Cattle and people : interdisciplinary approaches to an ancient relationship / edited by Elizabeth Wright and Catarina Ginja.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Wright, Elizabeth (Archaeologist), editor.

Ginja, Catarina, editor.

JSTOR (Online Service)

George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

Series:

Archaeobiology ; No. 4.

Archaeobiology ; number 4 / series editors, Sarah Whitcher Kansa, Justin Lev-Tov

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human-animal relationships.

Animal remains (Archaeology)--Case studies.

Animal remains (Archaeology).

Cattle--Social aspects.

Cattle.

Cattle--Religious aspects.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxvii, 365 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Columbus, GA : Lockwood Press, 2022.

Contents:

Cover

half title page

Series Page

Title page

LoC data

Table of Contents

List of Figures

LIST OF TABLES

EDITOR BIOGRAPHIES

LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS

PREFACE

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

FOREWORD

INTRODUCTION

Section 1:Prehistoric Human-Cattle Interactions: Aurochs Hunting and Early Husbandry

The Aurochs in the European Pleistocene and Early Holocene

The Cattle of Ludwinowo 7

Origin and Diffusion of Cattle Herding in Northeastern Africa

A Potential Early Cattle-Based Faunal Economy from the Indus Valley Civilization

Section 2: Historical Improvementand Intensification

On the Improvement of Cattle (Bos taurus) in the Cities of Roman Lusitania

Change and Regionalism in British Cattle Husbandry in the Iron Age and Roman Period

Cattle Husbandry in Late- and Postmedieval England

An Archaeogenetics Study of Cattle Bones from Seventeenth Century Carnide, Lisbon, Portugal

Section 3: Symbolic and Ritual Importance

Bison and Aurochs, Emblematic Figures of theUpper Paleolithic in Southwestern Europe

Emerging Inequalities at Animal Farm

Cattle for the Ancestors at Neolithic Çatalhöyük, Turkey

The Bovine Deposits from the Chalcolithic Ditched Enclosure of Camino de las Yeseras (Madrid, Spain)

Section 4: Socio-Political Importance

Ethnoarchaeology of Cattle and Humans among Selected Communities in Manicaland, Eastern Zimbabwe

Cattle and People in China

Cattle, Yaks, Traction, and the Bronze Age Spread of Pastoralism into the Mongolian Steppe

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. New York Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on July 06, 2022).

Local Notes:

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

Other Format:

Print version: Cattle and people

ISBN:

9781948488747

1948488744

Publisher Number:

99991068327

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.