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Animal sacrifice --- Animals, Fossil --- Animal remains (Archaeology) --- Human-animal relationships --- Animal-human relationships --- Animal-man relationships --- Animals and humans --- Human beings and animals --- Man-animal relationships --- Relationships, Human-animal --- Animals --- Archaeozoology --- Zooarchaeology --- Zoology in archaeology --- Archaeology --- Bones --- Animal paleopathology --- Animal fossils --- Animals, Antediluvian --- Animals, Prehistoric --- Antediluvian animals --- Fauna, Prehistoric --- Prehistoric animals --- Prehistoric fauna --- Fossils --- Sacrifice --- Methodology --- Europe --- Antiquities.

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This is the first book to provide a systematic overview of social zooarchaeology, which takes a holistic view of human-animal relations in the past. Until recently, archaeological analysis of faunal evidence has primarily focused on the role of animals in the human diet and subsistence economy. This book, however, argues that animals have always played many more roles in human societies: as wealth, companions, spirit helpers, sacrificial victims, totems, centerpieces of feasts, objects of taboos, and more. These social factors are as significant as taphonomic processes in shaping animal bone assemblages. Nerissa Russell uses evidence derived from not only zooarchaeology, but also ethnography, history and classical studies, to suggest the range of human-animal relationships and to examine their importance in human society. Through exploring the significance of animals to ancient humans, this book provides a richer picture of past societies.

Animal remains (Archaeology) --- Human-animal relationships --- Human remains (Archaeology) --- Prehistoric peoples --- Social archaeology --- Cavemen (Prehistoric peoples) --- Early man --- Man, Prehistoric --- Prehistoric archaeology --- Prehistoric human beings --- Prehistoric humans --- Prehistory --- Skeletal remains (Archaeology) --- Archaeozoology --- Zooarchaeology --- Zoology in archaeology --- History --- Archaeology --- Human beings --- Antiquities, Prehistoric --- Human skeleton --- Primate remains (Archaeology) --- Bones --- Animal paleopathology --- Methodology --- Bioarchaeology --- Social archaeology. --- Human-animal relationships. --- Animal-human relationships --- Animal-man relationships --- Animals and humans --- Human beings and animals --- Man-animal relationships --- Relationships, Human-animal --- Animals --- Prehistoric peoples. --- Rites and ceremonies, Prehistoric. --- Animals and civilization. --- Civilization and animals --- Civilization --- Prehistoric rites and ceremonies --- History. --- Primitive societies --- Social Sciences --- Archeology

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The stone tools and fossil bones from the earliest archaeological sites in Africa have been used over the past fifty years to create models that interpret how early hominins lived, foraged, behaved and communicated and how early and modern humans evolved. In this book, an international team of archaeologists and primatologists examines early Stone Age tools and bones and uses scientific methods to test alternative hypotheses that explain the archaeological record. By focusing on both lithics and faunal records, this volume presents the most holistic view to date of the archaeology of human origins.

Tools, Prehistoric. --- Human evolution. --- Social evolution. --- Fossil hominids. --- Human remains (Archaeology) --- Animal remains (Archaeology) --- Outils préhistoriques --- Homme --- Evolution sociale --- Homme fossile --- Restes humains (Archéologie) --- Restes d'animaux (Archéologie) --- Evolution --- Archaeozoology --- Zooarchaeology --- Zoology in archaeology --- Archaeology --- Bones --- Animal paleopathology --- Skeletal remains (Archaeology) --- Human skeleton --- Primate remains (Archaeology) --- Early man --- Fossil hominins --- Fossil man --- Hominids, Fossil --- Hominins, Fossil --- Human fossils --- Primates, Fossil --- Paleoanthropology --- Cultural evolution --- Cultural transformation --- Culture, Evolution of --- Culture --- Social change --- Evolution (Biology) --- Physical anthropology --- Evolutionary psychology --- Human beings --- Implements, Prehistoric --- Implements, utensils, etc., Prehistoric --- Prehistoric implements --- Prehistoric tools --- Methodology --- Origin --- Bioarchaeology --- Social Sciences --- Archeology