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UNINA9910798459403321 |
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Bones and identity : zooarchaeological approaches to reconstructing social and cultural landscapes in Southwest Asia / / edited by Nimrod Marom [and three others] |
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Oxford, [England] ; ; Philadelphia, [Pennsylvania] : , : Oxbow Books, , 2016 |
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©2016 |
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1 online resource (419 pages) : illustrations, photographs |
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Animal remains (Archaeology) - Middle East |
Excavations (Archaeology) - Middle East |
Social archaeology - Middle East |
Landscape archaeology - Middle East |
Cultural landscapes - Middle East - History - To 1500 |
Middle East Antiquities Congresses |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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1. Paleolithic Animal Remains in the Mount Carmel Caves : A Review of the Historical and Modern Research / Reuven Yeshurun -- 2. A New Look at "on Mice and Men" : Should Commensal Species be Used as a Universal Indicator of Early Sedentism? / Miriam Belmaker and Ashley B. Brown -- 3. Subsistence Strategies in the Aceramic Neolithic at Chogha Golan, Iran / Britt M. Starkovich, Simone Riehl, Mohsen Zeidi and Nicholas J. Conard -- 4. Adoption, Intensification and Manipulation of Sheep Husbandry at Tell Halula, Syria during the Middle to Late PPNB / C. Tornero, M. Molist and M. Saña -- 5. A Taphonomic and Technological Analysis of the Butchered Animal Bone Remains from Atlit Yam, a Submerged PPNC Site off the Coast of Israel / Haskel J. Greenfield, Trent Cheney and Ehud Galili -- 6. Changes in "demand and supply" for mass killings of gazelles during the Holocene / O. Bar-Yosef -- 7. Halaf Period Animal Remains from Tell Aqab, Northeastern Syria / László Bartosiewicz -- 8. Prehistoric Molluscan Remains from |
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Tell Aqab, Northeastern Syria / Catriona Pickard -- 9. Preliminary Analysis of the Fauna from the Early Bronze Age III Neighbourhood at Tell es-Safi/Gath, Israel / Haskel J. Greenfield, Annie Brown, Itzhaq Shai and Aren M. Maeir -- 10. Bronze Age Walls and Iron Age Pits : Contextual Archaeozoology at Oymaagaç Höyük, Turkey / Günther Karl Kunst, Herbert Böhm and Rainer Maria Czichon -- 11. Every Dog has Its Day : Cynophagy, Identity and Emerging Complexity in Early Bronze Age Attica, Greece / Angelos Hadjikoumis -- 12. Human-Animal Interactions during the Harappan Period in the Ghaggar Region of Northern India : Insights from Bhirrana / Arati Deshpande-Mukherjee, Amrita Sen and L.S. Rao -- 13. Bringing to Light the Animal Bone Assemblages from the Ancient Burials of Armenia / Nina Manaseryan -- 14. "Making the Cut" : Changes in Butchering Technology and Efficiency Patterns from the Chalcolithic to Modern Arab Occupations at Tell Halif, Israel / Haskel Greenfield and Annie Brown -- 15. Class and "Romanization" in Late Roman Egypt : Issues of Identity and the Faunal Remains from the Site of Amheida in the Dakleh Oasis, Western Egypt / Pam J. Crabtree and Douglas V. Campana -- 16. Meat Consumption Patterns as an Ethnic Marker in the Late Second Temple Period : Comparing the Jerusalem City Dump and Qumran Assemblages / Ram Bouchnik -- 17. There and Back Again : A Tale of a Pilgrim Badge during the Crusader Period / Inbar Ktalav. |
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"Seventeen papers demonstrate how zooarchaeologists engage with questions of identity through culinary references, livestock husbandry practices and land use. Contributions combine hitherto unpublished zooarchaeological data from regions straddling a wide geographic expanse between Greece in the West and India in the East and spanning a time range from the latest part of the Palaeolithic to the Middle Ages. The vitality of a hands-on approach to data presentation and interpretation carried out primarily at the level of the individual site--the arena of research providing the bread and butter of zooarchaeological work conducted in southwest Asia--is demonstrated. Among the themes explored are shifting identities of late hunter-gatherers through interactions with settled agrarian societies; the management of camp sites by early complex hunter-gatherers; processes of assimilation of Roman culinary practices among Egyptian elites; and the propagation of medieval pilgrim identity through the use of seashell insignia. A wealth of new data is discussed and a wide variety of applications of analytical approaches are applied to particular case studies within the framework of social and contextual zooarchaeology. The volume constitutes the proceedings of the 11th meeting of the ICAZ Working Group-Archaeozoology of Southwestern Asia and Adjacent Areas (ASWA) [held at the University of Haifa in June 2013]"--From publisher's website. |
