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The Oxford Handbook of Zooarchaeology

by Umberto Albarella, Mauro Rizzetto, Hannah Russ, Kim Vickers, Sarah Viner-Daniels

The Oxford Handbook of Zooarchaeology offers a cutting-edge compendium of zooarchaeology the world over that seeks to provide a holistic view of the role played by animals in shaping human history, with case studies from five continents examining human-animal relationships across a range of geographical, historical, and cultural contexts.

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Animals have played a fundamental role in shaping human history, and the study of their remains from archaeological sites--zooarchaeology--has gradually been emerging as a powerful discipline and crucible for forging an understanding of our past.The Oxford Handbook of Zooarchaeology offers a cutting-edge compendium of zooarchaeology the world over that transcends environmental, economic, and social approaches, seekinginstead to provide a holistic view of the roles played by animals in past human cultures.Incisive chapters written by leading scholars in the field incorporate case studies from across five continents,from Iceland to New Zealand and from Japan to Egypt and Ecuador, providing a sense of the dynamism of the discipline, the many approaches and methods adopted by different schools and traditions, and an idea of the huge range of interactions that have occurred between people and animals throughout the world and its history. Adaptations of human-animal relationships in environments as varied as the Arctic, temperate forests, deserts, the tropics, and the sea are discussed, while studies ofhunter-gatherers, farmers, herders, fishermen, and even traders and urban dwellers highlight the importance that animals have had in all forms of human societies. With an introduction that clearlycontextualizes the current practice of zooarchaeology in relation to both its history and the challenges and opportunities that can be expected for the future, and a methodological glossary illuminating the way in which zooarchaeologists approach the study of their material, this Handbook will be invaluable not only for specialists in the field, but for anybody who has an interest in our past and the role that animals have played in forging it.

Author Biography

Umberto Albarella is a Reader in Zooarchaeology at the University of Sheffield. He obtained his PhD from the University of Durham, having first become interested in anthropology and then archaeology as an undergraduate student, and worked at the Universities of Lecce, Birmingham, and Durham before moving to the University of Sheffield in 2004. Specializing in the study of animal bones from archaeological sites, his main areas of research are wide-ranging andinclude animal domestication and husbandry intensification, ethnoarchaeology, the ritual use of animals, husbandry evidence of Romanization, animals and medieval life, integration in archaeology, andarchaeology and politics. He is widely published in these fields and has previously served as Secretary of the International Council of Archaeozoology (ICAZ) from 2006 until 2012. Mauro Rizzetto is a PhD student at the University of Sheffield whose research concerns the development of animal husbandry during the late Roman to early medieval transition in Britain and the lower Rhine region, with particular regard to biometrical changes. He has also been working at a number of archaeologicalsites in Italy, Britain, France, Greece, and Spain, dating from the Neolithic to the post-medieval period. He previously obtained an undergraduate degree in Archaeological Science in 2013 and a Master'sdegree in Osteoarchaeology in 2015, both at the University of Sheffield. Hannah Russ is a Post-Excavation Manager at archaeology.biz and an Honorary Research fellow at the University of Wales, Trinity Saint David. She is a zooarchaeologist specializing in the study of aquatic animals, including fish, molluscs, and crustaceans, and has worked on remains from five UNESCO World Heritage sites, as well as other sites in Western Europe and the Middle East dating from the Upper Palaeolithic throughto the post-medieval period. Hannah completed her PhD in Archaeological Sciences in 2011 at the University of Bradford and subsequently held positions at the University of Sheffield and Oxford BrookesUniversity. She was appointed a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London (FSA) in 2019. Kim Vickers completed her PhD on the palaeoentomology of the North Atlantic islands in 2007. Her research has focused on the environmental impact of medieval human settlement and activity in Iceland, Greenland, and the Faroe islands, and on the nature of resource use and contact between Norse and Inuit cultures in Greenland, while her other research interests include the Iron Age to Roman transition inBritain and the effects of the Roman invasion of Britain on farming practices and animal husbandry in the early first millennium AD. Sarah Viner-Daniels completed her PhD at the University ofSheffield and was subsequently appointed as a Research Associate to the Feeding Stonehenge project. Her main areas of interest include animal exploitation in Mesolithic and Neolithic Britain and the application of isotopic analysis (using strontium and oxygen) to the understanding of prehistoric livestock mobility.

