Anthropological approaches to zooarchaeology : complexity, colonialism, and animal transformations / / edited by D. Campana ... [et al.].

• Author: ProQuest (Firm)
• TeilnehmendeR: Campana, Douglas V.; ProQuest (Firm)
• Year of Publication: 2010
• Language: English
• Physical Description: xii, 274 p. :; ill., maps.

Table of Contents

Animals and complexity : how zooarchaeologists contribute to the study of complex society in the New and Old Worlds / Justin Lev-Tov and Susan D. deFrance -- A bird's eye view of ritual at the Cahokia Site / Lucretia S. Kelly -- The organization of animal production in an early urban center : the zooarchaeological evidence from early Bronze Age Titris Hoyuk, southeastern Turkey / Adam Allentuck and Haskel J. Greenfield -- Animal-derived artefacts at two pre-Columbian sites in the ancient savannas of central Panama : an update on their relevance to studies of social hierarchy and cultural attitudes towards animals / Richard Cooke and Maximo Jimenez -- Body parts, placements and people in an Iron Age town in Bulgaria / Sue Stallibrass -- Status and diet at the workers' town, Giza, Egypt / Richard Redding -- Chiefly fare or who's feeding the cacique? : equality in animal use at the Tibes ceremonial center, Puerto Rico / Susan D. deFrance -- A plebeian perspective on empire economies : faunal remains from Tel Miqne-Ekron, Israel / Justin Lev-Tov -- Continuity and change in faunal consumption patterns at the pre-Inka and Inka site of Yoroma, Bolivia / Jose M. Capriles, Alejandra I. Domic, and Sonia Alconini -- Living on the frontier : "Scythian" and "Celtic" animal exploitation in Iron Age northeastern Hungary / Laszlo Bartosiewicz and Erika Gal -- Archaeozoology and colonialism : an introduction / Douglas V. Campana --Craving for hunger: a zooarchaeological study at the the edge of the Spanish empire / Mariana E. De Nigris, Paula S. Palombo, and Maria X. Senatore -- Zooarchaeology in the Spanish borderlands of the American Southwest : challenges and opportunities / Diane Gifford-Gonzalez -- Animal husbandry at Pimeria Alta missions : el ganado en el sudoeste de Norteamerica / Barnet Pavao-Zuckerman -- The adoption and use of domestic animals at Zuni / Carmen Tarcan and Jonathan Driver -- "Romanizing" ancient Carthage : evidence from zooarchaeological remains / Michael MacKinnon -- Animal keeping and Roman colonization in the province of Pannonia Inferior, western Hungary / Kyra Lyublyanovics -- Zooarchaeology and colonialism in Roman Britain : evidence from Icklingham / Pam J. Crabtree -- The bone is the beast : animal amulets and ornaments in power and magic / Alice Choyke -- Skeletal manipulations of dogs at the Bronze Age site of Szazhalombatta-Foldvar in Hungary / Maria Vretemark and Sabine Sten -- Bovid skulls in southeastern European Neolithic dwellings : the case of the subterranean circular room at Promachon-Topolnica in the Strymon Valley, Greece / Katerina Trantalidou -- Symbolism of sharks for fishing-gatherer groups from the Sao Paulo coast, Brazil / Manoel M.B. Gonzalez -- Tupilak transformations : traditional ivory objects as modern souvenirs / Bonnie C. Yates and Margaret E. Sims -- The birds and animals in ancient Armenian art / Ninna Manaseryan -- The transformations of the quetzal bird / Carmen Aguilera -- Pets in pots : superstitious belief in a medieval Christian (12th-14th century) village in Hungary / Marta Daroczi-Szabo -- "Left" is "right" : the symbolism behind side choice among ancient animal sacrifices / Michael MacKinnon -- The composition and interpretation of associated bone groups from Wessex / James Morris -- Making themselves at home : the archaeology of commensal vertebrates / Terry O'Connor.