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.<BR /><BR /> <BR /><BR /> <BR /><BR /> <a href="https://knowinganimals.libsyn.com/episode-198-aurochs-and- zooarchaeology-with-lizzie-wright" target="_blank">Author Interview</a>
Author(s): Elizabeth Wright, Catarina Ginja
Series: Archaeobiology, 4
Publisher: Lockwood Press
Year: 2022
Language: English
Pages: 364
City: Columbus
Cover
half title page
Series Page
Title page
LoC data
Table of Contents
List of Figures
LIST OF TABLES
EDITOR BIOGRAPHIES
LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS
PREFACE
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
FOREWORD
INTRODUCTION
Section 1:Prehistoric Human-Cattle Interactions: Aurochs Hunting and Early Husbandry
The Aurochs in the European Pleistocene and Early Holocene
The Cattle of Ludwinowo 7
Origin and Diffusion of Cattle Herding in Northeastern Africa
A Potential Early Cattle-Based Faunal Economy from the Indus Valley Civilization
Section 2: Historical Improvementand Intensification
On the Improvement of Cattle (Bos taurus) in the Cities of Roman Lusitania
Change and Regionalism in British Cattle Husbandry in the Iron Age and Roman Period
Cattle Husbandry in Late- and Postmedieval England
An Archaeogenetics Study of Cattle Bones from Seventeenth Century Carnide, Lisbon, Portugal
Section 3: Symbolic and Ritual Importance
Bison and Aurochs, Emblematic Figures of theUpper Paleolithic in Southwestern Europe
Emerging Inequalities at Animal Farm
Cattle for the Ancestors at Neolithic Çatalhöyük, Turkey
The Bovine Deposits from the Chalcolithic Ditched Enclosure of Camino de las Yeseras (Madrid, Spain)
Section 4: Socio-Political Importance
Ethnoarchaeology of Cattle and Humans among Selected Communities in Manicaland, Eastern Zimbabwe
Cattle and People in China
Cattle, Yaks, Traction, and the Bronze Age Spread of Pastoralism into the Mongolian Steppe
Index
