Pubbl/distr/stampa	Flagstaff, Ariz., : Center for Western Studies
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource
Disciplina	574.6
Soggetto topico	Ethnobiology Plant remains (Archaeology) Animal remains (Archaeology)
Soggetto genere / forma	Periodicals. series.
ISSN	2162-4496
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Periodico
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910130895103321

Autore	Lin Minghao
Pubbl/distr/stampa	Cham, Switzerland : , : Springer Nature Switzerland AG, , [2022]
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (231 pages)
Disciplina	930.1
Collana	Interdisciplinary contributions to archaeology
Soggetto topico	Animal remains (Archaeology) Cattle
ISBN	9783031155352 9783031155345
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Intro -- Preface -- Contents -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- 1.1 Cattle and Traction -- 1.1.1 Cattle -- 1.1.2 Traction -- 1.1.3 The Wider Context of Cattle Traction -- 1.1.3.1 Cattle Domestication -- 1.1.3.2 Secondary Products Revolution -- 1.2 Research History of Cattle Traction -- 1.2.1 The West -- 1.2.1.1 The Plough -- 1.2.1.2 The Cart -- 1.2.1.3 Zooarchaeological Investigation -- 1.2.2 China: A Brief Review -- 1.3 Project Design: Materials, Regions and Periods -- 1.3.1 The Role of Cattle Bones -- 1.3.2 Study Regions and Periods -- 1.4 Outline of the Book -- References -- Chapter 2: Cattle Traction in China: What We Know -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Framework of Chinese Archaeological Cultures -- 2.3 Known Scholarship for Chinese Cattle Traction -- 2.3.1 Historical Textual Documents -- 2.3.1.1 Farming -- 2.3.1.1.1 Lei and Si -- 2.3.1.1.2 Debate of the Timing of Cattle Ploughing -- 2.3.1.1.3 Development of Cattle Ploughing -- 2.3.1.2 Transport -- 2.3.1.2.1 Sledge -- 2.3.1.2.2 Cart in the Pre-Han -- 2.3.1.2.3 Cart from the Han -- 2.3.1.3 Other Harness and Management -- 2.3.2 Oracle Bone and Bronze Inscriptions -- 2.3.2.1 Farming -- 2.3.2.1.1 Lei and Si -- 2.3.2.1.2 Cattle and Plough -- 2.3.2.2 Transport -- 2.3.2.3 Other Harness and Management -- 2.3.3 Wall Pictures and Historical Paintings -- 2.3.3.1 Farming -- 2.3.3.2 Transport -- 2.3.3.3 Other Harness and Management -- 2.3.4 Excavated Artefacts and Traces -- 2.3.4.1 Farming -- 2.3.4.1.1 Lei and Si -- 2.3.4.1.2 Plough -- 2.3.4.2 Transport -- 2.3.4.2.1 Sledge -- 2.3.4.2.2 Cart -- 2.3.4.3 Other Harness and Management -- 2.4 Discussion -- 2.5 Conclusions -- 2.6 Summary -- References -- Chapter 3: Identifying Traction in Cattle Bones -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Bone Biology and Mechanics -- 3.2.1 Functions of Bone -- 3.2.2 Bone Elements -- 3.2.3 Bone Types -- 3.2.4 Development of Bone. 3.2.5 Biomechanics of Bone -- 3.2.6 Wolff's Law and the Basic Multicellular Unit (BMU) -- 3.2.7 Special Properties of Bone -- 3.2.8 Fatigue Failure and Stress Fractures in Bone -- 3.2.9 Human as a Case: Bone Remodelling and Physical Strain -- 3.3 Identifying Traction in Cattle Bones -- 3.3.1 Cattle Bone Remodelling Under Traction -- 3.3.2 Cattle Bone Deformations and Pathologies Under Traction -- 3.3.3 Skeletal Parts Under Traction -- 3.4 Summary -- References -- Chapter 4: Project Methods: Analyses of Controlled Samples for Cattle Traction Interpretation -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 The Methods of Pathological Index (PI), Pathological Index-Refined (PIr), and Morphometrics -- 4.2.1 The PI and PIr -- 4.2.2 Morphometrics -- 4.2.3 Evaluations of the PI, PIr, and Morphometrics -- 4.2.3.1 The PI, and PIr Methods -- 4.2.3.2 The Morphometrics -- 4.3 Controlled Materials -- 4.3.1 Traction Cattle Samples -- 4.3.1.1 Draught Oxen of Romanian Grey and Brown Breed -- 4.3.1.2 Draught Oxen of Jersey Breed -- 4.3.2 Non-traction Cattle Samples: Modern and Palaeolithic Groups -- 4.3.2.1 Modern Meat/Dairy Cattle -- 4.3.2.2 Palaeolithic Wild Aurochs -- 4.3.3 Ethnographic Evaluations of European and Chinese Samples -- 4.3.3.1 Loading -- 4.3.3.2 Form of Harnessing -- 4.3.3.3 Terrain -- 4.3.3.4 Shoeing -- 4.3.3.5 Annual Number of Workdays -- 4.3.3.6 Speed -- 4.3.3.7 Team Size -- 4.3.3.8 Discussion -- 4.4 Results for the PI -- 4.4.1 Non-traction Models: Modern Chinese and Romanian Meat Cattle -- 4.4.1.1 Phalanges -- 4.4.1.2 Metapodials -- 4.4.2 Discussion -- 4.4.3 Non-traction Models: Modern Meat Cattle and Palaeolithic Aurochs -- 4.4.3.1 Phalanges -- 4.4.3.2 Metapodials -- 4.4.4 Discussion -- 4.4.5 Comparative Models of Traction and Non-traction Cattle -- 4.4.5.1 Phalanges -- 4.4.5.2 Metapodials -- 4.4.6 Discussion -- 4.5 Results for the PIr. 4.5.1 Non-traction Models: Modern Chinese and Romanian Meat Cattle -- 4.5.1.1 Phalanges -- 4.5.1.2 Metapodials -- 4.5.2 Discussion -- 4.5.3 Non-traction Models: Modern Meat Cattle and Palaeolithic Aurochs -- 4.5.3.1 Phalanges -- 4.5.3.2 Metapodials -- 4.5.4 Discussion -- 4.5.5 Comparative Models of Traction and Non-traction Cattle -- 4.5.5.1 Phalanges -- 4.5.5.2 Metapodials -- 4.5.6 Discussion -- 4.6 Results for the Morphometrics -- 4.6.1 Scatterplots for Cattle Group Separation -- 4.6.2 Discussion -- 4.7 Overall Discussion -- 4.8 Summary -- References -- Chapter 5: Application of the PIr Method to Chinese Archaeological Samples for Cattle Traction -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 Archaeological Sites for the PIr Method -- 5.2.1 Erlitou Site -- 5.2.2 Daxinzhuang Site -- 5.2.3 Dinggong Site -- 5.3 The PIr Models of Chinese Late Neolithic -- 5.3.1 Cattle Bone Samples -- 5.3.2 Results -- 5.3.2.1 Phalanges -- 5.3.2.2 Metapodials -- 5.3.2.3 Discussion -- 5.3.3 Discussion: Chinese Late Neolithic -- 5.4 The PIr Models of Chinese Bronze Age -- 5.4.1 Cattle Bone Samples -- 5.4.1.1 The Erlitou Period -- 5.4.1.2 The Early Shang Dynasty -- 5.4.1.3 The Late Shang Dynasty -- 5.4.2 Results -- 5.4.2.1 The Erlitou Period -- 5.4.2.1.1 Phalanges -- 5.4.2.1.2 Metapodials -- 5.4.2.1.3 Discussion -- 5.4.2.2 The Early Shang Dynasty -- 5.4.2.2.1 Phalanges -- 5.4.2.2.2 Metapodials -- 5.4.2.2.3 Discussion -- 5.4.2.3 The Late Shang Dynasty -- 5.4.2.3.1 Phalanges -- 5.4.2.3.2 Metapodials -- 5.4.2.3.3 Discussion -- 5.4.3 Discussion: Chinese Bronze Age -- 5.5 Overall Discussion -- 5.6 Summary -- References -- Chapter 6: Application of the Morphometric Method to Chinese Archaeological Samples for Cattle Traction -- 6.1 Introduction -- 6.2 Archaeological Sites for the Morphometrics -- 6.2.1 Yanshishangcheng Site -- 6.2.2 Zhougongmiao Site -- 6.2.3 Zaoshugounao Site -- 6.2.4 Lijiayao Site. 6.2.5 Guanzhuang Site -- 6.2.6 Donglongshan Site -- 6.2.7 Anban Site -- 6.3 The Morphometric Models of Chinese Late Neolithic -- 6.3.1 Cattle Bone Samples and Results -- 6.3.2 Discussion: Chinese Late Neolithic -- 6.4 The Morphometric Models of Chinese Bronze Age -- 6.4.1 Cattle Bone Samples -- 6.4.2 Cattle Withers Height Investigation -- 6.4.3 Results -- 6.4.3.1 The Erlitou Period -- 6.4.3.2 The Early Shang Dynasty -- 6.4.3.3 The Late Shang Dynasty -- 6.4.3.4 The Western Zhou Dynasty -- 6.4.4 Discussion: Chinese Bronze Age -- 6.5 Overall Discussion -- 6.6 Summary -- References -- Chapter 7: Cattle Traction in the Making of Early Civilisations in North China -- 7.1 Introduction -- 7.2 Summary of the Book -- 7.3 Combined PIr and Morphometric Methods for Cattle Traction -- 7.3.1 Chinese Late Neolithic -- 7.3.2 Chinese Bronze Age -- 7.4 Cattle Traction in Economic-Social Contexts -- 7.4.1 Early Cattle Traction Within North China -- 7.4.2 Early Cattle Traction Beyond North China -- 7.5 Contributions and Limitations of the Book -- 7.5.1 Contributions -- 7.5.2 Limitations -- 7.6 Directions for Future Research -- References -- Appendices -- Appendix A: Detailed Information for Modern Traction Cattle -- Appendix B: Detailed Information for Modern Meat/Dairy Cattle -- Appendix C: Detailed Information for Palaeolithic Wild Aurochs -- Appendix D: Measurements of the Controlled Samples -- Appendix E: Photographs of Selected Archaeological Samples -- Index.
