Beastly Questions : Animal Answers to Archaeological Issues.
Zooarchaeology, or the study of ancient animals, is a frequently side-lined subject in archaeology. This is bizarre given that the archaeological record is composed largely of debris from human-animal relationships (be they in the form of animal bones, individual artefacts or entire landscapes) and...
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London :
Bloomsbury Publishing,
2014.
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Table of Contents:
- Cover page; Halftitle page; Series; Title page; Copyright page; Dedication; CONTENTS; LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS; PREFACE; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; Chapter 1 ANIMALS AND PEOPLE: MIRRORS AND WINDOWS; Step One: Considering the Bones; Step Two: Considering the Methods; Step 3: Considering Interpretation; Chapter 2 ANIMAL 'REVOLUTIONS'; Domestication and the Neolithic Revolution; Secondary Products Revolution; Agricultural Revolution; Summary; Chapter 3 WILD ANIMALS AND HUMAN SOCIETIES; Definitions of Hunting and the Wilderness; Sources of Evidence for Understanding Human-Wild Animal Relationships.
- Hunter-Gatherers of the Mesolithic (8000-4000 years BC)Early Farming Communities of the Neolithic (c. 4000-2500 BC) and Bronze Age (c. 2500-700 BC); Iron Age (c. 750 BC-AD 43) and Roman Periods (AD 43-410); Early and Middle Anglo-Saxon Period (AD 410-c. 850); Late Anglo-Saxon and Norman Periods (c. AD 850-1150); Medieval Period (c. AD 1150-1550); Summary; Chapter 4 ANIMAL DIASPORA AND CULTURE CHANGE; Britain: A Case Study in Animal Diaspora and Culture Change; Summary; Chapter 5 IDEAS OF LANDSCAPE; What Is Landscape and Why Study It?; Animals, People and Landscape.
- The English Park: Origins, Meaning and FunctionSummary; Chapter 6 THE CHAPTER ABOUT RITUAL; Definitions of Ritual; Live Animals and Rituals of the Life- cycle; Dead Animals in Rituals of Human Life; Summary; Chapter 7 FRIENDS, CONFIDANTS AND LOVERS; Blood Sports: Loving Animals to Death; Indivisibility and Bestiality; Companion Animals and Pets; Summary; Chapter 8 MEAT; Food Taboos and Preferences; The Rhetoric of Portions; Matters of Taste; Summary; Chapter 9 THE CONCLUSION. ANIMALS AND IDEOLOGY: PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE; Summarizing and Integrating the Data: The Limitations and Caveats.
- Human-Animal Interactions in TransitionREFERENCES; INDEX.