The Oxford handbook of zooarchaeology / edited by Umberto Albarella with Mauro Rizzetto, Hannah Russ, Kim Vickers, Sarah Viner-Daniels.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Humans and mammals in the Upper Palaeolithic of Russia / Mietje Germonpré, Mikhail Sablin -- Changes in lifestyle in ancient Rome (Italy) across the Iron Age/Roman transition: the evidence from animal remains / Jacopo De Grossi, Claudia Minniti -- Zooarchaeological evidence for Moslem improvement of sheep (Ovis aries) in Portugal / Simon Davis -- Animals in urban life in Medieval to Early Modern England / Terry O'Connor -- From bovid to beaver: mammal exploitation in Medieval north-west Russia / Mark Maltby -- The zooarchaeology of Medieval Ireland / Finbar McCormick, Emily Murray -- Fishing, wildfowling and marine mammal exploitation in northern Scotland from prehistory to Early Modern times / Dale Serjeantson -- The emergence of livestock husbandry in Early Neolithic Anatolia / Joris Peters, Nadja Poellath, Benjamin Arbuckle -- South Asian contributions to animal domestication and pastoralism: bones, genes and archaeology / Ajita Patel, Richard Meadow -- The zooarchaeology of complexity and specialisation during the Upper Palaeolithic in Western Europe: changing diversity and evenness / Katherine Boyle -- The zooarchaeology of Neolithic China / Xiaolin Ma, Li Liu -- Subsistence economy, animal domestication and herd management in prehistoric central Asia (Neolithic -- Iron Age) / Norbert Benecke -- Introduction of domestic animals to the Japanese archipelago / Hitomi Hongo -- Farming, social change and state formation in south-east Asia / Charles F.W. Higham -- The zooarchaeology of early historic periods in the southern Levant / Sarah Kansa, Justin E. Lev-Tov -- Middle and Later Stone Age hunters and their prey in southern Africa / Ina Plug -- Pastoralism in sub-Saharan Africa: emergence and ramifications / Diane Gifford-Gonzalez -- Cattle, a major component of the Kerma culture (Sudan) / Louis Chaix -- The zooarchaeology of Iron Age farmers from southern Africa / Shaw Badenhorst -- Mesolithic hunting and fishing in the coastal and terrestrial environments of the eastern Baltic / Lembi Lõugas -- Animals in Ancient Egyptian religion: belief, identity, power and economy / Salima Ikram -- Animals, acculturation and colonisation in Ancient and Islamic North Africa / Michael MacKinnon -- 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 Heinrich -- Zooarchaeology of the pre-Contact Northwest coast of North America / Gregory G. Monks -- Fauna and the emergence of intensive agricultural economies in the United States south-west / Rebecca Dean -- 13,000 years of communal bison hunting in western North America / John D. Speth -- Tracking the trade in animal pelts in early historic eastern North America / Heather A. Lapham -- Animal use at early colonies on the south-eastern coast of the United States / Elizabeth Reitz -- Archaeozoological techniques and protocols for elaborating scenarios of early colonisation and Neolithisation of Cyprus / Jean-Denis Vigne -- Advances in hunter-gatherer research in Mexico: archaeozoological contributions / Joaquin Arroyo-Cabrales, Eduardo Corona-M. -- The exploitation of aquatic environments by the Olmec and Epi-Olmec / Tanya M. Peres -- Zooarchaeology of the Maya / Kitty F. Emery -- Zooarchaeological approaches to Pre-Columbian archaeology in the neotropics of north-western South America / Peter Stahl -- Zooarchaeology of Brazilian shell mounds / Daniela Klokler -- Camelid hunting and herding in Inca times: a view from the South of the empire / Guillermo Luis Mengoni Goñalons -- Forests, steppes and coastlines: zooarchaeology and the prehistoric exploitation of Patagonian habitats / Luis Alberto Borrero -- Pleistocene adaptations in tropical rainforest environments in Island Melanesia / Matthew Leavesley -- Behavioural inferences from Late Pleistocene aboriginal Australia: seasonality, butchery and nutrition in south-west Tasmania / Richard Cosgrove, Jillian Garvey -- Regional and chronological variations in energy harvests from prehistoric fauna in New Zealand / Ian Smith -- Spatial variability and human eco-dynamics in central-east Polynesian fisheries / Melinda S. Allen -- The exploitation of aquatic resources in Holocene West Africa / Veerle Linseele -- Patterns of animal exploitation in western Turkey: from Palaeolithic molluscs to Byzantine elephants / Canan Çakırlar, Levent Atici -- Zooarchaeology in the 21st century: where we come from, where we are, and where we are going / Umberto Albarella -- Zooarchaeological results from Neolithic and Bronze Age wetland and dryland sites in the Central Alpine Foreland: economic, ecologic and taphonomic relevance / Jörg Schibler -- Zooarchaeology in the Carpathian Basin and adjacent areas / László Bartosiewicz -- Sheep, sacrifices and symbols: animals in Later Bronze Age Greece / Paul Halstead, Valasia Isaakidou -- Zooarchaeology of the Scandinavian settlements in Iceland and Greenland: diverging pathways / Thomas H. McGovern, Konrad Smiarowski, George Hambrecht, Seth Brewington, Ramona Harrison, Megan Hicks, Frank J. Feeley, Céline Dupont-Hébert, Brenda Prehal, James Woollett.

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