ISBN:
1948488744
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (xxvii, 365 pages)
,
illustrations
Series Statement:
Archaeobiology number 4 / series editors, Sarah Whitcher Kansa, Justin Lev-Tov
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Cattle and people
Keywords:
Human-animal relationships
;
Animal remains (Archaeology) Case studies
;
Cattle Social aspects
;
Cattle Religious aspects
Description / Table of 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
Description / Table of Contents:
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 �Catalh�oy�uk, Turkey
Description / Table of Contents:
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
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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