Table of Contents

List of FiguresList of TablesNote on Online Supplementary MaterialI. INTRODUCTION1: Umberto Albarella: Zooarchaeology in the twenty-first century: where we come from, where we are now, and where we are goingII. EUROPE2: Mietje Germonpré and Mikhail V. Sablin: Humans and mammals in the Upper Palaeolithic of Russia3: Katherine Boyle: The zooarchaeology of complexity and specialization during the Upper Palaeolithic in Western Europe: changing diversity and evenness4: Lembi Lõugas: Mesolithic hunting and fishing in the coastal and terrestrial environments of the eastern Baltic5: Jean-Denis Vigne: Archaeozoological techniques and protocols for elaborating scenarios of early colonization and Neolithization of Cyprus6: Jörg Schibler: Zooarchaeological results from Neolithic and Bronze Age wetland and dryland sites in the Central Alpine Foreland: economic, ecologic, and taphonomic relevance7: László Bartosiewicz: Zooarchaeology in the Carpathian Basin and adjacent areas8: Paul Halstead and Valasia Isaakidou: Sheep, sacrifices, and symbols: animals in Later Bronze Age Greece9: Jacopo De Grossi Mazzorin and Claudia Minniti: Changes in lifestyle in ancient Rome (Italy) across the Iron Age/Roman transition: the evidence from animal remains10: Konrad Smiarowski, Ramona Harrison, Seth Brewington, Megan Hicks, Frank J. Feeley, Céline Dupont-Hébert, Brenda Prehal, George Hambrecht, James Woollett, and Thomas H. McGovern: Zooarchaeology of the Scandinavian settlements in Iceland and Greenland: diverging pathways11: Dale Serjeantson: Fishing, wildfowling, and marine mammal exploitation in northern Scotland from prehistory to Early Modern times12: Simon J. M. Davis: Zooarchaeological evidence for Muslim improvement of sheep (Ovis aries) in Portugal13: Finbar McCormick and Emily Murray: The zooarchaeology of Medieval Ireland14: Terry O'Connor: Animals in urban life in Medieval to Early Modern England15: Mark Maltby: From bovid to beaver: mammal exploitation in Medieval northwest RussiaIII. ASIA16: Joris Peters, Nadja Pöllath, and Benjamin S. Arbuckle: The emergence of livestock husbandry in Early Neolithic Anatolia17: Canan Çak)irlar and Levent Atici: Patterns of animal exploitation in western Turkey: from Palaeolithic molluscs to Byzantine elephants18: Ajita K. Patel and Richard H. Meadow: South Asian contributions to animal domestication and pastoralism: bones, genes, and archaeology19: Li Liu and Xiaolin Ma: The zooarchaeology of Neolithic China20: Norbert Benecke: Subsistence economy, animal domestication, and herd management in prehistoric central Asia (Neolithic - Iron Age)21: Hitomi Hongo: Introduction of domestic animals to the Japanese archipelago22: Charles F. W. Higham: Farming, social change, and state formation in south-east Asia23: Justin E. Lev-Tov and Sarah Whitcher Kansa: The zooarchaeology of early historic periods in the southern LevantIV. AFRICA24: Ina Plug: Middle and Later Stone Age hunters and their prey in southern Africa25: Diane Gifford-Gonzalez: Pastoralism in sub-Saharan Africa: emergence and ramifications26: Louis Chaix: Cattle, a major component of the Kerma culture (Sudan)27: Shaw Badenhorst: The zooarchaeology of Iron Age farmers from southern Africa28: Veerle Linseele: The exploitation of aquatic resources in Holocene West Africa29: Salima Ikram: Animals in ancient Egyptian religion: belief, identity, power, and economy30: Michael MacKinnon: Animals, acculturation, and colonization in ancient and Islamic North Africa31: Adam R. Heinrich: Historical zooarchaeology of colonialism, mercantilism, and indigenous dispossession: the Dutch East India Company's meat industry at the Cape of Good Hope, South AfricaV. NORTH AMERICA32: Gregory G. Monks: Zooarchaeology of the pre-Contact Northwest coast of North America33: Rebecca M. Dean: Fauna and the emergence of intensive agricultural economies in the United States Southwest34: John D. Speth: 13,000 years of communal bison hunting in western North America35: Joaquín Arroyo-Cabrales and Eduardo Corona-M.: Advances in hunter-gatherer research in Mexico: archaeozoological contributions36: Tanya M. Peres: The exploitation of aquatic environments by the Olmec and Epi-Olmec37: Heather A. Lapham: Tracking the trade in animal pelts in early historic eastern North America38: Elizabeth J. Reitz: Animal use at early colonies on the south-eastern coast of the United States39: Kitty F. Emery: Zooarchaeology of the MayaVI. SOUTH AMERICA40: Peter W. Stahl: Zooarchaeological approaches to Pre-Columbian archaeology in the neotropics of northwestern South America41: Daniela Klokler: Zooarchaeology of Brazilian shell mounds42: Guillermo L. Mengoni Goñalons: Camelid hunting and herding in Inca times: a view from the South of the empire43: Luis A. Borrero: Forests, steppes, and coastlines: zooarchaeology and the prehistoric exploitation of Patagonian habitatsVII. OCEANIA44: Matthew Leavesley: Themes in the Zooarchaeology of Pleistocene Melanesia45: Richard Cosgrove and Jillian Garvey: Behavioural inferences from Late Pleistocene aboriginal Australia: seasonality, butchery, and nutrition in southwest Tasmania46: Ian Smith: Regional and chronological variations in energy harvests from prehistoric fauna in New Zealand47: Melinda S. Allen: Spatial variability and human eco-dynamics in central-east Polynesian fisheriesMauro Rizzetto and Umberto Albarella: A Glossary of Zooarchaeological MethodsNotes on ContributorsIndex