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UNINA9910298328003321 |
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Plants and bioenergy / / Maureen C. McCann, Marcos S. Buckeridge, Nicholas C. Carpita, editors |
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New York : , : Springer, , 2014 |
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[1st ed. 2014.] |
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1 online resource (x, 289 pages) : illustrations (some color), color maps |
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Advances in Plant Biology, , 2363-8451 ; ; 4 |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Includes bibliographical references. |
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Part I. Economics of Bioenergy -- Chapter 1. Advanced Biofuels: Economic Uncertainties, Policy Options, and Land Use Impacts -- Chapter 2. The prospects of first generation ethanol in developing countries -- Chapter 3. Can energy policy drive sustainable land use? Lessons from Biofuels Policy Development over the Last Decade -- Chapter 4. Algae Farming and its Bio-products -- Part II. Biomass Biology -- Chapter 5. Regional gene pools for restoration, conservation, and genetic improvement of prairie grasses -- Chapter 6. Mining Genetic Diversity of Sorghum as a Bioenergy Feedstock -- Chapter 7. Genetics, genomics and crop modelling: integrative approaches to the improvement of biomass willows -- Chapter 8: Xylan biosynthesis in plants, simply complex -- Chapter 9. Towards redesigning cellulose biosynthesis for improved bioenergy feedstocks -- Chapter 10. Camelina: An Emerging Oilseed Platform for Advanced Biofuels and Bio-Based Materials -- Part III. Biomass Processing -- Chapter 11. Developing novel enzyme repertoires for the efficient deconstruction of plant biomass tailored for the bioenergy industry -- Chapter 12. Using Natural Plant Cell Wall Degradation Mechanisms to Improve Second Generation Bioethanol -- Chapter 13. Lignocellulosic Biorefineries: Concepts and Possibilities -- Chapter 14. Linking Plant Biology and Pretreatment – Understanding the Structure and Organization of the Plant Cell Wall and Interactions with Cellulosic Biofuel Production -- Chapter 15. Catalytic oxidation of lignin for the production of low molecular weight aromatics -- Chapter 16. Catalytic |
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dehydration of lignocellulosic derived xylose to furfural -- Chapter 17. Perspectives in Brazil of the contribution of palm trees to biodiesel production. |
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A country's vision for developing renewable and sustainable energy resources is typically propelled by three important drivers – security, cost, and environmental impact. The U.S. currently accounts for a quarter of the world’s total oil consumption, with domestic demands necessitating – at an ever growing cost – a net import of more than 50% of the oil used in this country. At the same time, Brazil, because of its forward thinking on energy strategy, is today energy independent. As emerging economies around the world increase their petroleum use by large margins and as large fractions of that new consumption are necessarily supplied from unstable parts of the world, the inevitable repercussions on petroleum-driven economies will continue to escalate. In addition, there is an unequivocal imperative to take immediate and aggressive measures to reduce net greenhouse gas emissions by decreasing fossil fuel consumption and increasing our use of carbon-neutral or carbon-negative fuels as well as improving efficiency of fuel use. Economic growth and development worldwide depend increasingly on secure supplies of reliable, affordable, clean energy. Together with its counterpart societies, was convened the First Pan-American Congress on Plants and BioEnergy, which was held in June, 2008, in Mérida, Mexico. Sponsored by the American Society of Plant Biologists, this congress was designed to initiate Pan-American research collaborations in energy biosciences. At that congress, the organizational committee committed themselves to continue the meeting biennially, resulting in the 2nd Pan-American Congress on Plants and BioEnergy to be held with the endorsement of ASPB, July 6-10, 2010, in São Paulo, Brazil. Whereas the 1st congress covered a broad range of topics that bioenergy impacted, the second congress will focus more on the advances in plant biology: the genetic improvement of energy crop plants, their fit into regional environments, and the development of a sustainable energy agriculture. |
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