Themes in old world zooarchaeology : from the Mediterranean to the Atlantic.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Albarella, Umberto.

Contributor:

Detry, Cleia.

Gabriel, Sónia.

Ginja, Catarina.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Animal remains (Archaeology)--Eastern Hemisphere.

Animal remains (Archaeology).

Eastern Hemisphere.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (237 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Havertown : Oxbow Books, Limited, 2021.

Summary:

This new collection of papers from leading experts provides an overview of cutting-edge research in Old World zooarchaeology. The research presented here spans various areas across Europe, Western Asia and North Africa - from the Mediterranean to the Atlantic. Several chapters focus on Iberia, but the eastern Mediterranean and Britain are also featured.Thematically, the book covers many of the research areas where zooarchaeology can provide a significant contribution. These include animal domestication, bone modifications, fishing, fowling, economic and social status, as well as adaptation and improvement. The investigation of these topics is carried out using a diversity of approaches, thus making the book also a useful compendium of traditional as well as more recently developed methodological applications. All contributions aim to present zooarchaeology as a discipline that studies animals to understand people, and their richly diversified past histories. This will be a valuable source of information not just for specialists, but also for general archaeologists and, potentially, also historians, palaeontologists and geographers, who have an interest for the research themes discussed in the book.The book is dedicated to Simon Davis, who has been a genuine pioneer in the development of modern zooarchaeology. It presents hugely stimulating case studies from the core areas where Davis has worked in the course of his career.

Contents:

Cover

Book Title

Copyright

Contents

List of Contributors

Dedication

Methods and theory in the zooarchaeology of the Old World

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

2.Taphonomy of carnivores: understanding archaeologicalsmall prey accumulations:Lluís Lloveras

3. Fish bone studies in Iberia: an overview of 40 years ofresearch from the LAZ-UAM (Madrid): Arturo Morales Muñiz, Laura Llorente Rodríguezand Eufrasia Roselló Izquierdo

4.On the use of micromammals for paleoenvironmentalreconstruction: Qesem Cave as a case study: Orr Comay and Tamar Dayan

5. Traditional sheep and goat husbandry in Cyprus: the effects ofscale and its identification in archaeological assemblages: Angelos Hadjikoumis

Early prehistory

6.Among hyenas: Nery Delgado, Albert Gaudry, EdouardHarlé and the hyenas of Furninha cave (Portugal): João Luís Cardoso

7.Sheepish bones, sheepish dates, sheepish logicand the neolithization of Iberia: João Zilhão

Late prehistory

8.Astragali and their archaeological contexts in the IberianPeninsula. Significance, meanings and historical implications: Ana Margarida Arruda

9.Origins of metallurgy in the southern Levant:microscopic examination of butchering marks on animalbones at Tel Yarmuth, Israel: Haskel J. Greenfield, Annie Brown and Pierre de Miroschedji

10.The food chain at the palace of King Amenhotep IIIat Malqata (Egypt): Salima Ikram

11.Caprine husbandry at the Iron Age settlement ofA Lanzada (Pontevedra, Spain): Marta Moreno-García

Historic times

12.Cattle from the East, cattle from the West: diversity of Bosmorphotypes in the Iberian Peninsula during late prehistoric andRoman times: Ariadna Nieto-Espinet, Angela Trentacoste, Sílvia Guimarães andSilvia Valenzuela-Lamas.

13.Animal remains from 17th-century Carnide, Lisbon, Portugal: Cleia Detry, Ana Beatriz Santos, Tânia Casimiro, Ana Caessa and Nuno Mota

14. The contribution of Islamic culture to the medieval faunisticredefinition of the Iberian Peninsula: Marco Masseti

15. Hovering over hawking in Early medieval Iberia: Laura Llorente Rodríguez, Arturo Morales Muñiz, Leif Jonssonand Evelyne Browaeys

16.Launceston twenty-five years after: the zooarchaeologyof Cornwall: Polydora Baker

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

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ISBN:

9781789255379

1789255376

9781789255355

178925535X

OCLC:

1246624592