Zoology & Archaeozoology
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Archeologia dell'insediamento Protostorico di Mursia (Pantelleria, Italia) [Paperback]
Antonella Tolve (Author); Sebastiano Tusa (Author)
Regular Price: £42.00
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ISBN: 9781407312569
Published by : British Archaeological Reports
Series: BAR
The second volume in the Lukanian Young Archaeologists series concentrates on the processing of data obtained from archaeoichthyology and archaeomalacology finds from one of the most important prehistoric sites in the Mediterranean. The proto-hist... .... Learn More -
Shuffling Nags, Lame Ducks: The Archaeology of Animal Disease [Paperback]
László Bartosiewicz (Author); Erika Gal (Author)
Regular Price: £38.00
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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 palaeopathology can id... .... Learn More -
Animals and Otherness in the Middle Ages [Paperback]
Francisco de Asís García García (Editor); Mónica Ann Walker Vadillo (Editor); María Victoria Chico Picaza (Editor)
Regular Price: £30.00
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ISBN: 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 scholars from a r... .... Learn More -
A Bouquet of Archaeozoological Studies [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 -
Archaeomalacology Revisited: Non-dietary use of molluscs in archaeological settings [Paperback]
Canan Cakirlar (Editor)
Regular Price: £32.00
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ISBN: 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)
Regular Price: £48.00
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ISBN: 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 -
Of Plants and Snails [Paperback]
Corrie Bakels (Editor); Kelly Fennema (Editor); Welmoed Out (Editor); Caroline Vermeeren (Editor)
£50.00ISBN: 9789088900518
Published by : Sidestone Press
This richly illustrated book contains 24 scientific articles on plants and molluscs written by 38 colleagues and former students of Wim Kuijper. The majority of these articles deal with one or a few species found on archaeological excavations, ... .... Learn More -
Anthropological Approaches to Zooarchaeology: Colonialism, Complexity and Animal Transformations [Hardback]
Douglas V. Campana (Editor); Pamela Crabtree (Editor); S. D. deFrance (Editor); Justin Lev-Tov (Editor); A. M. Choyke (Editor)
£85.00ISBN: 9781842173909
Published by : Oxbow Books
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... .... Learn More -
A Complete Guide to Birds of Malta [Hardback]
Natalino Fenech (Author)
£50.90ISBN: 9789993273103
Published by : Midsea Books
Lying in the centre of the Mediterranean, Malta is a natural staging post for migrant birds crossing from Africa to Europe in spring as well as for migrants returning from their breeding grounds in Europe to the African continent in autumn. Bir... .... Learn More -
Extinctions and Invasions: A Social History of British Fauna [Paperback]
Terry O'Connor (Editor); Naomi Jane Sykes (Editor)
£35.00ISBN: 9781905119318
Published by : Windgather Press
Eight thousand years ago, when the sea cut Britain off from the rest of the Continent, the island's fauna was very different: most of the animals familiar to us today were not present, whilst others, now extinct, were abundant. Over the course ... .... Learn More
