Multispecies archaeology / edited by Suzanne E. Pilaar Birch.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Pilaar Birch, Suzanne E., editor, author.

ProQuest ebook central.

George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

Series:

Archaeological orientations

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Environmental archaeology--Research.

Environmental archaeology.

Social archaeology--Research.

Social archaeology.

Human ecology--History--To 1500.

Human ecology.

Nature--Effect of human beings on--History--To 1500.

Nature.

Paleoecology--Research.

Paleoecology.

Animal remains (Archaeology).

Plant remains (Archaeology).

Geology, Stratigraphic--Anthropocene.

Geology, Stratigraphic.

Nature--Effect of human beings on.

History.

Research.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 376 pages).

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2018.

System Details:

text file

Contents:

Part I. Living in the Anthropocene

Calabrian hounds and roasted ivory (or, swerving from anthropocentrism) / Noah Heringman

The end of the Neolithic? At the emergence of the Anthropocene / Christopher Witmore

Rehearsing the Anthropocene in microcosm: the palaeoenvironmental impacts of the Pacific rat (Rattus Exulans) and other non-human species during island neolithization / Thomas P. Leppard

Trans-holocene human impacts on California mussels (Mytilus Californianus): historical ecological management implications from the northern Channel Islands / Breana Campbell, Todd J. Braje, and Stephen G. Whitaker

Drift / Þóra Pétursdóttir

Part II. Multispecies ecology of the built environment

Symbiotic architectures / Gavin Lucas

The eco-ecumene and multispecies history: the case of abandoned protestant cemeteries in Poland / Ewa Domanska

Ecologies of rock and art in northern New Mexico / Benjamin Alberti and Severin Fowles

Oysters and mound-islands of crystal river along the central gulf coast of Florida / Victor D. Thompson and Thomas J. Pluckhahn

Multi-species dynamics and the ecology of urban spaces in Roman antiquity / Michael MacKinnon

Mammalian community assembly in ancient villages and towns in the Jordan Valley of Israel / Nimrod Marom and Lior Weissbrod

Part III. Agrarian commitments: towards an archaeology of symbiosis

Animals and the Neolithic: cui bono? / Terry O'Connor

Making space from the position of duty of care: early Bronze Age human-sheep entanglements in Norway / Kristin Armstrong Oma

The history of the human microbiome: insights from archaeology and ancient DNA / Laura S. Weyrich

An archaeological telling of multispecies co-inhabitation: comments on the origins of agriculture and domestication narrative in southwest Asia / Brian Boyd

Part IV. The ecology of movement

Legs, feet and hooves: the seasonal roundup in Iceland / Oscar Aldred

The rhythm of life: exploring the role of daily and seasonal rhythms in the development of human-nonhuman relationships in the British early Mesolithic / Nick J. Overton

Seasonal mobility and multispecies interactions in the Mesolithic northeastern Adriatic / Suzanne E. Pilaar Birch

The role of ostrich in shaping the landscape use patterns of humans and hyenas on the southern coast of South Africa during the late Pleistocene / Jamie Hodgkins, Petrus le Roux, Curtis W. Marean, Kirsty Penkman, Molly Crisp, Erich Fisher, and Julia Lee-Thorp

Prey species movements and migrations in ecocultural landscapes: reconstructing late Pleistocene herbivore seasonal spatial behaviors / Kate Britton.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on February 23, 2018).

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

Other Format:

Print version: Multispecies archaeology

ISBN:

9781317480648

1317480643

Publisher Number:

99975783620

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Restricted for use by site license.