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Animals have played a fundamental role in shaping human history, and the study of their remains from archaeological sites--zooarchaeology--has gradually been emerging as a powerful discipline and crucible for forging an understanding of our past.
The Oxford Handbook of Zooarchaeology offers a cutting-edge compendium of zooarchaeology the world over that transcends environmental, economic, and social approaches, seeking instead to provide a holistic view of the roles played by animals in past human cultures.
Incisive chapters written by leading scholars in the field incorporate case studies from across five continents, from Iceland to New Zealand and from Japan to Egypt and Ecuador, providing a sense of the dynamism of the discipline, the many approaches and methods adopted by different schools and traditions, and an idea of the huge range of interactions that have occurred between people and animals throughout the world and its history. Adaptations of human-animal relationships in environments as varied as the Arctic, temperate forests, deserts, the tropics, and the sea are discussed, while studies of hunter-gatherers, farmers, herders, fishermen, and even traders and urban dwellers highlight the importance that animals have had in all forms of human societies. With an introduction that clearly contextualizes the current practice of zooarchaeology in relation to both its history and the challenges and opportunities that can be expected for the future, and a methodological glossary illuminating the way in which zooarchaeologists approach the study of their material, this Handbook will be invaluable not only for specialists in the field, but for anybody who has an interest in our past and the role that animals have played in forging it.
Contents
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Note on Online Supplementary Material
I. INTRODUCTION
1: Umberto Albarella: Zooarchaeology in the twenty-first century: where we come from, where we are now, and where we are going
II. EUROPE
2: Mietje Germonpré and Mikhail V. Sablin: Humans and mammals in the Upper Palaeolithic of Russia
3: Katherine Boyle: The zooarchaeology of complexity and specialization during the Upper Palaeolithic in Western Europe: changing diversity and evenness
4: Lembi Lõugas: Mesolithic hunting and fishing in the coastal and terrestrial environments of the eastern Baltic
5: Jean-Denis Vigne: Archaeozoological techniques and protocols for elaborating scenarios of early colonization and Neolithization of Cyprus
6: Jörg Schibler: Zooarchaeological results from Neolithic and Bronze Age wetland and dryland sites in the Central Alpine Foreland: economic, ecologic, and taphonomic relevance
7: László Bartosiewicz: Zooarchaeology in the Carpathian Basin and adjacent areas
8: Paul Halstead and Valasia Isaakidou: Sheep, sacrifices, and symbols: animals in Later Bronze Age Greece
9: Jacopo De Grossi Mazzorin and Claudia Minniti: Changes in lifestyle in ancient Rome (Italy) across the Iron Age/Roman transition: the evidence from animal remains
10: Konrad Smiarowski, Ramona Harrison, Seth Brewington, Megan Hicks, Frank J. Feeley, Céline Dupont-Hébert, Brenda Prehal, George Hambrecht, James Woollett, and Thomas H. McGovern: Zooarchaeology of the Scandinavian settlements in Iceland and Greenland: diverging pathways
11: Dale Serjeantson: Fishing, wildfowling, and marine mammal exploitation in northern Scotland from prehistory to Early Modern times
12: Simon J. M. Davis: Zooarchaeological evidence for Muslim improvement of sheep (Ovis aries) in Portugal
13: Finbar McCormick and Emily Murray: The zooarchaeology of Medieval Ireland
14: Terry O'Connor: Animals in urban life in Medieval to Early Modern England
15: Mark Maltby: From bovid to beaver: mammal exploitation in Medieval northwest Russia
III. ASIA
16: Joris Peters, Nadja Pöllath, and Benjamin S. Arbuckle: The emergence of livestock husbandry in Early Neolithic Anatolia
17: Canan Çak)irlar and Levent Atici: Patterns of animal exploitation in western Turkey: from Palaeolithic molluscs to Byzantine elephants
18: Ajita K. Patel and Richard H. Meadow: South Asian contributions to animal domestication and pastoralism: bones, genes, and archaeology
19: Li Liu and Xiaolin Ma: The zooarchaeology of Neolithic China
20: Norbert Benecke: Subsistence economy, animal domestication, and herd management in prehistoric central Asia (Neolithic - Iron Age)
21: Hitomi Hongo: Introduction of domestic animals to the Japanese archipelago
22: Charles F. W. Higham: Farming, social change, and state formation in south-east Asia
23: Justin E. Lev-Tov and Sarah Whitcher Kansa: The zooarchaeology of early historic periods in the southern Levant
IV. AFRICA
24: Ina Plug: Middle and Later Stone Age hunters and their prey in southern Africa
25: Diane Gifford-Gonzalez: Pastoralism in sub-Saharan Africa: emergence and ramifications
26: Louis Chaix: Cattle, a major component of the Kerma culture (Sudan)
27: Shaw Badenhorst: The zooarchaeology of Iron Age farmers from southern Africa
28: Veerle Linseele: The exploitation of aquatic resources in Holocene West Africa
29: Salima Ikram: Animals in ancient Egyptian religion: belief, identity, power, and economy
30: Michael MacKinnon: Animals, acculturation, and colonization in ancient and Islamic North Africa
31: Adam R. Heinrich: Historical zooarchaeology of colonialism, mercantilism, and indigenous dispossession: the Dutch East India Company's meat industry at the Cape of Good Hope, South Africa
V. NORTH AMERICA
32: Gregory G. Monks: Zooarchaeology of the pre-Contact Northwest coast of North America
33: Rebecca M. Dean: Fauna and the emergence of intensive agricultural economies in the United States Southwest
34: John D. Speth: 13,000 years of communal bison hunting in western North America
35: Joaquín Arroyo-Cabrales and Eduardo Corona-M.: Advances in hunter-gatherer research in Mexico: archaeozoological contributions
36: Tanya M. Peres: The exploitation of aquatic environments by the Olmec and Epi-Olmec
37: Heather A. Lapham: Tracking the trade in animal pelts in early historic eastern North America
38: Elizabeth J. Reitz: Animal use at early colonies on the south-eastern coast of the United States
39: Kitty F. Emery: Zooarchaeology of the Maya
VI. SOUTH AMERICA
40: Peter W. Stahl: Zooarchaeological approaches to Pre-Columbian archaeology in the neotropics of northwestern South America
41: Daniela Klokler: Zooarchaeology of Brazilian shell mounds
42: Guillermo L. Mengoni Goñalons: Camelid hunting and herding in Inca times: a view from the South of the empire
43: Luis A. Borrero: Forests, steppes, and coastlines: zooarchaeology and the prehistoric exploitation of Patagonian habitats
VII. OCEANIA
44: Matthew Leavesley: Themes in the Zooarchaeology of Pleistocene Melanesia
45: Richard Cosgrove and Jillian Garvey: Behavioural inferences from Late Pleistocene aboriginal Australia: seasonality, butchery, and nutrition in southwest Tasmania
46: Ian Smith: Regional and chronological variations in energy harvests from prehistoric fauna in New Zealand
47: Melinda S. Allen: Spatial variability and human eco-dynamics in central-east Polynesian fisheries
Mauro Rizzetto and Umberto Albarella: A Glossary of Zooarchaeological Methods
Notes on Contributors
Index
