Zoology & Archaeozoology
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Shuffling Nags, Lame Ducks: The Archaeology of Animal Disease [Paperback]
László Bartosiewicz (Author); Erika Gal (Author)
Regular Price: £38.00
Special Price: £30.00
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)
£35.00ISBN: 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)
£29.00ISBN: 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 together ... .... Learn More -
Social Zooarchaeology: Humans and Animals in Prehistory [Hardback]
Nerissa Russell (Author)
£65.00ISBN: 9780521767378
Published by : Cambridge University Press
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 o... .... Learn More -
Social Zooarchaeology: Humans and Animals in Prehistory [Paperback]
Nerissa Russell (Author)
£33.00ISBN: 9780521143110
Published by : Cambridge University Press
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 o... .... Learn More -
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)
£24.00ISBN: 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)
£43.00ISBN: 9781407308128
Published by : British Archaeological Reports
This book presents a study of complete or partial animal burials from the Neolithic to late Medieval periods of southern England and Yorkshire. Not only does it present data on over 2000 deposits, it also discusses their interpretation, arguing... .... Learn More -
The Bear: History of a Fallen King [Hardback]
Michel Pastoureau (Author)
£22.95ISBN: 9780674047822
Published by : Harvard University Press
In this fascinating book Michel Pastoreau provides a history of the bear in Europe, looking at relations between humans and bears, and the bear as cultural and symbolic signifier. He shows the importance of the bear in religion, mythology and a... .... Learn More -
The Ten-Thousand Year Fever: Rethinking Human and Wild-Primate Malaria [Paperback]
Loretta A Cormier (Author)
£23.50ISBN: 9781598744835
Published by : Left Coast Press
In this pathbreaking book Loretta Cormier integrates a wide range of data from molecular biology, ethnoprimatology, epidemiology, ecology, anthropology, and other fields to reveal the intimate relationships between culture and environment that ... .... Learn More -
The Ritual Killing and Burial of Animals: European Perspectives [Hardback]
Aleksander Pluskowski (Editor)
£48.00ISBN: 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