Pigs and humans : 10,000 years of interaction / edited by Umberto Albarella [and others]
A collection of essays focusing upon the role wild and domestic pigs have played in human societies around the world over the last 10,000 years. The 22 contributors cover a broad and diverse range of themes, grounded within the disciplines of archaeology, zoology, anthropology, and biology, as well...
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2007.
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Table of Contents:
- List of figures; List of tables; List of authors; Introduction; PART A: EVOLUTION AND TAXONOMY; 1. Current views on taxonomy and zoogeography of the genus Sus; 2. Current views on Sus phylogeography and pig domestication as seen through modern mtDNA studies; 3. The molecular basis for phenotypic changes during pig domestication; PART B: THE HISTORY OF PIG DOMESTICATION AND HUSBANDRY; 4. The transition from wild boar to domestic pig in Eurasia, illustrated by a tooth developmental defect and biometrical data.
- 5. Culture, ecology, and pigs from the 5th to the 3rd millennium BC around the Fertile Crescent6. Hunting or management? The status of Sus in the Jomon period in Japan; 7. Wild boar and domestic pigs in Mesolithic and Neolithic southern Scandinavia; 8. The economic role of Sus in early human fishing communities; 9. An investigation into the transition from forest dwelling pigs to farm animals in medieval Flanders, Belgium; PART C: METHODOLOGICAL APPROACHES.
- 10. Age estimation of wild boar based on molariform mandibular tooth development and its application to seasonality at the Mesolithic site of Ringkloster, Denmark11. A statistical method for dealing with isolated teeth: ageing pig teeth from Hagoshrim, Israel; 12. Morphometric variation between populations of recent wild boar in Israel; 13. A dental microwear study of pig diet and management in Iron Age, Romano-British, Anglo-Scandinavian, and medieval contexts in England; 14. The histopathology of fluorotic dental enamel in wild boar and domestic pigs.
- 15. Economic and ecological reconstruction at the Classical site of Sagalassos, Turkey, using pig teethPART D: ETHNOGRAPHIC STUDIES; 16. Ethnoarchaeology of pig husbandry in Sardinia and Corsica; 17. Traditional pig butchery by the Yali people of West Papua (Irian Jaya): an ethnographic and archaeozoological example; 18. Pigs in the New Guinea Highlands: an ethnographic example; PART E: PIGS IN RITUAL AND ART; 19. Wild boar hunting in the Eastern Mediterranean from the 2nd to the 1st millennium BC; 20. The pig in medieval iconography; Glossary; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; L; M; N; O; P; R.
- ST; U; Z; References.