Shuffling Nags, Lame Ducks : The Archaeology of Animal Disease

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bartosiewicz, L.

Contributor:

Gál, Erika.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Animal remains (Archaeology)--Diseases.

Animal remains (Archaeology).

Animals.

Death.

Eukaryota.

Anthropology, Cultural.

Disease.

Pathologic Processes.

Anthropology.

Pathological Conditions, Signs and Symptoms.

Social Sciences.

Animal Diseases.

Archaeology.

Cadaver.

Medical Subjects:

Death.

Eukaryota.

Anthropology, Cultural.

Disease.

Pathologic Processes.

Anthropology.

Pathological Conditions, Signs and Symptoms.

Social Sciences.

Animal Diseases.

Archaeology.

Cadaver.

Animals.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (601 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Havertown : Oxbow Books, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The analysis of animal bone assemblages from archaeological sites provides much valuable data concerning economic and husbandry practices in the past, as well as insights into cultural and symbolic or ritual activity. Animal palaeopathology can identify diseases in archaeozoological assemblages but little interest has been expressed in investigating and understanding the cultural aspects of the diseases identified. Such assemblages represent the cumulative effects of human attitudes, decisions and influences regarding the keeping, care, treatment, neglect and exploitation of animals which resu

Contents:

Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments and photo credits; Chapter 1: Foreword; Chapter 2: Introduction; Chapter 3: Basic concepts; Chapter 4: History of studying pathological animal remains; Chapter 5: Differences between human and animal palaeopathology; 5.1 Divergent research traditions; 5.2 Differences in objectives; 5.3 Differences between selection pressures on human and animal populations; 5.4 Specifics of skeletal morphology and function; 5.5 Differences in archaeological deposition; 5.6 Fragmentation, fossil diagenesis and bone preservation; 5.7 Pseudopathologies

Chapter 6: Methodology6.1 Reference collections and sampling; 6.2 Review of the literature; 6.3 Classification of pathological phenomena in archaeozoology; 6.4 Techniques; Chapter 7: Growth, development and aging; 7.1 Age, animal exploitation and morbidity; 7.2 Age, bone preservation and diagnosis; Chapter 8: Traumatic lesions; 8.1 Bone fractures; 8.2 Skeletal trauma and conflict; Chapter 9: Inflammatory diseases and bone; 9.1 Non-specific infection; 9.2 General infection; 9.3 Bone specific infection; Chapter 10: Arthropathies; 10.1 Main types of articulations

10.2 Osteological symptoms of joint disease10.3 The anatomical distribution of arthropathies; Chapter 11: Pathological lesions in working animals; 11.1 Symptoms in the axial skeleton; 11.2 Symptoms in the appendicular skeleton; 11.3 Mapping the anatomical distribution of pathological lesions in cattle; Chapter 12: Diseases connected to the environment; 12.1 Nutrition; 12.2 Bone deformations caused by parasites; 12.3. Environmental stress and incremental structures; Chapter 13: Dental anomalies and oral pathology; 13.1 Caries; 13.2 Irregularities of tooth wear; 13.3 Parodontal disease

Chapter 14: Inherited disorders14.1 The skull; 14.2. Postcranial anomalies; Chapter 15: Neoplastic and tumorous bones; 15.1 Benign and malignant tumours; 15.2 The aetiology of tumours; Chapter 16: Pathological changes in bird bones (Erica Gál); 16.1 Fractures; 16.2 Trauma resulting in the thickening of bone; 16.3 Intraspecific conflict; 16.4 Amputation; 16.5 Infections; 16.6 Osteopetrosis; 16.7 Rickets; 16.8 Spondylolisthesis; 16.9 Bone necrosis; 16.10 Arthropathy; 16.11 Inherited disorders; 16.12 Discussion; Chapter 17: Pathological lesions in fish remains; Chapter 18: Concluding remarks

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ISBN:

9781782971962

1782971963

9781782971948

1782971947

OCLC:

884014536