Here are details of a recently published collection of papers, with something for everyone……..
Economic Zooarchaeology: Studies in Hunting, Herding and Early Agriculture<http://www.oxbowbooks.com/oxbow/economic-zooarchaeology.html>. Peter Rowley-Conwy, Dale Serjeantson and Paul Halstead (Editors). Oxbow Books. ISBN: 9781785704451.
This collection of papers in honour of Tony Legge who sadly died in 2013 has just been published. The book has the title Economic Zooarchaeology, a title chosen to reflect Tony’s own theoretical approach, but it in fact covers a wider array of topics of zooarchaeological as well as general archaeological interest.
The 33 papers present aspects of method and theory, bone identification, human palaeopathology, prehistoric animal utilisation in South America and the study of dog cemeteries. The long-running controversy over the milking of animals and the use of dairy products is discussed by several authors, as is the ecological impact of hunting by farmers, with studies from Serbia and Syria. For Britain, coverage extends from Mesolithic Star Carr, via the origins of agriculture and the farmers of Lismore Fields, through considerations of the Neolithic and Bronze Age. Outside Britain, papers discuss Neolithic subsistence in Cyprus and Croatia, Iron Age Spain, Medieval and Post-Medieval animal utilisation in northern Russia, the identification of a corncrake lure and the claimed finding a a modern red deer skeleton in Egypt’s Eastern Desert.
The contributors are: Robin Dennell, Harvey Sheldon, Andrew M. T. Moore, Charles Higham, James F. O’Connell, David Jacques, C. M. Stimpson, Simon J. M. Davis, Tony Waldron, Angela Perri, Sebastián Muñoz and Mariana Mondini, Dale Serjeantson, Paul Halstead and Valasia Isaakidou, Angelos Hadjikoumis, Rosalind E. Gillis, Pam J. Crabtree, Alan K. Outram, Jonathan C. Driver and Shaw Badenhorst, Carlos Tornero and colleagues, Haskel J. Greenfield, Peter Rowley-Conwy, Roger Mercer, Glynis Jones and Amy Bogaard, Richard Bradley, Mark Maltby, Sonia and Terry O’Connor, Paul Croft, Suzanne E. Pilaar Birch, Lídia Colominas, Alexei Kasparov and Salima Ikram and Louise Bertini. There is also a paper by Tony Legge himself, with the research he was engaged on when he fell ill.
Dale Serjeantson
Visiting Fellow
Archaeology
University of Southampton
SO17 1BF
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