Zooarchaeology
Replaced by:
9780521485296Zooarchaeology is a detailed reference manual for students and professional archaeologists interested in identifying and analysing animal remains from archaeological sites. Drawing on material from all over the world, and covering a time span from the Pleistocene to the nineteenth century AD, the emphasis is on animals whose remains inform us about many aspects of the relationships between humans and their natural and social environments, especially site formation processes, subsistence strategies, and paleoenvironments. The authors discuss suitable methods and theories for all vertebrate classes and molluscs, and include hypothetical examples to demonstrate these. There are extensive references and illustrations to help in the process of identification.
- It has been tried and tested successfully over three years in classes of graduate and undergraduate students
- Extensively illustrated and referenced and drawing on data worldwide and from different periods
- Contains a large number of hypothetical examples for use in instruction in a range of methodological issues
Reviews & endorsements
'The volume is well structured, and begins with an absorbing overview of the development of zooarchaeology … The book gives a discursive introduction, with sufficient substance to hold the attention of those with some background knowledge, whilst remaining accessible to general readers.' Antiquity
'Zooarchaeology by Reitz and Wing is the most recent addition to the Cambridge Manuals in Archaeology series. It continues the tradition of providing outstanding reference books to a diverse international community of archaeological researchers by surveying current archaeological techniques and methods …'. American Anthropologist
Product details
February 1999Hardback
9780521480697
475 pages
254 × 179 × 35 mm
1.08kg
41 tables
Replaced by 9780521485296
Table of Contents
- 1. Zooarchaeology
- 2. Zooarchaeological history and theory
- 3. Basic biology
- 4. Ecology
- 5. Disposal of faunal remains and sample recovery
- 6. Gathering primary data
- 7. Secondary data
- 8. Humans as predators
- 9. Control of animals through domestication
- 10. Evidences for past environmental conditions
- 11. Conclusion.
