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This book is one of a series of more than 20 volumes resulting
from the World Archaeological Congress, September 1986, attempting
to bring together not only archaeologists and anthropologists from
many parts of the world, as well as academics from contingent
disciplines, but also non-academics from a wide range of cultural
backgrounds. This text looks at human-animal interactions,
especially some of the less well known aspects of the field. A
number of studies in the book document some of the vast changes
humankind has wrought upon the natural environment through the
movement of various species of animals around the world. These
chapters provide contributions to the understanding of contemporary
ecological problems, especially the deforestation taking place to
provide grazing for live-stock. The 31 contributions offer a
shop-window of approaches, primarily from a biological
perspective.
Papers from an important conference on zooarchaeology, reflecting
state-of-the-art work on the study of human relationship to animals
in ancient times.
This book is one of a series of more than 20 volumes resulting from
the World Archaeological Congress, September 1986, attempting to
bring together not only archaeologists and anthropologists from
many parts of the world, as well as academics from contingent
disciplines, but also non-academics from a wide range of cultural
backgrounds. This text looks at human-animal interactions,
especially some of the less well known aspects of the field. A
number of studies in the book document some of the vast changes
humankind has wrought upon the natural environment through the
movement of various species of animals around the world. These
chapters provide contributions to the understanding of contemporary
ecological problems, especially the deforestation taking place to
provide grazing for live-stock. The 31 contributions offer a
shop-window of approaches, primarily from a biological perspective.
Papers from an important conference on zooarchaeology, reflecting
state-of-the-art work on the study of human relationship to animals
in ancient times.
A survey of the cat and its 7,000-year relationship with mankind.
Using illustrations drawn mainly from the British and Natural
History Museums, this book looks at the different roles cats have
played in human life and how modern breeds have evolved from the
original wild cat.
Luristan in Western Iran was largely inaccessible to foreigners
until the construction of a new road in the 1960s permitted a
Danish archaeologucal team to investigate the Luristan Bronze
culture. This volume examines the Protohistoric finds, the
settlement, tombs and graves from the centuries around 1000 BC and
includes reports on animal bone and human remains. The Neolithic
and other prehistoric finds will be published by Peder Mortensen.
This volume also records the last century's mismanagement and
exploitation of the Luristan cultural heritage.
Drawing on the latest research in archaeozoology, archaeology,
and molecular biology, "Animals as Domesticates "traces the history
of the domestication of animals around the world. From the llamas
of South America and the turkeys of North America, to the cattle of
India and the Australian dingo, this fascinating book explores the
history of the complex relationships between humans and their
domestic animals. With expert insight into the biological and
cultural processes of domestication, Clutton-Brock suggests how the
human instinct for nurturing may have transformed relationships
between predator and prey, and she explains how animals have become
companions, livestock, and laborers. The changing face of
domestication is traced from the spread of the earliest livestock
around the Neolithic Old World through ancient Egypt, the Greek and
Roman empires, South East Asia, and up to the modern industrial
age.
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