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Pigs and humans : 10,000 years of interaction /

A collection of essays focusing upon the role wild and domestic pigs have played in human societies around the world over the last 10,000 years. The 22 contributors cover a broad and diverse range of themes, grounded within the disciplines of archaeology, zoology, anthropology, and biology, as well...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Albarella, Umberto
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • PART A: EVOLUTION AND TAXONOMY
  • Current views on taxonomy and zoogeography of the genus Sus / Colin Groves
  • Current views on Sus phylogeography and pig domestication as seen through modern mtDNA studies / Greger Larson, Umberto Albarella, Keith Dobney, Peter Rowley-Conwy
  • The molecular basis for phenotypic changes during pig domestication / Leif Andersson
  • PART B: THE HISTORY OF PIG DOMESTICATION AND HUSBANDRY
  • The transition from wild boar to domestic pig in Eurasia, illustrated by a tooth developmental defect and biometrical data / Keith Dobney, Anton Ervynck, Umberto Albarella, Peter Rowley-Conwy
  • Culture, ecology, and pigs from the 5th to the 3rd millennium BC around the Fertile Crescent / Caroline Grigson
  • Hunting or management? : the status of Sus in the Jomon period in Japan / Hitomi Hongo, Tomoko Anezaki, Kyomi Yamazaki , Osamu Takahashi, Hiroki Sugawara
  • Wild boar and domestic pigs in Mesolithic and Neolithic southern Scandinavia / Peter Rowley-Conwy, Keith Dobney
  • The economic role of Sus in early human fishing communities / Marco Masseti
  • An investigation into the transition from forest dwelling pigs to farm animals in medieval Flanders, Belgium / Anton Ervynck, An Lentacker, Gundula Müldner, Mike Richards, Keith Dobney.
  • PART C: METHODOLOGICAL APPROACHES
  • Age estimation of wild boar based on molariform mandibular tooth development and its application to seasonality at the Mesolithic site of Ringkloster, Denmark / Richard Carter, Ola Magnell
  • A statistical method for dealing with isolated teeth: ageing pig teeth from Hagoshrim, Israel / Annat Haber
  • Morphometric variation between populations of recent wild boar in Israel / Goggy Davidowitz, Liora Kolska Horwitz
  • A dental microwear study of pig diet and management in Iron Age, Romano-British, Anglo-Scandinavian, and medieval contexts in England / Tom Wilkie, Ingrid Mainland, Umberto Albarella, Keith Dobney, Peter Rowley-Conwy
  • The histopathology of fluorotic dental enamel in wild boar and domestic pigs / Horst Kierdorf, Uwe Kierdorf
  • Economic and ecological reconstruction at the Classical site of Sagalassos, Turkey, using pig teeth / Sofie Vanpoucke, Bea De Cupere, Marc Waelkens.
  • PART D: ETHNOGRAPHIC STUDIES
  • Ethnoarchaeology of pig husbandry in Sardinia and Corsica / Umberto Albarella, Filippo Manconi, Jean-Denis Vigne, Peter Rowley-Conwy
  • Traditional pig butchery by the Yali people of West Papua (Irian Jaya) : an ethnographic and archaeozoological example / Jacqueline Studer, Daniel Pillonel
  • Pigs in the New Guinea Highlands : an ethnographic example / Paul Sillitoe.
  • PART E: PIGS IN RITUAL AND ART
  • Wild boar hunting in the Eastern Mediterranean from the 2nd to the 1st millennium BC / Anne-Sophie Dalix, Emmanuelle Vila
  • The pig in medieval iconography / Sarah Phillips.