Archaeology  /  Zoology & Archaeozoology
EAA 174: Provisioning Ipswich Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 76
ISBN: 9780956874764
Pub Date: 10 Apr 2021
Series: East Anglian Archaeology Monograph
Illustrations: 37
Description:
This volume presents the results of the zooarchaeological analysis of animal bones that were recovered from sixteen sites in Ipswich between 1974 and 1988. The focus of the study is on the animal bones from Middle Saxon (700-850/880), Early Late Saxon (850/880-920), Middle Late Saxon (920-1000) and Early Medieval (1000-1150) sites that were part of the Origins of Ipswich project.The faunal assemblages from all four periods were composed primarily of cattle, caprines (sheep and goats), pigs, and domestic chickens.
Themes in Old World Zooarchaeology Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 224
ISBN: 9781789255348
Pub Date: 15 Mar 2021
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Illustrations: B/W
Description:
This new collection of papers from leading experts provides an overview of cutting-edge research in Old World zooarchaeology. The research presented here spans various areas across Europe, Western Asia and North Africa – from the Mediterranean to the Atlantic. Several chapters focus on Iberia, but the eastern Mediterranean and Britain are also featured.
RRP: £60.00
The Wandering Herd Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 312
ISBN: 9781911188797
Pub Date: 15 Feb 2021
Imprint: Windgather Press
Illustrations: B/w and colour
Description:
The British countryside is on the brink of change. With the withdrawal of EU subsidies, threats of US-style factory farming and the promotion of ‘rewilding’ initiatives, never before has so much uncertainty and opportunity surrounded our landscape. How we shape our prospective environment can be informed by bygone practice, as well as through engagement with livestock and landscapes long since vanished.
RRP: £34.99
Making One's Way in the World Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 320
ISBN: 9781789254020
Pub Date: 31 Jan 2020
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Description:
The book draws on the evidence of landscape archaeology, palaeoenvironmental studies, ethnohistory and animal tracking to address the neglected topic of how we identify and interpret past patterns of movement in the landscape. It challenges the pessimism of previous generations which regarded prehistoric routes such as hollow ways as generally undatable. The premise is that archaeologists tend to focus on ‘sites’ while neglecting the patterns of habitual movement that made them part of living landscapes.
Creatures of Earth, Water and Sky Cover Creatures of Earth, Water and Sky Cover
Format: 
Pages: 310
ISBN: 9789088907715
Pub Date: 22 Sep 2019
Imprint: Sidestone Press
Illustrations: 125fc/75bw
Pages: 310
ISBN: 9789088907722
Pub Date: 22 Sep 2019
Imprint: Sidestone Press
Illustrations: 125fc/75bw
Description:
Ancient Egyptians always had an intense and complex relationship with animals in daily life as well as in religion. Despite the fact that research on this relationship has been a topic of study, gaps in our knowledge still remain. This volume presents well over 30 contributions that explore Human-Animal relationships from the Predynastic to the Roman period.
Bestiarium Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 286
ISBN: 9788869771248
Pub Date: 08 Jun 2018
Description:
The human-animal relationship has always been characterized by a wide net of interactions and exchanges. By providing an overview of the concept of animality - and of the several meanings attached to it - this book aims at rethinking the real nature of this notion, towards a new definition of both the human and the animal. The authors highlight the need to overcome the traditional tendency to read the animal merely as a symbol, a metaphor or an allegory, whose only purpose is that of representing and negotiating human power relations of race, class, and gender.
Care or Neglect? Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 300
ISBN: 9781785708893
Pub Date: 31 Jan 2018
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Description:
Animals have always been integral to culture. Their interaction with humans has intensified since the onset of domestication resulting in higher incidences of animal disease due to human intervention. At the same time, human care has counter-balanced pressures of natural selection, reducing morbidity among wild animals.
Narwhal Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 264
ISBN: 9780996748018
Pub Date: 23 Jan 2018
Imprint: International Polar Institute
Illustrations: 264 colour illus.
Description:
Few animals on the planet inspire the sense of wonder evoked by the narwhal. The ‘Arctic unicorn’ is everyone’s version of “awesome” and “cool.” Explorers, aristocrats, artists and scientists celebrate this elusive whale and its extraordinary tusk.
Barely Surviving or More than Enough? Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 298
ISBN: 9789088904769
Pub Date: 15 Dec 2017
Imprint: Sidestone Press
Illustrations: 19fc/82bw
Description:
How people produced or acquired their food in the past is one of the main questions in archaeology. Everyone needs food to survive, so the ways in which people managed to acquire it forms the very basis of human existence. Farming was key to the rise of human sedentarism.
