Ethnozooarchaeology : the present and past of human-animal relationships / edited by Umberto Albarella and Angela Trentacoste.

Other author Albarella, Umberto.
Other author Trentacoste, Angela.
Other author International Council for Archaeozoology. Conference 2006 : Mexico City, Mexico)
Format Book
Publication InfoOxford : Oxbow Books ; Oakville, CT : [Distributed in the U.S. by] David Brown Book Co., ©2011.
Descriptionviii, 174 pages : illustrations, maps ; 31 cm
Subjects

Contents Pt. 1. Introduction and methods -- Ethnozooarchaeology and the power of analogy / Umberto Albarella -- A dog is for hunting / Karen D. Lupo -- Past and present strategies for draught exploitation of cattle / Niels Johannsen -- Animal dung : rich ethnographic records, poor archaeozoological evidence / Marta Moreno-García and Carlos M. Pimenta -- Folk taxonomies and human-animal relations : the early Neolithic in the Polish lowlands / Arkadiusz Marciniak -- pt. 2. Fishing, hunting, and foraging -- The historical use of terrestrial vertebrates in the Selva region (Chiapas, México) / Eduardo Corona-M. and Patricia Enríquez Vázquez -- Pacific Ocean fishing traditions : subsistence, beliefs, ecology, and households / Jean L. Hudson -- The ethnography of fishing in Scotland and its contribution to icthyoarchaeological analysis in this region / Ruby N. Cerón-Carrasco -- Contemporary subsistence and foodways in the Lau Islands of Fiji : an ethnoarchaeological study of non-optimal foraging and irrational economics / Sharyn Jones -- Ethnozooarchaeology of the Mani (Orang Asli) of Trang Province, Southern Thailand : a preliminary result of faunal analysis at Sakai Cave / Hitomi Hongo and Prasit Auetrakulvit -- pt. 3. Food preparation and consumption -- An ethnoarchaeological study of marine coastal fish butchery in Pakistan / William R. Belcher -- Ethnozooarchaeology of butchering practices in the Mahas region, Sudan / Elizabeth R. Arnold and Diane Lyons -- pt. 4. Husbandry and herding -- Social principles of Andean camelid pastoralism and archaeological interpretations / Penelope Dransart -- Incidence and causes of calf mortality in Maasai herds : implications for zooarchaeological interpretation / Kathleen Ryan and Paul Nkuo Kunoni -- A week on the plateau : pig husbandry, mobility, and resource exploitation in central Sardinia / Umberto Albarella, Filippo Manconi, and Angela Trentacoste -- A pig fed by hand is worth two in the bush : ethnoarchaeology of pig husbandry in Greece and its archaeological implications / Paul Halstead and Valasia Isaakidou.
General noteChiefly papers originally presented at a session of the 10th conference of the International Council of Archaeozoology in Mexico City, Aug. 23rd-28th, 2006.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references.
LCCN 2011009345
ISBN9781842179970
ISBN1842179977
Standard identifier# 40019764275

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