemiology and its implications for palaeopathology / Tony Waldron ; 11. A typology of dog deposition in archaeological contexts / Angela Perri ; 12. The boundaries of the world : the archaeology of humans and animals in southern South America / A. Sebastián Muñoz and Mariana Mondini ; 13. Zooarchaeology in Britain : a partial history / Dale Serjeantson

Part III: The zooarchaeology of milking controversy. 14. Calf mortality and milking : was Tony Legge right after all? / Paul Halstead and Valasia Isaakidou ; 15. Age-at-death in traditional Cypriot sheep and goat husbandry : implications for zooarchaeology / Angelos Hadjikoumis ; 16. A calf's eye view of milk production : Tony Legge's contribution to dairy husbandry studies / Rosalind E. Gillis ; 17. Rethinking dairying in the Irish Iron Age : evidence from Dún Ailinne / Pam J. Crabtree ; 18. Answering zooarchaeological questions from the analysis of animal bones and organic pottery residues : a critical comparison / Alan K. Outram ; 19. Salt, cows, milk, and the earliest farmers of Central Europe / Peter Bogucki

Part IV: Farmers that hunt. 20. Hunting by farmers : ecological implications / Jonathan C. Driver and Shaw Badenhorst ; 21. Evaluating seasonality of birth in gazelles in the Middle Euphrates Valley : confirming ethological assumptions in the Abu Hureyra model / Carlos Tornero, Marie Balasse, Joël Ughetto-Monfrin, Miquel Molist and Maria Saña ; 22. Hunting and herding in the Middle Neolithic of central Serbia : a zooarchaeological analysis of Stragari-Šljivik, Serbia / Haskel J. Greenfield

Part V: Prehistoric Britain. 23. To the Upper Lake : Star Carr revisited - by birchbark canoe / Peter Rowley-Conwy ; 24. The first farmers in Britain and Ireland - whence and whither and how? : some reflections / Roger Mercer ; 25. Integration of cereal cultivation and animal husbandry in the British Neolithic : the evidence of charred plant remains from timber buildings at Lismore Fields / Glynis Jones and Amy Bogaard ; 26. Taphonomy and cultural selection : Tony Legge and the Neolithic pits beside the Dorset Cursus / Richard Bradley ; 27. Humans and animals in Mesolithic, Neolithic and Bronze Age Dorset / Mark Maltby ; 28. Reconsideration of the 'Mesolithic harpoon' from Westward Ho!, Devon / Sonia O'Connor and Terry O'Connor

Part VI: Continental Europe and the Mediterranean. 29. Revisiting the animal remains from Neolithic Kalavasos Tenta, Cyprus / Paul Croft ; 30. Neolithic subsistence at Vela Špilja on the island of Lošinj, Croatia / Suzanne E. Pilaar Birch ; 31. Using faunal remains to evaluate social stratification in the Middle Iron Age : the fortified village of Mas Castellar de Pontós, northeast Iberian Peninsula / Lídia Colominas ; 32. The economy of medieval and post-medieval Vyborg, Russia, in its historical context / Alexei Kasparov ; 33. Dear, oh deer! : the adventures of compiling comparative collections : a cervid skeleton allegedly from Egypt's Eastern Desert / Salima Ikram and Louise Bertini.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Other Format:

Online version: Economic zooarchaeology.

ISBN:

9781785704451

1785704451

OCLC:

982465259