Overview

This new collection of papers from leading experts provides an overview of cutting-edge research in Old World zooarchaeology. The research presented here spans various areas across Europe, Western Asia and North Africa – from the Mediterranean to the Atlantic. Several chapters focus on Iberia, but the eastern Mediterranean and Britain are also featured. Thematically, the book covers many of the research areas where zooarchaeology can provide a significant contribution. These include animal domestication, bone modifications, fishing, fowling, economic and social status, as well as adaptation and improvement. The investigation of these topics is carried out using a diversity of approaches, thus making the book also a useful compendium of traditional as well as more recently developed methodological applications. All contributions aim to present zooarchaeology as a discipline that studies animals to understand people, and their richly diversified past histories. This will be a valuable source of information not just for specialists, but also for general archaeologists and, potentially, also historians, palaeontologists and geographers, who have an interest for the research themes discussed in the book. The book is dedicated to Simon Davis, who has been a genuine pioneer in the development of modern zooarchaeology. It presents hugely stimulating case studies from the core areas where Davis has worked in the course of his career.

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Author:   Umberto Albarella ,  Cleia Detry ,  Sónia Gabriel ,  Catarina Ginja
Publisher:   Oxbow Books
Imprint:   Oxbow Books
ISBN:  

9781789255348

ISBN 10:   1789255341
Pages:   224
Publication Date:   15 March 2021
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

INTRODUCTION From the Mediterranean to the Atlantic: Simon Davis’ exceptional contribution to the world of zooarchaeology (Umberto Albarella) METHODS AND THEORY IN THE ZOOARCHAEOLOGY OF THE OLD WORLD 2. Taphonomy of carnivores: Understanding archaeological small prey accumulations (Luis Lloveras) 3. Fish Bone studies in Iberia: An overview of 40 years of research (Arturo Morales Muñiz, Laura Llorente Rodríguez & Eufrasia Roselló Izquierdo 4. On the use of micromammals for paleoenvironmental reconstruction: Qesem Cave as a case study (Orr Comay & Tamar Dayan) 5. Traditional sheep and goat husbandry in Cyprus: the effects of scale and its identification in archaeological assemblages (Angelos Hadjikoumis) EARLY PREHISTORY 6. Among hyenas: Nery Delgado, Albert Gaudry, Edouard Harlé and the hyenas of Furninha cave (Portugal) (João Luís Cardoso) 7. Sheepish bones, sheepish dates, sheepish logic and the neolithization of Iberia (João Zilhão) LATE PREHISTORY 8. Astragali and their archaeological contexts in the Iberian Peninsula. Significance, meanings and historical implications (Ana Margarida Arruda) 9. Origins of metallurgy in the southern Levant: microscopic examination of butchering marks on animal bones at Tell Yarmuth, Israel (Haskel Greenfield, Annie Brown & Pierre de Miroschedji) 10. The food chain at the palace of King Amenhotep III at Malqata (Egypt) (Salima Ikram) 11. Caprine husbandry at the Iron Age settlement of A Lanzada (Pontevedra, Spain) (Marta Moreno-García) HISTORIC TIMES 12. Cattle from the East, cattle from the West: diversity of cattle morphotypes in the Iberian Peninsula during late prehistoric and Roman times (Ariadna Nieto-Espinet, Angela Trentacoste, Sílvia Guimarães & Silvia Valenzuela-Lamas) 13. Animal remains from 17th century Carnide, Lisbon, Portugal (Cleia Detry, Ana Beatriz Santos, Tânia Casimiro, Ana Caessa & Nuno Mota) 14. The contribution of Islamic culture to the medieval faunistic redefinition of the Iberian Peninsula (Marco Masseti) 15. Hovering over hawking in Early Medieval Iberia (Laura Llorente Rodríguez, Arturo Morales Muñiz, Leif Jonsson & Evelyne Browaeys) 16. Launceston Castle and Cornish zooarchaeology 25 years on (Polydora Baker) 17. Fodder in the city: rye for animals in the 1755 earthquake in Lisbon (João Tereso & Lídia Fernandes)

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Clearly this is a specialist's volume appropriate for acquisition by institutions with undergraduate and graduate programs in archaeology. The text features the expertly presented results of recent research, as well as extensive current bibliographies and insights that are deeply relevant to the wider field of archaeological research. Recommended. Lower- and upper-division undergraduates. Graduate students and faculty. --R. B. Clay, emeritus, University of Kentucky CHOICE, December 2021 Vol. 59 No. 4

Author Information

Umberto Albarella is a Professor of Zooarchaeology at the University of Sheffield (UK). His research focuses on various aspects of past human –animal relationships and is mainly based in Italy and Britain. He is also interested in the relationship between archaeology, politics and social justice. Cleia Detry is a researcher at Uniarq, the Archaeology Research Unit of the School of Arts of the University of Lisbon. She has worked mainly on Portuguese zooarchaeological assemblages and has a long-standing collaboration with Simon Davis on osteometrics and animal improvement. She also contributes to the Masters in Archaeology at the University of Lisbon. Sónia Gabriel is a zooarchaeologist in charge of the Osteological Reference Collections of the Direcção Geral do Património Cultural (DGPC) (Laboratório de Arqueociências - LARC) in Lisbon. Her research is mainly based in Iberia and Morocco, and she has a particular expertise in fish bones. Catarina Ginja is the Principal Investigator of the Archaeogenetics group at CIBIO/InBIO-Research Centre in Biodiversity and Genetic at the University of Porto (Portugal). She is interested in understanding the origins, evolution and modes of improvement of domestic animals from the Iberian Peninsula. Ana Elisabete Pires is a biologist and researcher at CIBIO - InBIO Archaeogenetics Group (Portugal). Her main interest is in zooarchaeogenetics. Through the analyses of ancient DNA, she is committed to explore the evolutionary paths of the Iberian domestic animals, in particular the dog.

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