Deer and people / edited by Karis Baker, Ruth Carden and Richard Madgwick.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Baker, Karis, editor.

Carden, Ruth, editor.

Madgwick, Richard, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Deer--Effect of human beings on--History.

Deer.

Deer--Effect of hunting on--History.

Animals and civilization.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (297 p.)

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Windgather Press, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Deer have been central to human cultures throughout time and space: whether as staples to hunter-gatherers, icons of Empire, or the focus of sport. Their social and economic importance has seen some species transported across continents, transforming landscape as they went with the establishment of menageries and park. The fortunes of other species have been less auspicious, some becoming extirpated, or being in threat of extinction, due to pressures of over-hunting and/or human-instigated environmental change. In spite of their diverse, deep-rooted and long standing relations with human socie

Contents:

Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Preface; Contributors; Deer Dispersal and Interactionswith Humans; Chapter 1: Genetic Analyses of Naturaland Anthropogenic Movements in Deer Allan D. McDevitt and Frank E. Zachos; Chapter 2: Historic Zoology of the European Fallow Deer, Dama dama dama: Evidence from biogeography, archaeology and genetics Marco Masseti and Cristiano Vernesi; Chapter 3: Human-Deer Interactions in Sardinia Gabriele Carenti, Elisabetta Grassi, Stefano Masala and Barbara Wilkens

Chapter 7: The Italian Neolithic Red Deer: Molino Casarotto Katherine BoyleChapter 8: Evidence for the Variable Exploitation of Cervids at the Early Bronze Age Site of Kaposújlak-Várdomb(South Transdanubia, Hungary) Erika Gál; Chapter 9: Red Deer Hunting and Exploitation in the Early Neolithic Settlement of Rottenburg-Fröbelweg, South Germany Elisabeth Stephan; Chapter 10: Red Deer Antlers in Neolithic Britain and their Use in the Construction of Monuments Fay Worley and Dale Serjeantson

Zooarchaeological Analyses from the Roman and Medieval UKChapter 14: Chasing Sylvia's Stag: Placing Deer in the Countryside of Roman Britain Martyn G. Allen; Chapter 15: Deer and Humans in South Wales during the Roman and Medieval Periods Mark Maltby and Ellen Hambleton; Chapter 16: Making a Fast Buck in the Middle Ages: Evidence for poaching from Medieval Wakefield Matilda Holmes; Chapter 17: 'Playing the stag' in Medieval Middlesex? A perforated antler from South Mimms Castle - parallels and possibilities John Clark; Landscapes

Chapter 18: Forest Law in the Landscape: Not the clearing of the woods, but the running of the deer? John Langton

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed April 9, 2015).

ISBN:

9781909686557

1909686557

9781909686571

1909686573