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Human-elephant interactions: from past to present
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Year: 2021 Publisher: Tübingen Tübingen University Press

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In recent decades, a significant number of Pleistocene (ca. 2.6 million years–10,000 years ago) open-air and cave sites yielding elephant or mammoth bones in direct association with hominin remains and/or lithic artifacts have been discovered in Eurasia, Africa and America. Many of them show strong evidence of acquisition and processing of proboscidean carcasses by early humans, leading scientists to interpret them as “elephant butchering sites”. Indeed, proboscidean exploitation by early Homo has been proposed to have been critical for Palaeolithic human lifeways, influencing not only their subsistence, but also other aspects of early human evolution and adaptations. The nature and degree of interactions between humans and elephants comprises an important field in palaeoanthropological studies since decades, but many questions remain still unanswered or partially explored. By bringing together research papers from the fields of Palaeolithic Archaeology, Palaeoanthropology, Palaeontology, Zooarchaeology, Geology, Ethnography and Nutrition Studies, the book systematically covers a diverse array of perspectives on elephant-human interactions across the world from the Pleistocene times until today. The volume includes 19 contributions and is organized into four thematic sections: 1) The Palaeolithic record, 2) A view of the evidence, 3) Elephants in past human nutrition, and 4) Ethnography – Human-elephant interactions in recent Africa. Collectively, the volume not only showcases the current state of knowledge, but also intends to provoke renewed interest for current and further research, and build an interdisciplinary and synthetic understanding of the significance of proboscideans throughout human evolution.


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Au fil de l'os : Economie et societe chez les Remes et les Suessions par le prisme de l'archeozoologie
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ISBN: 9789088903625 908890362X 9789088903618 9088903611 Year: 2016 Publisher: Leiden, [The Netherlands] : Sidestone Press,

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Archaeologies of animal movement : animals on the move
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ISBN: 3030687449 3030687430 9783030687434 Year: 2021 Publisher: Cham, Switzerland : Springer,

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"With the recent development of fine-tuned methodologies such as stable isotope analysis and physical activity assessment, the potential to understand how animals moved about in the past has increased substantially. While the chapters in the volume utilize a wide range of archaeological methods, they are all united by an emphasis on understanding animal activity and mobility patterns as something that has a major impact on human societies and human-animal relationships. Chapters in this volume show that animal activity patterns provide information on multiple aspects of human-animal relationships, including analysis of animal management practices, transhumance, global and regional trade networks, and animal domestication"--Page 4 of cover.


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Land and people : papers in memory of John G. Evans
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ISBN: 1782973605 1782973583 9781782973584 9781782973607 9781842173732 1842173731 Year: 2009 Publisher: Oxford ; Oakville : Oxbow Books,

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This volume is derived, in concept, from a conference held in honour of John Evans by the School of History and Archaeology and The Prehistoric Society at Cardiff University in March 2006. It brings together papers that address themes and landscapes on a variety of levels. They cover geographical, methodological and thematic areas that were of interest to, and had been studied by, John Evans. The volume is divided into five sections, which echo themes of importance in British prehistory. They include papers on aspects of environmental archaeology, experiments and philosophy; new research on th


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Care or neglect? : evidence of animal disease in archaeology : proceedings of the 6th meeting of the Animal Palaeopathology Working Group of the International Council for Archaeozoology (ICAZ), Budapest, Hungary, 2016
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ISBN: 1785708929 1785708902 9781785708909 9781785708923 9781785708916 1785708910 9781785708893 1785708899 Year: 2018 Publisher: Oxford ; Philadelphia : Oxbow Books,

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Freshwater Fish in England : a Social and Cultural History of Coarse Fish from Prehistory to the Present Day.
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ISBN: 1789251133 9781789251135 9781789251128 1789251125 178925115X Year: 2018 Publisher: Oxford ; Philadelphia : Oxbow books,

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Handleiding voor de determinatie van harde dierlijke materialen : bot, gewei, ivoor, hoorn, schildpad, balein en hoef
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ISBN: 9789089640239 9789048506552 9089640231 9048506557 9786612171437 1282171437 9781282171435 661217143X Year: 2008 Publisher: Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press,