Review

This book is another manifestation of and for the global community of zooarchaeology. * Eve Rannamäe, ICAZ NEWSLETTER *
The book is an assertion of the importance of zooarchaeology...It should be on the shelves of not just 'bone buffs', but of archaeologists across the discipline. * Peter Rowley-Conwy, Durham University, Antiquity *
Together, the volume's eight African chapters give a varied and well-referenced overview of archaeozoology as practised in diverse regions of the continent... * Peter Mitchell, Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa *
The book's historical and geographical range is remarkable from interrelationships between humans and mammals in Siberia to prehistoric fauna in New Zealand...And you don't need a degree in anatomy or archaeology: the book is accessible and focuses on concepts and themes (rather than anatomical minutiae),supported by extensive references that allow you to take matters further. * Mark Greener, Fortean Times *

Long Description

Animals have played a fundamental role in shaping human history, and the study of their remains from archaeological sites--zooarchaeology--has gradually been emerging as a powerful discipline and crucible for forging an understanding of our past.The Oxford Handbook of Zooarchaeology offers a cutting-edge compendium of zooarchaeology the world over that transcends environmental, economic, and social approaches, seeking instead to provide a holistic view of the roles played by animals in past human cultures.Incisive chapters written by leading scholars in the field incorporate case studies from across five continents, from Iceland to New Zealand and from Japan to Egypt and Ecuador, providing a sense of the dynamism of the discipline, the many approaches and methods adopted by different schools and traditions, and an idea of the huge range of interactions that have occurred between people and animals throughout the world and its history. Adaptations of human-animal relationships in environments asvaried as the Arctic, temperate forests, deserts, the tropics, and the sea are discussed, while studies of hunter-gatherers, farmers, herders, fishermen, and even traders and urban dwellers highlight the importance that animals have had in all forms of human societies. With an introduction thatclearly contextualizes the current practice of zooarchaeology in relation to both its history and the challenges and opportunities that can be expected for the future, and a methodological glossary illuminating the way in which zooarchaeologists approach the study of their material, this Handbook will be invaluable not only for specialists in the field, but for anybody who has an interest in our past and the role that animals have played in forging it.

Review Quote

Together, the volume's eight African chapters give a varied and well-referenced overview of archaeozoology as practised in diverse regions of the continent...

Feature

Provides a global overview of the field from its leading scholars in a single comprehensive and up-to-date volumeIncludes a methodological glossary to ensure that approaches and methods are accessible to readers of all levels of experience and expertiseSupplements incisive analysis of case studies with numerous detailed figures and illustrations

