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Author Colledge, Sue.

Title Origins and Spread of Domestic Animals in Southwest Asia and Europe.

Publication Info. Walnut Creek : Left Coast Press, 2013.

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Description 1 online resource (355 pages).
Physical Medium polychrome
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Series UNIV COL LONDON INST ARCH PUB
UNIV COL LONDON INST ARCH PUB.
Contents List of Illustrations; Foreword -- Stephen Shennan; Acknowledgements; 1. The Origins and Spread of Stock-Keeping -- Keith Dobney, Sue Colledge, James Conolly, Katie Manning, Joris Peters and Stephen Shennan; 2. Archaeological, Morphological, and Genetic Approaches to Pig Domestication -- Linus Girdland-Flink and Greger Larson; 3. Inferring Processes of Neolithic Gene-Culture Co-Evolution Using Genetic and Archaeological Data: The Case of Lactase Persistence and Dairying -- Pascale Gerbault, Ruth Bollongino, Joachim Burger and Mark G. Thomas.
4. Diverse Strategies: Evaluating the Appearance and Spread of Domestic Caprines in the Southern Levant -- Louise Martin and Yvonne Edwards5. The Long and Winding Road: Ungulate Exploitation and Domestication in Early Neolithic Anatolia (10000-7000 CAL BC) -Joris Peters, Hijlke Buitenhuis, Gisela Grupe, Klaus Schmidt and Nadja Pöllath; 6. Domestication Process and Domestic Ungulates: New Observations from Cyprus -- Jean-Denis Vigne; 7. Early Stock-keeping in Greece -- Paul Halstead and Valasia Isaakidou.
8. Early Farming Adaptations of the Northeast Adriatic Karst -- Clive Bonsall, Dimitrij Mlekuž, László Bartosiewicz and Catriona Pickard9. Early Domestic Animals in Italy, Istria, the Tyrrhenian Islands and Southern France -- Peter Rowley-Conwy, Lionel Gourichon, Daniel Helmer and Jean-Denis Vigne; 10. Domestication of Animals in the Iberian Peninsula -- Maria Saña; 11. Origin of Stock-keeping and Spread of Animal Exploitation Strategies in the Early and Middle Neolithic of the North European Plain -- Arkadiusz Marciniak.
12. Animal Exploitation in the Early Neolithic of the Balkans and Central Europe -- Katie Manning, Barbara Stopp, Sue Colledge, Sean Downey, James Conolly, Keith Dobney and Stephen Shennan13. Zooarchaeological Data from Late Mesolithic and Neolithic Sites in Switzerland (CA. 6000-3500 CAL BC) -- Jörg Schibler; 14. Early Neolithic Pastoral Traditions and Cultural Groups in Northern France -- Rose-Marie Arbogast and Christian Jeunesse; 15. North of the Frontier: Early Domestic Animals in Northern Europe -- Peter Rowley-Conwy.
16. On the Northwestern Fringes: Earlier Neolitihic Subsistence in Britain and Ireland as seen through Faunal Remains and Stable Isotopes -- Rick SchultingGeneral Index; Index of Site Names; Index of Species; Index of Common Species Names; About the Editors; About the Contributors.
Summary This volume tackles the fundamental and broad-scale questions concerning the spread of early animal herding from its origins in the Near East into Europe beginning in the mid-10th millennium BC. Original work by more than 30 leading international researchers synthesizes of our current knowledge about the origins and spread of animal domestication. In this comprehensive book, the zooarchaeological record and discussions of the evolution and development of Neolithic stock-keeping take center stage in the debate over the profound effects of the Neolithic revolution on both our biological and.
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Subject Domestic animals -- Europe -- History.
Domestic animals.
Europe.
History.
Domestic animals -- Middle East -- History.
Middle East.
Livestock -- Europe -- History.
Livestock.
Livestock -- Middle East -- History.
Domestic animals -- Origin.
Domestic animals -- Origin.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Added Author Conolly, James.
Dobney, Keith.
Manning, Katie.
Shennan, Stephen.
Other Form: Print version: Colledge, Sue. Origins and Spread of Domestic Animals in Southwest Asia and Europe. Walnut Creek : Left Coast Press, ©2013 9781611323221
ISBN 9781611323245 (electronic book)
161132324X (electronic book)