Themes in old world zooarchaeology : from the Mediterranean to the Atlantic / edited by Umberto Albarella, Cleia Detry, Sónia Gabriel, Catarina Ginja, Ana Elisabete Pires and João Pedro Tereso.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Albarella, Umberto, editor.

Detry, Cleia, editor.

Gabriel, Sónia, editor.

Ginja, Catarina, editor.

Pires, Ana Elisabete, editor.

ProQuest ebook central.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Animal remains (Archaeology)--Eastern Hemisphere.

Animal remains (Archaeology).

Eastern Hemisphere.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (viii, 226 pages) : illustrations (black and white

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxbow Books, 2021.

System Details:

text file

Contents:

1 From the Mediterranean to the Atlantic: Simon Davis' exceptional contribution to the world of zooarchaeology p. 1 / Umberto Albarella

Methods and theory in the zooarchaeology of the Old World

2 Taphonomy of carnivores: understanding archaeological small prey accumulations p. 13 / Luis Lloveras

3 Fish bone studies in Iberia: an overview of 40 years of research from the LAZ-UAM (Madrid) p. 29 / Arturo Morales Muñiz and Laura Llorente Rodríguez and Eufrasia Roselló Izquierdo

4 On the use of micromammals for paleoenvironmental reconstruction: Qesem Cave as a case study p. 41 / Orr Camay and Tamar Dayan

5 Traditional sheep and goat husbandry in Cyprus: the effects of scale and its identification in archaeological assemblages p. 49 / Angelos Hadjikoumis

Early prehistory

6 Among hyenas: Nery Delgado, Albert Gaudry, Edouard Harlé and the hyenas of Furninha cave (Portugal) p. 61 / João Luís Cardoso

7 Sheepish bones, sheepish dates, sheepish logic and the neolithization of Iberia p. 71 / João Zilhão

Late prehistory

8 Astragali and their archaeological contexts in the Iberian Peninsula. Significance, meanings and historical implications p. 87 / Ana Margarida Arruda

9 Origins of metallurgy in the southern Levant: microscopic examination of butchering marks on animal bones at Tell Yarmuth, Israel p. 95 / Haskel J. Greenfield and Annie Brown and Pierre de Miroschedji

10 The food chain at the palace of King Amenhotep III at Malqata (Egypt) p. 109 / Salima Ikram

11 Caprine husbandry at the Iron Age settlement of A Lanzada (Pontevedra, Spain) p. 117 / Marta Moreno-García

Historic times

12 Cattle from the East, cattle from the West: diversity of Bos morphotypes in the Iberian Peninsula during late prehistoric and Roman times p. 129 / Ariadna Nieto-Espinet and Angela Trentacoste and Silvia Guimarães and Silvia Valenzuela-Lamas

13 Animal remains from 17th-century Carnide, Lisbon, Portugal p. 145 / Cleia Detry and Ana Beatrix Santos and Tânia Casimiro and Ana Caessa and Nuno Mota

14 The contribution of Islamic culture to the medieval faunistic redefinition of the Iberian Peninsula p. 161 / Marco Masseti

15 Hovering over hawking in Early medieval Iberia p. 173 / Laura Llorente Rodríguez and Arturo Morales Muñiz and Leif Jonsson and Evelyne Browaeys

16 Launceston twenty-five years after: the zooarchaeology of Cornwall p. 189 / Polydora Baker

17 Fodder in the city: rye for animals in the 1755 earthquake in Lisbon p. 219 / João Pedro Tereso and Lídia Fernandes.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

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

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ISBN:

9781789255355

178925535X

Publisher Number:

40030538727

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