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List of Figures List of Tables Note on Online Supplementary Material I. INTRODUCTION 1. Zooarchaeology in the twenty-first century: where we come from, where we are now, and where we are going, Umberto Albarella II. EUROPE 2. Humans and mammals in the Upper Palaeolithic of Russia, Mietje Germonprand Mikhail V. Sablin 3. The zooarchaeology of complexity and specialization during the Upper Palaeolithic in Western Europe: changing diversity and evenness, Katherine Boyle 4. Mesolithic hunting and fishing in the coastal and terrestrial environments of the eastern Baltic, Lembi Lugas 5. Archaeozoological techniques and protocols for elaborating scenarios of early colonization and Neolithization of Cyprus, Jean-Denis Vigne 6. Zooarchaeologicalresults from Neolithic and Bronze Age wetlandand dryland sites in the Central Alpine Foreland: economic, ecologic, and taphonomicrelevance, Jrg Schibler 7. Zooarchaeology in the Carpathian Basin and adjacent areas, LszlBartosiewicz 8. Sheep, sacrifices, and symbols: animals in Later Bronze Age Greece, Paul Halstead and Valasia Isaakidou 9. Changes in lifestyle in ancient Rome (Italy) across the Iron Age/Roman transition: the evidence from animal remains, Jacopo De Grossi Mazzorin and Claudia Minniti 10. Zooarchaeology of the Scandinavian settlements in Iceland and Greenland: diverging pathways, Konrad Smiarowski, Ramona Harrison, Seth Brewington, Megan Hicks, Frank J. Feeley, Cline Dupont-Hbert, Brenda Prehal, George Hambrecht, James Woollett, and Thomas H. McGovern 11. Fishing, wildfowling, and marine mammal exploitation in northern Scotland from prehistory to Early Modern times, Dale Serjeantson 12. Zooarchaeological evidence for Muslim improvement of sheep (Ovis aries) in Portugal, Simon J. M. Davis 13. The zooarchaeology of Medieval Ireland, Finbar McCormick and Emily Murray 14. Animals in urban life in Medieval to Early Modern England, Terry O''Connor 15. From bovid to beaver: mammal exploitation in Medieval northwest Russia, Mark Maltby III. ASIA 16. The emergence of livestock husbandry in Early Neolithic Anatolia, Joris Peters, Nadja Pllath, and Benjamin S. Arbuckle 17. Patterns of animal exploitation in western Turkey: from Palaeolithic molluscs to Byzantine elephants, Canan ak)irlar and Levent Atici 18. South Asian contributions to animal domestication and pastoralism: bones, genes, and archaeology, Ajita K. Patel and Richard H. Meadow 19. The zooarchaeology of Neolithic China, Li Liu and Xiaolin Ma 20. Subsistence economy, animal domestication, and herd management in prehistoric central Asia (Neolithic - Iron Age), Norbert Benecke 21. Introduction of domestic animals to the Japanese archipelago, Hitomi Hongo 22. Farming, social change, and state formation in south-east Asia, Charles F. W. Higham 23. The zooarchaeology of early historic periods in the southern Levant, Justin E. Lev-Tov and Sarah Whitcher Kansa IV. AFRICA 24. Middle and Later Stone Age hunters and their prey in southern Africa, Ina Plug 25. Pastoralism in sub-Saharan Africa: emergence and ramifications, Diane