Zoology & Archaeozoology
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Shuffling Nags, Lame Ducks: The Archaeology of Animal Disease [Paperback]
Erika Gal (Author); László Bartosiewicz (Author)
Regular Price: $60.00
Special Price: $48.00
ISBN: 9781782971894
Published by : Oxbow Books
The analysis of animal bone assemblages from archaeological sites provides much valuable data concerning economic and husbandry practices in the past, as well as insights into cultural and symbolic or ritual activity. Animal palae... .... Learn More -
Animals, Gods and Men from East to West: Papers on archaeology and history in honour of Roberta Venco Ricciardi [Paperback]
Alessandra Peruzzetto (Editor); Francesca Dorna Metzger (Editor); Lucinda Dirven (Editor)
$87.50ISBN: 9781407311340
Published by : British Archaeological Reports
Series: Bar S
Volume: 2516
The 21 articles collected in this commemorative volume centre on animals in relation to men and gods. Many articles deal with iconographical issues, but epigraphy, ceramics and animal bones are subject of research as well. Althoug... .... Learn More -
Animals and Otherness in the Middle Ages : Perspectives across disciplines [Paperback]
Francisco de Asís García García (Editor); Mónica Ann Walker Vadillo (Editor); María Victoria Chico Picaza (Editor)
$72.50ISBN: 9781407311166
Published by : British Archaeological Reports
Series: Bar S
Volume: 2500
This publication has its origin in the colloquium Animals and Otherness in the Middle Ages held at the Faculty of Geography and History at Complutense University in Madrid in February 2011. This publication aims to bring to... .... Learn More -
Brems Nutztierleben: An- und Einsichten eines Tierzüchters in der Tiermedizin [Paperback]
Gottfried Brem (Author)
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A Bouquet of Archaeozoological Studies: Essays in honour of Wietske Prummel [Paperback]
D. C. M. Raemaekers (Editor); E. Esser (Editor); Roel C. G. M. Lauwerier (Editor); J. T. Zeiler (Editor)
$36.00ISBN: 9789491431159
Published by : Barkhuis
Series: Groningen Archaeological Studies
Volume: 21
This volume comprises papers presented to Wietske Prummel on the occasion of her retirement from the Groningen Institute of Archaeology (University of Groningen) in 2012. The contributions cover a wide range of topics from all rea... .... Learn More -
Investigating Animal Burials: Ritual, Mundane and Beyond [Paperback]
James Morris (Author)
$107.50ISBN: 9781407308128
Published by : British Archaeological Reports
In recent years zooarchaeology has started to move beyond the purely economic towards social interpretations. In particular, these social interpretations have often concentrated upon complete or partial animal burials rather than upon the disa... .... Learn More -
The Ritual Killing and Burial of Animals: European Perspectives [Hardback]
Aleksander Pluskowski (Editor)
$96.00ISBN: 9781842174449
Published by : Oxbow Books
The killing and burial of animals in ritualistic contexts is encountered across Europe from Prehistory through to the historical period. This volume presents the state of research across Europe to illustrate how comparable interpretative frame... .... Learn More -
Der Lipizzaner im Spiegel der Wissenschaft [Hardback]
Gottfried Brem (Editor)
$105.00ISBN: 9783700169178
Published by : Austrian Academy of Sciences Press
^TDer Lipizzaner im Spiegel der Wissenschaft
^Aedited by Gottfried Brem
^DHans Hadler, for many years director of the Spanish Riding School in Vienna, has stated that "classical horsemanship is both an art and a science." To some ex... .... Learn More -
Archaeomalacology Revisited: Non-dietary use of molluscs in archaeological settings [Paperback]
Canan Cakirlar (Editor)
$60.00ISBN: 9781842174364
Published by : Oxbow Books
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 organ... .... Learn More -
Ethnozooarchaeology: The Present and Past of Human-Animal Relationships [Hardback]
Umberto Albarella (Editor); Angela Trentacoste (Editor)
$90.00ISBN: 9781842179970
Published by : Oxbow Books
This book examines how the study of human-animal relations can help us interpret archaeological evidence. An international range of contributors examines fishing, hunting and husbandry, slaughtering and butchering, ceremonial and ritual practic... .... Learn More