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A detailed analysis of the determination process of various materials made of animal origin


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اليمن موطن الآثار
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ISBN: 2909194671 2705339396 Year: 2020 Publisher: Paris : Centre français de recherche de la péninsule Arabique,

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قبل خمسة وأربعون عاماً، خرجت اليمن من فترة طويلة من الصراع والعزلة. في الميدان الثقافي، صاحبت هذه النهضة مكونًا أثريًا مهمًا، ركزت في البداية على العصور القديمة، وهي الحضارة العربية الجنوبية، ثم امتدت سريعا إلى عصور ما قبل التاريخ والإسلامية. يتتبع هذا الكتاب أكثر من أربعين عاماً من البحوث الأثرية الفرنسية، نُسقت ابتداءً من عام 1982 من قِبَل المركز الفرنسي للدراسات اليمنية، الذي أصبح المركز الفرنسي للأثار والعلوم الاجتماعية بصنعاء. ورغم التوقف الوحشي بسبب الصراعات الأخيرة، إلا أن الاكتشافات التي حققتها الفرق العديدة من علماء الآثار والمؤرخينتجعل من الممكن تتبع المراحل العظيمة لتطور بلد أسطوري، بلد ملكة سبأ. هذه الأرض شهدت ظهور الممالك والمدن التي كان تطورها نتيجة لاتقان متقدم للزراعةالمروية وزيادة في تجارةالقوافل ثم التجارة البحرية للراتنجات العطرية، والخيول والبن. من خلال الطابع الأثري لهندستها المعمارية، وصقل فنونها، والسحر الذي تبذله نقوشها، تبدو الحضارة العربية الجنوبية (جنوب شبه الجزيرة العربية)مختلفة تمامًا عن الصورة الخاطئة لصحراء عربيةيجوبها البدو الوحيدون. Il y a quarante-cinq ans, le Yémen est sorti d'une longue période de conflits et d'isolement. Dans le domaine culturel, cette renaissance s'est accompagnée d'un important volet archéologique, d'abord centré sur l'époque antique, celle de la civilisation sudarabique, puis rapidement étendu aux périodes préhistorique et islamique. Cet ouvrage retrace plus de quarante années de recherches archéologiques françaises, coordonnées à partir de 1982 par le Centre français d'Etudes yéménites, devenu le Centre français d'Archéologie et de Sciences sociales de Sanaa. Bien que brutalement stoppées par les conflits récents, les découvertes effectuées par les nombreuses équipes d'archéologues et d'historiens permettent de retracer les grandes étapes de l'évolution d'un pays légendaire, le pays de la reine de Saba. Cette terre a vu l'émergence de royaumes et de cités dont le développement fut le résultat d'une maitrise avancée de l'agriculture irriguée et de l'accroissement du commerce caravanier puis maritime des…


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Trends and traditions in southeastern zooarchaeology
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ISBN: 0813050103 0813048737 9780813048734 9780813049274 081304927X Year: 2014 Publisher: Gainesville : University Press of Florida,

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This volume is a synthesis of zooarchaeology's history in the southeast, exploring the role of animals in social and economic development and examining the current trends and methodologies used.


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Humans, animals, and the craft of slaughter in archaeo-historic societies
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ISBN: 9781108553544 9781108428804 9781108447317 1108428800 1108575293 1108553540 1108581633 Year: 2019 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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In this book, Krish Seetah uses butchery as a point of departure for exploring the changing historical relationships between animal utility, symbolism, and meat consumption. Seetah brings together several bodies of literature - on meat, cut marks, craftspeople, and the role of craft in production - that have heretofore been considered in isolation from one another. Focusing on the activity inherent in butcher, he describes the history of knowledge that typifies the craft. He also provides anthropological and archaeological case studies which showcase examples of butchery practices in varied contexts that are seldom identified with zooarchaeological research. Situating the relationship between practice, practitioner, material and commodity, this imaginative study offers new insights into food production, consumption, and the craft of cuisine.

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