Gifford-Gonzalez 26. Cattle, a major component of the Kerma culture (Sudan), Louis Chaix 27. The zooarchaeology of Iron Age farmers from southern Africa, Shaw Badenhorst 28. The exploitation of aquatic resources in Holocene West Africa, Veerle Linseele 29. Animals in ancient Egyptian religion: belief, identity, power, and economy, Salima Ikram 30. Animals, acculturation, and colonization in ancient and Islamic North Africa, Michael MacKinnon 31. Historical zooarchaeology of colonialism, mercantilism, and indigenous dispossession: the Dutch East India Company''s meat industry at the Cape of Good Hope, South Africa, Adam R. Heinrich V. NORTH AMERICA 32. Zooarchaeology of the pre-Contact Northwest coast of North America, Gregory G. Monks 33. Fauna and the emergence of intensive agricultural economies in the United States Southwest, Rebecca M. Dean 34. 13,000 years of communal bison hunting in western North America, John D. Speth 35. Advances in hunter-gatherer research in Mexico: archaeozoological contributions, Joaqun Arroyo-Cabrales and Eduardo Corona-M. 36. The exploitation of aquatic environments by the Olmec and Epi-Olmec, Tanya M. Peres 37. Tracking the trade in animal pelts in early historic eastern North America, Heather A. Lapham 38. Animal use at early colonies on the south-eastern coast of the United States, Elizabeth J. Reitz 39. Zooarchaeology of the Maya, Kitty F. Emery VI. SOUTH AMERICA 40. Zooarchaeological approaches to Pre-Columbian archaeology in the neotropics of northwestern South America, Peter W. Stahl 41. Zooarchaeology of Brazilian shell mounds, Daniela Klokler 42. Camelid hunting and herding in Inca times: a view from the South of the empire, Guillermo L. Mengoni Goalons 43. Forests, steppes, and coastlines: zooarchaeology and the prehistoric exploitation of Patagonian habitats, Luis A. Borrero VII. OCEANIA 44. Themes in the Zooarchaeology of Pleistocene Melanesia, Matthew Leavesley 45. Behavioural inferences from Late Pleistocene aboriginal Australia: seasonality, butchery, and nutrition in southwest Tasmania, Richard Cosgrove and Jillian Garvey 46. Regional and chronological variations in energy harvests from prehistoric fauna in New Zealand, Ian Smith 47. Spatial variability and human eco-dynamics in central-east Polynesian fisheries, Melinda S. Allen A Glossary of Zooarchaeological Methods, Mauro Rizzetto and Umberto Albarella Notes on Contributors Index

Details ISBN0198854439 Pages 864 Publisher Oxford University Press Series Oxford Handbooks Year 2020 ISBN-10 0198854439 ISBN-13 9780198854432 Format Paperback Imprint Oxford University Press Place of Publication Oxford Country of Publication United Kingdom Edited by Sarah Viner-Daniels DEWEY 930.1028 Affiliation Honorary Research Fellow, University of Sheffield Position Honorary Research Fellow Language English Publication Date 2020-07-23 Author Sarah Viner-Daniels UK Release Date 2020-07-23 AU Release Date 2020-07-23 NZ Release Date 2020-07-23 Illustrations 129 black-and-white illustrations Alternative 9780199686476 Audience Undergraduate

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