Cattle and People: Interdisciplinary Approaches to an Ancient Relationship
Synopsis
This volume originates in a conference session that took place at the 2018 International Council of Archaeozoology conference in Ankara, Turkey, entitled "Humans and Cattle: Interdisciplinary Perspectives to an Ancient Relationship." The aim of the session was to bring together zooarchaeologists and their colleagues from various other research fields working on human cattle interactions over time. The contributions in this volume reflect well the breadth of work being undertaken on the ancient relationship between humans and cattle across the continents of Europe, Africa and Asia, and from the late Pleistocene to postmedieval period. Almost all involve the study of archaeological cattle remains and use different zooarchaeological methods, but the combination of these approaches with that of ethnography, isotopes and genetics is also featured.
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Chapters
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Front Matter
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The Aurochs in the European Pleistocene and Early HoloceneOrigins, Evidence and Body Size
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The Cattle of Ludwinowo 7Death, Dinner, and Deposition in the Linearbandkeramik Culture
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Origin and Diffusion of Cattle Herding in Northeastern Africa
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A Potential Early Cattle-Based Faunal Economy from the Indus Valley CivilizationEvidence from the Harappan Settlement of Bhirrana in Northern India
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On the Improvement of Cattle (Bos taurus) in the Cities of Roman LusitaniaSome Preliminary Results
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Change and Regionalism in British Cattle Husbandry in the Iron Age and Roman PeriodAn Osteometric Approach
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Cattle Husbandry in Late- and Postmedieval EnglandA Zooarchaeological Investigation of the Relationship between Town and Country
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An Archaeogenetics Study of Cattle Bones from Seventeenth Century Carnide, Lisbon, Portugal
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Bison and Aurochs, Emblematic Figures of the Upper Paleolithic in Southwestern Europe
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Emerging Inequalities at Animal FarmTracing the Symbolic Use of Cattle from the Late Neolithic to the Middle Bronze Age in Southern Portugal
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Cattle for the Ancestors at Neolithic Çatalhöyük, Turkey
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The Bovine Deposits from the Chalcolithic Ditched Enclosure of Camino de las Yeseras (Madrid, Spain)
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Ethnoarchaeology of Cattle and Humans among Selected Communities in Manicaland, Eastern Zimbabwe
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Cattle and People in ChinaFrom the Neolithic to the Present
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Cattle, Yaks, Traction, and the Bronze Age Spread of Pastoralism into the Mongolian Steppe
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Index
