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The 22 essays on various aspects of archaeozoology in this new volume form a Festschrift dedicated to Juliet Clutton-Brock. Contributors include: J Altuna (Northern mammals in the southern Pyrenees during the Upper Pleistocene); L Chaix (Environment and ecology of the Mesolthic hunters inn the northern Alps); C S Churcher (Dogs from Ein Tirghi cemetery, Balat, Egypt); J Paters and A von den Driesch (Mesolithic fishing in Central Sudan); A M Muniz (Ancient Iberian fishing industries from an archaeozoological perspective); H Muller (Horse skeletons of the Bronze Age in central Europe); E Tchernov (From sedentism to domestication in the southern Levant); H Uerpmann (Proposal for a separate nomenclature of domestic animals); E S Wing (The realm between wild and domestic); P Wyrost (The fauna of ancient Poland) .

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Author:   Anneke Clason ,  Sebastian Payne ,  Hans-Peter Uerpmann
Publisher:   Oxbow Books
Imprint:   Oxbow Books
Volume:   No. 34
Dimensions:   Width: 21.00cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 29.70cm
Weight:   0.885kg
ISBN:  

9780946897643

ISBN 10:   0946897646
Pages:   259
Publication Date:   01 June 2012
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Out of Print
Availability:   Out of stock  

Table of Contents

Find of northern mammals in the southern Pyrenees during the Upper Pleistocene, Jesus Altuna; late Medieval lynx skeleton from Hungary, Lazlo Bartosiewicz; on the problem of interpreting within-sample variation, Don Brothwell; environment and ecology of the Mesolithic hunters in the northern Alps, Louis Chaix; dogs from Ein Tirghi cemetery, Balat, Dakleh Oasis, Western desert of Egypt, C.S. Churcher; Bergschenhoek, A.T. Clason and D.C. Brinkhuizen; mesolithic fishing at the junction of the Nile and the Atbara, Central Sudan, Joris Peters and Angela von den Driesch; fawn, kids and lambs, Pierre Duxos; What's in a name? a short story of the Latin and other labels proposed for domestic animals, Achilles Gautier; why are there so many breeds of livestock?, Stephen J.G. Hall; Natural history and experiment in archaology revisted, Peter Iewell; the ecological and archaeological significance of Rock Hyrax bones from modern eagle roosts in South Africa, Richard G. Klein and Kathryn Cruz-Uribe; where are the tunas? Ancient Iberian fishing industries from an archaeozoological perspective, Arturo Morales Muniz; horse skeletons of the Bronze Age in Central Europe, Hanns-Hermann Muller; evidence of early domestication of the water buffalow in China, Stanley J. Olsen; studies of the bone detritus of the striped hyaena ( Hyaena hyaena) at a site in Egyptian Nubia, and the interpretation of the bone breakage by striped hyaenas, Barbara Becker and Charles A. Reed; the Austrian Blondvieh cattle horncores - an archaeozoological view, Alfredo Riedel; from sedentism to domestication - a preliminary review for southern Levan, Eitan Tchernov; size and utilization of the most important domesticated animals in Central Europe from the beginning of domestication until the Middle Ages, Manfred Teichert; proposal for a separate nomenclature of domestic animals, Hans-Peter Uerpmann; the realm between wild and domestic, Elizabeth S. Wing; the fauna of ancient Poland in the light of archaeozoological research, Piotr Wyrost.

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