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910595047703321

Pubbl/distr/stampa	Oxford : , : Oxbow Books, , 2016
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (129 pages) : illustrations, maps
Disciplina	930.1/0285
Soggetto topico	Ethnoarchaeology Animal remains (Archaeology) Human-animal relationships - History Agriculture, Prehistoric Livestock - History
Soggetto genere / forma	Electronic books.
ISBN	1-78570-248-3
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Part 1. Thinking with animals -- People with animals : a perspective of ethnozooarchaeology / Lee G. Broderick -- Can anatomically-modern humans be used as analogues for Neandertal foraging patterns? / Benjamin Collins -- Killing (constructed) horses : interspecies elders, empathy and emotion, and the Pazyryk horse sacrifices / Gala Argent -- Part 2. Living with animals -- Manure : valued by farmers, under-valued by zooarchaeologists / Lee G. Broderick and Michael Wallace -- "Seasonal rhythms" of a rural Kurdish village : ethnozooarchaeological research in Bestansur, Iraq / R. Bendrey, J. Whitlam, S. Elliott, K. Rauf Aziz, R. Matthews and W. Matthews -- Canis pastoralis and Maremmano-Abruzzese : zooarchaeological and ethnographic parallels in ancient and modern livestock guardian dogs / Elan N. Love -- The killing season : ethnographic and zooarchaeological perspectives on residential mobility in Bronze Age Mongolia / Jean-Luc Houle -- Part 3. Subsisting with animals -- Ethnozooarchaeology of professional butchering in the Mahas region, Sudan / Elizabeth R. Arnold and Diane Lyons -- To fish, or not to fish? : using observations of recent hunter-gatherer fishing in the interpretation of late Pleistocene fish bone assemblages / Hannah Russ -- Reinterpreting the use of garfish (Lepisosteidae) in the archaeological record of the American Southeast / Tanya M. Peres and Aaron Deter-Wolf -- Part 4. People with animals -- People with animals : perhaps the end of the beginning? / Terry O'Connor.
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910155151003321

Pubbl/distr/stampa	Oxford, [England] : , : Oxbow Books, , 2006
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (271 p.)
Disciplina	930.10285
Collana	Proceedings of the 9th Conference of the International Council of Archaeozoology
Soggetto topico	Animal remains (Archaeology) Bones - Aging
Soggetto genere / forma	Electronic books.
ISBN	1-78570-043-X 1-78570-045-6
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Part I. New approaches to ageing and sexing -- Part II. Testig existing methods of ageing -- Part III. Studies in ageing by dental eruption and attrition -- Part IV. Applications of osteometrics ad epiphyseal fusion -- Part V. Studies in sexual dimorphism.
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910460722903321

Autore	Russell Nerissa <1957->
Pubbl/distr/stampa	Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2012
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (xii, 548 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
Disciplina	930.1
Soggetto topico	Animal remains (Archaeology) Human remains (Archaeology) Social archaeology Human-animal relationships - History Prehistoric peoples Rites and ceremonies, Prehistoric Animals and civilization
ISBN	1-139-17945-4 1-107-22510-8 1-283-37812-4 9786613378125 1-139-18906-9 1-139-01971-6 1-139-18778-3 1-139-19037-7 1-139-18315-X 1-139-18547-0
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Beyond protein and calories -- Animal symbols -- Animals in ritual -- Hunting and humanity -- Extinctions -- Domestication as a human-animal relationship -- Pets and other human-animal relationships -- Animal wealth -- Meat beyond diet -- Studying human-animal relations.
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910457219003321