Peter Rowley-Conwy - Economic Zooarchaeology

Frontispiece: Tony Legge caught this fish in the Euphrates, near Raqqah, in 1983. He was particularly pleased with himself because several local experts had advised him that he would catch nothing in this spot. Tonys eye for water did not let him down, however: he hooked the fish on his first cast. Photo by Peter Rowley-Conwy.

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Names: Rowley-Conwy, Peter, editor. | Serjeantson, D. (Dale), editor. | Halstead, Paul, editor.

Title: Economic zooarchaeology : studies in hunting, herding and early agriculture / edited by Peter Rowley-Conwy, Dale Serjeantson and Paul Halstead.

Description: Oxford ; Havertown, PA : Oxbow Books, 2017. | Includes bibliographical references.

Identifiers: LCCN 2017002833 (print) | LCCN 2017018632 (ebook) | ISBN 9781785704468 (epub) | ISBN 9781785704475 (mobi) | ISBN 9781785704482 (pdf) | ISBN 9781785704451 (hardback)

Subjects: LCSH: Animal remains (Archaeology) | Economics, Prehistoric.

Classification: LCC CC79.5.A5 (ebook) | LCC CC79.5.A5 E29 2017 (print) | DDC 930.1/0285--dc23

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Front cover: The Cairo deer, see Ch. 33, Ikram and Bertini; Metapodials (photo by Terry OConnor).

Back cover: Tony Legge teaching bone identification in the field, at Danilo in Croatia in 2005 (photo by A.M.T. Moore).

Contents

Peter Rowley-Conwy, Dale Serjeantson and Paul Halstead

Robin Dennell

Harvey Sheldon

Andrew M. T. Moore

Charles Higham

James F. OConnell

David Jacques

A. J. Legge

A. J. Legge and C. M. Stimpson

Simon J. M. Davis

Tony Waldron

Angela Perri

A. Sebastin Muoz and Mariana Mondini

Dale Serjeantson

Paul Halstead and Valasia Isaakidou

Angelos Hadjikoumis

Rosalind E. Gillis

Pam J. Crabtree

Alan K. Outram

Peter Bogucki

Jonathan C. Driver and Shaw Badenhorst

Carlos Tornero, Marie Balasse, Jol Ughetto-Monfrin, Miquel Molist and Maria Saa

Haskel J. Greenfield

Peter Rowley-Conwy

Roger Mercer

Glynis Jones and Amy Bogaard

Richard Bradley

Mark Maltby

Sonia OConnor and Terry OConnor

Paul Croft

Suzanne E. Pilaar Birch

Ldia Colominas

Alexei Kasparov

Salima Ikram and Louise Bertini

Contributors

SHAW BADENHORST Ditsong National Museum of Natural History (former Transvaal Museum), 432 Paul Kruger St, Pretoria 0001/Department of Anthropology and Archaeology, University of South Africa, PO Box 392, UNISA 0003, South Africa.

MARIE BALASSE Archozoologie, Archobotanique: Socits, Pratiques et Environnements, UMR 7209 CNRS/MNHN. CP56. 55, rue Buffon 75005, Paris, France.

LOUISE BERTINI American University in Cairo, P. O. Box 74, Road 90, Tagammu 5, New Cairo 11825, Egypt.

SUZANNE E. PILAAR BIRCH Department of Anthropology & Department of Geography, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, USA 30602.

AMY BOGAARD Institute of Archaeology, University of Oxford, 36 Beaumont St, Oxford, OX1 2PG, UK.

RICHARD BRADLEY School of Archaeology, Geography and Environmental Science, University of Reading, PO Box 217, Whiteknights, Reading, RG6 6AH, UK.

PETER BOGUCKI School of Engineering and Applied Science, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544, USA.

LDIA COLOMINAS Institut Catal dArqueologia Clssica, Plaa den Rovellat s/n, Tarragona, 43003, Spain.

PAM CRABTREE Anthropology Department, Center for the Study of Human Origins, New York University, USA.

PAUL CROFT Lemba Archaeological Research Centre, Lemba 8260, Paphos, Cyprus.

SIMON J. M. DAVIS Zooarqueologia, Laboratrio de Arqueocincias, DGPC, Rua da Bica do Marqus 2, 1300-087 Lisbon, Portugal.

ROBIN DENNELL Department of Archaeology, University of Exeter, Streatham Campus, Northcote House, Exeter EX4 4QJ, UK.

JONATHAN DRIVER Department of Archaeology, Simon Fraser University, 8888 University Drive, Burnaby, British Columbia V5A 1S6, Canada.

ROSALIND E. GILLIS Unit Mixte de Recherche (UMR) 7209, Archozoologie, Archobotanique: Socits, Pratiques et Environnements, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Musum National dHistoire Naturelle, 75005 Paris, France.

HASKEL J. GREENFIELD University of Manitoba, Department of Anthropology/St. Pauls College, Winnipeg MB, R3T 2N2, Canada.

ANGELOS HADJIKOUMIS Marie Curie fellow at UMR 7209, Archozoologie et archobotanique, CNRS, Musum National dHistoire Naturelle, Paris, France.

PAUL HALSTEAD Dept. of Archaeology, University of Sheffield, Northgate House, West St., Sheffield S1 4ET, UK.

CHARLES HIGHAM Department of Anthropology and Archaeology, University of Otago, PO Box 56, Dunedin, New Zealand.

VALASIA ISAAKIDOU Agricultural Origins of Urban Civilisation Project, Institute of Archaeology, University of Oxford, 36 Beaumont St, Oxford, OX1 2PG, UK.

DAVID JACQUES Archaeology, University of Buckingham, Buckingham MK18 1EG, UK.

GLYNIS JONES Department of Archaeology, University of Sheffield, Northgate House, West St., Sheffield S1 4ET, UK.

ALEXEI KASPAROV Laboratory of Archaeological Technologies, Institute for History of Material Culture of Russian Academy of Sciences, Dvortsovaia emb.18, 191186 St. Petersburg, Russia.

MARK MALTBY Bournemouth University, Christchurch House, Talbot Campus, Fern Barrow, Poole BH12 5BB, UK.

ROGER MERCER School of History, Classics and Archaeology, University of Edinburgh, William Robertson Wing, Edinburgh EH8 9AG, Scotland.

MIQUEL MOLIS Seminari dArqueologia del Prxim Orient (SAPPO), Prehistory Departament, Universitat Autnoma de Barcelona, 08169 Bellaterra, Barcelona, Spain.

MARIANA MONDINI Laboratorio de Zooarqueologa y Tafonoma de Zonas ridas IDACOR-CONICET, Universidad Nacional de Crdoba, Av. H. Yrigoyen 174, 5000 Crdoba, Argentina.