The Origins and Spread of Domestic Animals in Southwest Asia and Europe

Sue Colledge, James Conolly, Keith Dobney, Katie Manning, Stephen Shennan, Sue Colledge, James Conolly, Keith Dobney, Katie Manning, Stephen Shennan

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2016
• Print ISBN:
  9781611323238
• eBook ISBN:
  9781315417639
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Evolution
• Index: Social Sciences

This volume tackles the fundamental and broad-scale questions concerning the spread of early animal herding from its origins in the Near East into Europe beginning in the mid-10th millennium BC. Original work by more than 30 leading international researchers synthesizes of our current knowledge about the origins and spread of animal domestication. In this comprehensive book, the zooarchaeological record and discussions of the evolution and development of Neolithic stock-keeping take center stage in the debate over the profound effects of the Neolithic revolution on both our biological and cultural evolution.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
• FOREWORD
• ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
• 1. THE ORIGINS AND SPREAD OF STOCK-KEEPING
• 2. ARCHAEOLOGICAL, MORPHOLOGICAL AND GENETIC APPROACHES TO PIG DOMESTICATION
• 3. INFERRING PROCESSES OF NEOLITHIC GENE-CULTURE CO-EVOLUTION USING GENETIC AND ARCHAEOLOGICAL DATA: THE CASE OF LACTASE PERSISTENCE AND DAIRYING
• 4. DIVERSE STRATEGIES: EVALUATING THE APPEARANCE AND SPREAD OF DOMESTIC CAPRINES IN THE SOUTHERN LEV ANT
• 5. THE LONG AND WINDING ROAD: UNGULATE EXPLOITATION AND DOMESTICATION IN EARLY NEOLITHIC ANATOLIA (10000-7000 CAL BC)
• 6. DOMESTICATION PROCESS AND DOMESTIC UNGULATES: NEW OBSERVATIONS FROM CYPRUS
• 7. EARLY STOCK-KEEPING IN GREECE
• 8. EARLY FARMING ADAPTATIONS OF THE NORTHEAST ADRIATIC KARST
• 9. EARLY DOMESTIC ANIMALS IN ITALY, ISTRIA, THE TYRRHENIAN ISLANDS AND SOUTHERN FRANCE
• 10. DOMESTICATION OF ANIMALS IN THE IBERIAN PENINSULA
• 11. ORIGIN OF STOCK-KEEPING AND SPREAD OF ANIMAL EXPLOITATION STRATEGIES IN THE EARLY AND MIDDLE NEOLITHIC OF THE NORTH EUROPEAN PLAIN
• 12. ANIMAL EXPLOITATION IN THE EARLY NEOLITHIC OF THE BALKANS AND CENTRAL EUROPE
• 13. ZOOARCHAEOLOGICAL DATA FROM LATE MESOLITHIC AND NEOLITHIC SITES IN SWITZERLAND (CA. 6000-3500 CAL BC)
• 14. EARLY NEOLITHIC PASTORAL TRADITIONS AND CULTURAL GROUPS IN NORTHERN FRANCE
• 15. NORTH OF THE FRONTIER: EARLY DOMESTIC ANIMALS IN NORTHERN EUROPE
• 16. ON THE NORTHWESTERN FRINGES: EARLIER NEOLITHIC SUBSISTENCE IN BRITAIN AND IRELAND AS SEEN THROUGH FAUNAL REMAINS AND STABLE ISOTOPES
• GENERAL INDEX
• INDEX OF SITE NAMES
• INDEX OF SPECIES
• INDEX OF COMMON SPECIES NAMES
• ABOUT THE EDITORS
• ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS