The Archaeology Of Animals

Author : Simon J. M. Davis
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2012-11-12
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781135106591

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The Archaeology of Animals by Simon J. M. Davis Pdf

Ever since the discovery of fossil remains of extinct animals associated with flint implements, bones and other animal remains have been providing invaluable information to the archaeologist. In the last 20 years many archaeologists and zoologists have taken to studying such "archaeofaunal" remains, and the science of "zoo-archaeology" has come into being. What was the nature of the environment in which our ancestors lived? In which season were sites occupied? When did our earliest ancestors start to hunt big game, and how efficient were they as hunters? Were early humans responsible for the extinction of so many species of large mammals 10-20,000 years ago? When, where and why were certain animals first domesticated? When did milking and horse-riding begin? Did the Romans influence our eating habits? What were sanitary conditions like in medieval England? And could the terrible pestilence which afflicted the English in the seventh century AD have been plague? These are some of the questions dealt with in this book. The book also describes the nature and development of bones and teeth, and some of the methods used in zoo-archaeology.

Author : Kitty F. Emery,Christopher M. Gotz
Publisher : Lockwood Press
Page : 809 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2013-11-15
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781937040154

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The Archaeology of Mesoamerican Animals by Kitty F. Emery,Christopher M. Gotz Pdf

Recognition of the role of animals in ancient diet, economy, politics, and ritual is vital to understanding ancient cultures fully, while following the clues available from animal remains in reconstructing environments is vital to understanding the ancient relationship between humans and the world around them. In response to the growing interest in the field of zooarchaeology, this volume presents current research from across the many cultures and regions of Mesoamerica, dealing specifically with the most current issues in zooarchaeological literature. Geographically, the essays collected here index the different aspects of animal use by the indigenous populations of the entire area between the northern borders of Mexico and the southern borders of lower Central America. This includes such diverse cultures as the north Mexican hunter-gatherers, the Olmec, Maya, Mixtec, Zapotec, and Central American Indians. The time frame of the volume extends from the earliest human occupation, the Preclassic, Classic, Postclassic, and Colonial manifestations, to recent times. The book's chapters, written by experts in the field of Mesoamerican zooarchaeology, provide important general background on the domestic and ritual use of animals in early and classic Mesoamerica and Central America, but deal also with special aspects of human-animal relationships such as early domestication and symbolism of animals, and important yet otherwise poorly represented aspects of taphonomy and zooarchaeological methodology. Spanish-language version also available (ISBN 978-1-937040-12-3).

Author : Melanie Fillios,Natalie Blake
Publisher : Sydney University Press
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2015-12-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781743324332

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Animal bones in Australian archaeology by Melanie Fillios,Natalie Blake Pdf

Zooarchaeology has emerged as a powerful way of reconstructing the lives of past societies. Through the analysis of animal bones found on a site, zooarchaeologists can uncover important information on the economy, trade, industry, diet, and other fascinating facts about the people who lived there. Animal bones in Australian archaeology is an introductory bone identification manual written for archaeologists working in Australia. This field guide includes 16 species commonly encountered in both Indigenous and historical sites. Using diagrams and flow charts, it walks the reader step-by-step through the bone identification process. Combining practical and academic knowledge, the manual also provides an introductory insight into zooarchaeological methodology and the importance of zooarchaeological research in understanding human behaviour through time.

Author : Anna-Kaisa Salmi,Sirpa Niinimäki
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2021-06-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783030687441

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Archaeologies of Animal Movement. Animals on the Move by Anna-Kaisa Salmi,Sirpa Niinimäki Pdf

This book presents the state-of-the art in the analysis of animal movements in the past and its implications for human societies. It also addresses the importance of animal activity and mobility for understanding past human societies and past human-animal relationships through cases studies from different periods and areas. It is the first book to focus on the archaeology of animal movement on different scales – from fine-tuned muscle movements of working animals to feeding behavior and to long-distance movements across landscapes and regions. With the recent development of fine-tuned methodologies such as stable isotope analysis and physical activity assessment, the potential to understand how animals moved about in the past has increased substantially. While the chapters in the volume utilize a wide range of archaeological methods, they are all united by an emphasis on understanding animal activity and mobility patterns as something that has a major impact on human societies and human-animal relationships. Chapters in this volume show that animal activity patterns provide information on multiple aspects of human-animal relationships, including analysis of animal management practices, transhumance, global and regional trade networks, and animal domestication. This volume is of interest to scholars working in zooarchaeology and early human societies.

Author : Terence Patrick O'Connor,Terry O'Connor (Archaeologist)
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Nature
ISBN : 1603440844

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The Archaeology of Animal Bones by Terence Patrick O'Connor,Terry O'Connor (Archaeologist) Pdf

The author provides a focused overview of the field, emphasizing how bones are used to study past human-animal interactions.

Author : Tim Ingold
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2016-04-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781134948246

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What is an Animal? by Tim Ingold Pdf

This book offers a unique interdisciplinary challenge to assumptions about animals and animality deeply embedded in our own ways of thought, and at the same time exposes highly sensitive and largely unexplored aspects of the understanding of our common humanity.

Author : Terry O'Connor
Publisher : The History Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2004-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780752495224

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The Archaeology of Animal Bones by Terry O'Connor Pdf

Animal bones are one of the most abundant types of evidence found in archaeological sites dating from pre-historic times to the Middle Ages, and they can reveal a startling amount about the economy and way of life of people in the past. This is a fascinating introduction for anyone seeking to understand how these bones can shed light on our knowledge of the past, as well as the complex relationship between human and animals. Written by one of the most respected experts in this field, and published for the first time in paperback, this book will be essential reading for archaeologists, or indeed anyone intrigued by the recreation of long lost worlds from the most insignificant-seeming fragments of animal bones.

Author : Nerissa Russell
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 561 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2011-11-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781139504348

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Social Zooarchaeology by Nerissa Russell Pdf

This is the first book to provide a systematic overview of social zooarchaeology, which takes a holistic view of human-animal relations in the past. Until recently, archaeological analysis of faunal evidence has primarily focused on the role of animals in the human diet and subsistence economy. This book, however, argues that animals have always played many more roles in human societies: as wealth, companions, spirit helpers, sacrificial victims, totems, centerpieces of feasts, objects of taboos, and more. These social factors are as significant as taphonomic processes in shaping animal bone assemblages. Nerissa Russell uses evidence derived from not only zooarchaeology, but also ethnography, history and classical studies, to suggest the range of human-animal relationships and to examine their importance in human society. Through exploring the significance of animals to ancient humans, this book provides a richer picture of past societies.

Author : Sharyn Jones O'Day,Wim Van Neer,Anton Ervynck
Publisher :
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2003-12-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781782979135

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Behaviour Behind Bones by Sharyn Jones O'Day,Wim Van Neer,Anton Ervynck Pdf

This book is the first in a series of volumes which form the published proceedings of the 9th meeting of the International Council of Archaeozoology (ICAZ), held in Durham in 2002. The 35 papers present a series of case studies from around the world. They stretch beyond the standard zooarchaeological topics of economy and ecology, and consider how zooarchaeological research can contribute to our understanding of human behaviour and social systems. The volume is divided into two parts. Part 1, Beyond Calories, focuses on the zooarchaeology of ritual and religion. Contributors discuss ways to approach questions of ritual and religion through the faunal record, and consider how material culture depicting and/or associated with animals can provides clues about ideology, religious practices and the role of animals within spiritual systems. Part 2, Equations for Inequality, looks at questions of identity, status and other forms of social differentiation in former human societies. Contributors discuss how differences in food consumption, nutrition, and food procurement strategies can be related to various forms of social differentiation among individuals and groups.

Author : Umberto Albarella,Mauro Rizzetto,Hannah Russ,Kim Vickers,Sarah Viner-Daniels
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 784 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2017-03-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780191509995

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The Oxford Handbook of Zooarchaeology by Umberto Albarella,Mauro Rizzetto,Hannah Russ,Kim Vickers,Sarah Viner-Daniels Pdf

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.

Author : Lee Broderick
Publisher : Oxbow Books
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2016-03-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781785702488

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People with Animals by Lee Broderick Pdf

People with Animals emphasizes the interdependence of people and animals in society, and contributors examine the variety of forms and time-depth that these relations can take. The types of relationship studied include the importance of manure to farming societies, dogs as livestock guardians, seasonality in pastoralist societies, butchery, symbolism and food. Examples are drawn from the Pleistocene to the present day and from the Altai Mountains, Ethiopia, Iraq, Italy, Mongolia and North America. The 11 papers work from the basis that animals are an integral part of society and that past society is the object of most archaeological inquiry. Discussion papers explore this topic and use the case-studies presented in other contributions to suggest the importance of ethnozooarchaeology not just to archaeology but also to anthrozoology. A further contribution to archaeological theory is made by an argument for the validity of ethnozooarchaeology derived models to Neanderthals. The book makes a compelling case for the importance of human-animal relations in the archaeological record and demonstrates why the information contained in this record is of significance to specialists in other disciplines.

Author : Polydora Baker,Fay Worley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2019-06
Category : Animal remains (Archaeology)
ISBN : 1848025556

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Animal Bones and Archaeology by Polydora Baker,Fay Worley Pdf

This handbook provides advice on best practice for the recovery, publication and archiving of animal bones and teeth from Holocene archaeological sites (ie from approximately the last 10,000 years). It has been written for local authority archaeology advisors, consultants, museum curators, project managers, excavators and zooarchaeologists, with the aim of ensuring that approaches are suitable and cost-effective.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1015091750

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Animals in Archaeology by Anonim Pdf

Author : Pam J. Crabtree,Kathleen Ryan
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Museum
Page : 106 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2018-09-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781949057003

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The Symbolic Role of Animals in Archaeology by Pam J. Crabtree,Kathleen Ryan Pdf

The papers in this volume represent a range of approaches to the study of the symbolic roles of animals in human cultures. The theme that unites these papers is their use of a variety of different kinds of evidenceincluding archaeological, faunal, historical, ethnographic, artistic, and folkloric datain the reconstruction of animal symbolism.

Author : Terence Patrick O'Connor,Terry O'Connor
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Animal remains (Archaeology)
ISBN : 0750935243

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The Archaeology of Animal Bones by Terence Patrick O'Connor,Terry O'Connor Pdf

Animal bones are one of the most abundant types of evidence found in archaeological sites dating from pre-historic times to the Middle Ages, and they can reveal a startling amount about the economy and way of life of people in the past. This is a fascinating introduction for anyone seeking to understand how these bones can shed light on our knowledge of the past, as well as the complex relationship between human and animals. Written by one of the most respected experts in this field, and published for the first time in paperback, this book will be essential reading for archaeologists, or indeed anyone intrigued by the recreation of long lost worlds from the most insignificant-seeming fragments of animal bones.