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Zoology

Anthropological Approaches to Zooarchaeology: Colonialism, Complexity, and Animal Transformations
edited by D. Campana, P. Crabtree, S.D. deFrance, J. Lev-Tov and A. Choyke
Animals in complex human societies are often both meal and symbol, related to everyday practice and ritual. People in such societies may be characterized as having unequal access to such resources, or else the meaning of animals may differ for component groups. Here, in this book, 28 peer-reviewed papers that span 4 continents and the Caribbean islands explore in different ways how animals were incorporated into the diets and religions of many ...
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Beavers in Britain's Past
by Bryony Coles
Part ecology, part archaeology and part history, Beavers in Britain's Past explores the evidence for Castor fiber, the European beaver from late in the last ice age to the time of its extinction from Britain's native fauna. The first chapters introduce the beaver and its habitats in western Europe, where it is now flourishing. Based on original field survey in Brittany and southeastern France, the characteristic structures and ...
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Zooarchaeology
by Elizabeth J. Reitz and Elizabeth A. Wing
Brought right up to date for its second edition, with three chapters substantially rewritten and a greater focus on environmental change and applied zooarchaeology, this textbook is now firmly established as the key resource for those studying zooarchaeology. Unlike most of its predecessors, it covers both vertebrate and invertebrate classes, outlining methods for their identification and concentrating on detecting the relationship in antiquity ...
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The Future from the Past: Archaeozoology in Wildlife Conservation and Heritage Management
edited by Roel C G M Lauwerier and Ina Plug
The applications of zooarchaeological research can go far beyond the realms of the lab or the site report. These 18 papers are all concerned with the contributions archaeozoologists make to specific problems encountered in the management and conservation of our natural and cultural heritage. The volume is divided into two parts: Part 1 looks at Zooarchaeology and Wildlife Conservation Issues. Contributors explore a range of subjects, including: ...
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Archaeomalacology Revisited: Non-dietary use of molluscs in archaeological settings
edited by Canan Çakirlar
The past decade has witnessed a remarkable momentum in the advancement of archaeomalacological research but there is still a lot of room for progress. These ten papers are the second published proceedings of the archaeomalacology sessions organised by ICAZ (Mexico City, 2006). The contributions revisit important archaeological issues such as provenance of raw materials, dye production and the secondary uses of industrial shell waste, the role of ...
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Biosphere to Lithosphere: new studies in vertebrate taphonomy
by T O'Connor
Taphonomic studies are a major methodological advance, the effects of which have been felt throughout archaeology. Zooarchaeologists and archaeobotanists were the first to realise how vital it was to study the entire process of how food enters the archaeological record, and taphonomy brought to a close the era when the study of animal bones and plant remains from archaeological sites were regarded mainly as environmental indicators.This volume is ...
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Singular Beast: Jews, Christians and the Pig
by Claudine Fabre-Vassas
This original account of the significance of the pig and its relationship to Jews in European Christian culture encompasses a vast array of folklore, history and ritual. Practices related to the breeding, slaughter and consumption of the pig have inspired both religious and secular taboos and rituals, laid out by the author in fascinating detail. She demonstrates clearly the power which a symbol may hold to mould an ethnic identity, and the book ...
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Archaeomalacology
Bar-Yosef, D
Molluscs are the most common invertebrate remains found at archaeological sites, but archaeomalacology (the study of molluscs in archaeological contexts) is a relatively new archaeological discipline and the field of zooarchaeology is seen by many as one mainly focused on the remains of vertebrates. The papers in this volume hope to redress this balance, bringing molluscan studies into mainstream zooarchaeological and archaeological debate, and ...
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Pigs and Humans: 10,000 Years of Interaction
edited by Umberto Albarella, Keith Dobney, Anton Ervynck and Peter Rowley-Conwy
Pigs are unique among domesticated animals in their adaptability and flexiblility. They are the only omnivorous domesticated animal, to the extent that they can serve as waste disposal units, and can be housed in a range of circumstances, rural and urban. However they have a somewhat ambiguous cultural position, seen as dirty, smelly and greedy, and their consumption is prohibited by both the Jewish and Muslim religions. This collection of essays ...
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Environmental Archaeology 7 (2002)
edited by Glynis Jones
Contents. Research Papers: Ancient Fires on Southern Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada: A Change in Causal Mechanisms at about 2,000 ybp (Kendrick J Brown and Richard J Hebda); The Traditional, Historical and Prehistoric Use of Ashes as an Insecticide, with an Experimental Study on the Insecticidal Efficacy of Washed Ash (Tom Hakbijl); Sources of Meat in Colonial Diets: Faunal Evidence from Two Nineteenth Century Tasmanian ...
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