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Author:   Umberto Albarella (Research Fellow in Archaeology, University of Sheffield) ,  Keith Dobney (Wellcome Trust Bioarchaeology Fellow, University of Durham) ,  Anton Ervynck (Fellow of the Institute for the Archaeological Heritage of the Flemish Community in Brussels) ,  Peter Rowley-Conwy (Reader in Environmental Archaeology, University of Durham)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 16.20cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 24.00cm
Weight:   0.959kg
ISBN:  

9780199207046

ISBN 10:   0199207046
Pages:   488
Publication Date:   06 December 2007
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Umberto Albarella, Keith Dobney, Anton Ervynck & Peter Rowley-Conwy: Introduction I. Evolution and Taxonomy 1: Colin Groves: Current views on taxonomy and zoogeography of the genus Sus 2: Greger Larson, Umberto Albarella, Keith Dobney & Peter Rowley-Conwy: Current views on Sus phylogeography and pig domestication as seen through modern mtDNA studies 3: Leif Andersson: The molecular basis for phenotypic changes during pig domestication II. The History of Pig Domestication and Husbandry 4: Keith Dobney, Anton Ervynck, Umberto Albarella & Peter Rowley-Conwy: The transition from wild boar to domestic pig in Eurasia, illustrated by a tooth development defect and biometrical data 5: Caroline Grigson: Culture, ecology and pigs from the 5th to the 3rd millennium BC around the Fertile Crescent 6: Hitomi Hongo, Tomoko Anezaki, Kyomi Yamazaki, Osamu Takahashi & Hiroki Sugawara: Hunting or management? The status of Sus in the Jomon Period, Japan 7: Peter Rowley-Conwy & Keith Dobney: Wild boar and domestic pigs in Mesolithic and Neolithic southern Scandinavia 8: Marco Masseti: The economic role of Sus in early human fishing communities 9: Anton Ervynck, An Lentacker, Gundula Muldner, Mike Richards & Keith Dobney: An investigation into the transition from forest dwelling pigs to farm animals in medieval Flanders, Belgium III. Methodological Applications 10: Richard Carter & Ola Magnell: Age estimation of wild boar based on molariform mandibular tooth development and its application to seasonality at the Mesolithic site of Ringkloster, Denmark 11: Annat Haber: A statistical method for dealing with isolated teeth: ageing pig teeth from Hagoshrim, Israel 12: Goggy Davidowitz & Liora Kolska Horwitz: Inter-population variation in recent wild boar from Israel 13: Tom Wilkie, Ingrid Mainland, Umberto Albarella, Keith Dobney & Peter Rowley-Conwy: A dental microwear study of pig diet and management in Iron Age, Romano-British, Anglo-Scandinavian and medieval contexts in England 14: Horst Kierdorf & Uwe Kierdorf: The histopathology of fluorotic dental enamel in wild boar and domestic pigs 15: Sofie Vanpoucke, Bea De Cupere & Marc Waelkens: Economic and ecological reconstruction at the Classical site of Sagalassos, Turkey, using pigs' teeth IV. Ethnographic Studies 16: Umberto Albarella, Filippo Manconi, Jean-Denis Vigne & Peter Rowley-Conwy: Ethnoarchaeology of pig husbandry in Sardinia and Corsica 17: Jacqueline Studer & Daniel Pillonel: Traditional pig butchery by the Yali people of West Papua (Irian Jaya): an ethnographic and archaeozoological example 18: Paul Sillitoe: Pigs in the New Guinea Highlands: an ethnographic example V. Pigs in Ritual and Art 19: Anne-Sophie Dalix & Emmanuelle Vila: Wild boar hunting in the Eastern Mediterranean from the 2nd to the 1st millennium BC 20: Sarah Phillips: The pig in medieval iconography

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...a multidisciplinary approach that takes into account zoology, palaeontology, genetics, ethnography and archaeology, and researchers with these different approaches have contributed to the many authoritative chapters in this book. It has been well editied, has excellent illustrations and will be of interest and use to readers in many different disciplines. Juliet Clutton-Brock Times Literary Supplement [an] important contribution to the repertoire of zooarchaeological studies Philip J. Piper Antiquity

[an] important contribution to the repertoire of zooarchaeological studies * Philip J. Piper Antiquity * ...a multidisciplinary approach that takes into account zoology, palaeontology, genetics, ethnography and archaeology, and researchers with these different approaches have contributed to the many authoritative chapters in this book. It has been well editied, has excellent illustrations and will be of interest and use to readers in many different disciplines. * Juliet Clutton-Brock Times Literary Supplement *

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Umberto Albarella is Research Fellow in Archaeology at the University of Sheffield. Keith Dobney is Wellcome Trust Bioarchaeology Fellow at the University of Durham. Anton Ervynck is Fellow of the Institute for the Archaeological Heritage of the Flemish Community in Brussels. Peter Rowley-Conwy is Reader in Environmental Archaeology at the University of Durham.

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