Animal Husbandry and Hunting in the Central and Western Balkans Through Time

Nemanja Marković, Jelena Bulatović, Nemanja Marković, Jelena Bulatović

• Publisher: Archaeopress Archaeology
• Year: 2020
• Print ISBN: 9781789696936
• eBook ISBN: 9781789696943
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Zoology
• Index: Social Sciences

Herding and hunting, along with farming, represented the economic basis of subsistence of communities in the past. The strategies of animal husbandry and hunting were diverse and different between communities, whilst they also changed over time. The differences and variations were sometimes caused by local or regional environmental conditions, but were also the result of social, cultural, political, and even religious factors. Animal Husbandry and Hunting in the Central and Western Balkans Through Time brings new results of research on animal herding and hunting in the central and western Balkans during prehistoric and historic periods. The investigations presented here cover a wide range of topics related to animal exploitation strategies; they range from broad syntheses to specific case studies and, moreover, include interdisciplinary studies that use zooarchaeological and historical data, iconographic representations and modern laboratory analysis.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright page
• Contents Page
• Foreword
• Contributors
• Eating Well on Adriatic Palaeoshore – Marine and Terrestrial Molluscs as Evidence of Late Pleistocene and Early Holocene Cuisine in Vlakno Cave, Dugi otok, Croatia
• Bone Technology from the Early Neolithic Site of Bataševo (Serbia)
• Herding and Hunting at Vinča – Belo Brdo and Stubline During the Late Neolithic, a Stable Isotopic Perspective
• Fishing Techniques in the Late Neolithic Vinča Culture: Fish Hooks from the Site of Vinča – Belo Brdo
• Storage Practice and Problems with Pests in the Late Neolithic: Two Examples from the Central Balkans
• Images of Half-persons, Hybrids and Surreal Creatures in the Late Neolithic Vinča Culture
• Animals in the Early Bronze Age Funerary Practice at Mokrin and Ostojićevo Cemeteries, Serbia
• New Data from the Old Records: Zooarchaeological Remains from Late Bronze and Early Iron Age Sites in Northern Bosnia
• Zooarchaeological Research of the Late La Tène Period in Serbia: an Overview of the Data
• Animal Husbandry and Hunting in Roman Provinces in Serbia: a Zooarchaeological Overview
• The Potential for Horse Breeding in the Vicinity of Viminacium
• Fish Consumption and Trade in Early Byzantine Caričin Grad (Justiniana Prima)
• Animal Exploitation in the Territory of Present-Day Serbia During the Medieval Period: a Zooarchaeological Perspective