The Age of the Horse Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 432
ISBN: 9780802126511
Pub Date: 31 May 2017
Imprint: Atlantic Books
Illustrations: b/w illus
Description:
Man has always been fascinated by Equus caballus, recasting horse power into many forms: a hunk of meat, an industrial and agricultural machine, a luxury good, a cherished dancer, a comrade in arms and a symbol of a mythical past. From the wild tarpans sought by the Nazis to jade-laden treasure steeds in Ancient China, broken-down nags recycled into sausages and furniture stuffing, stallions that face fighting bulls and brewery horses that charmed the founder of the Sikh Empire, The Age of the Horse knits the history of the horse into that of humans, through revolution, war, social change and uneasy peace. It also uncovers new roles for the horse in the twenty-first century as a tool in the fight against climate change and as a therapist for soldiers damaged in unwinnable conflicts.
RRP: £20.00
Economic Zooarchaeology Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 296
ISBN: 9781785704451
Pub Date: 26 May 2017
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Illustrations: b/w
Description:
Economic archaeology is the study of how past peoples exploited animals and plants, using as evidence the remains of those animals and plants. The animal side is usually termed zooarchaeology, the plant side archaeobotany. What distinguishes them from other studies of ancient animals and plants is that their ultimate aim is to find out about human behaviour – the animal and plant remains are a means to this end.
Mammoth Cave Curiosities Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 264
ISBN: 9780813169255
Pub Date: 24 Feb 2017
Illustrations: 49 b/w photos
Description:
Sir Elton John, blind fish, the original Twinkie, President Ronald Reagan's Secret Service detail, and mummies don't usually come up in the same conversation -- unless you're at Mammoth Cave National Park! Home to the earth's longest known cave system, this UNESCO World Heritage Site is one of the oldest tourist attractions in North America. Although this remarkable place has been immortalized in works ranging from Herman Melville's Moby Dick to H.
Archaeozoology of the Near East 9 Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 464
ISBN: 9781782978442
Pub Date: 17 Feb 2017
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Illustrations: b/w and colour illustrations
Description:
This two part volume brings together over 60 specialists to present 31 papers on the latest research into archaeozoology of the Near East. The papers are wide-ranging in terms of period and geographical coverage: from Palaeolithic rock shelter assemblages in Syria to Byzantine remains in Palestine and from the Caucasus to Cyprus. Papers are grouped into thematic sections examining patterns of Palaeolithic and Neolithic subsistence in northern Mesopotamia, Anatolia and the Iranian plateau; Palaeolithic to Neolithic faunal remains from Armenia; animal exploitation in Bronze Age urban sites; new evidence concerning pastoralism, nomadism and mobility; aspects of domestication and animal exploitation in the Arabian peninsula; several case studies on ritual animal deposits; and specific analyses of patterns of animal exploitation at urban sites in Turkey, Palestine and Jordan.
RRP: £70.00
Egyptian Bioarchaeology Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 248
ISBN: 9789088903854
Pub Date: 15 Jan 2017
Imprint: Sidestone Press
Illustrations: 46bw/45fc
Description:
Although the bioarchaeology (study of biological remains in an archaeological context) of Egypt has been documented in a desultory way for many decades, it is only recently that it has become an inherent part of excavations in Egypt. This volume consists of a series of essays that explore how ancient plant, animal, and human remains should be studied, and how, when they are integrated with texts, images, and artefacts, they can contribute to our understanding of the history, environment, and culture of ancient Egypt in a holistic manner. Topics covered in this volume relating to human remains include analyses of royal, elite and poor cemeteries of different eras, case studies on specific mummies, identification of different diseases in human remains, an overview of the state of palaeopathology in Egypt, how to analyse burials to establish season of death, the use of bodies to elucidate life stories, the potential of visceral remains in identifying individuals as well as diseases that they might have had, and a protocol for studying mummies.
Behaviour Behind Bones Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 350
ISBN: 9781785705717
Pub Date: 15 Nov 2016
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Illustrations: 265 b/w figs
Description:
This book is the first in a series of volumes which form the published proceedings of the 9th meeting of the International Council of Archaeozoology (ICAZ), held in Durham in 2002. The 35 papers present a series of case studies from around the world. They stretch beyond the standard zooarchaeological topics of economy and ecology, and consider how zooarchaeological research can contribute to our understanding of human behaviour and social systems.
Colonisation, Migration, and Marginal Areas Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 128
ISBN: 9781785705151
Pub Date: 15 Nov 2016
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Series: Proceedings of the 9th ICAZ Conference
Description:
Human migration tends to involve more than the odd suitcase or two - we often carry other organisms on our travels, some are deliberately transported, others move by accident. This volume of 12 papers offers a zooarchaeological approach to questions surrounding the nature and extent of human colonisation and migration, and the adaptation of humans to new and sometimes extreme or challenging environments. The volume is divided into two parts: Part 1 takes up the theme of Human and Animal Migration and Colonisation.