Discusses key research issues concerning hunting, herding and early agriculture through the analysis of zoological and archaebotanical remains
Economic archaeology is the study of how past peoples exploited animals and plants, using as evidence the remains of those animals and plants. The animal side is usually termed zooarchaeology, the plant side archaeobotany. What distinguishes them from other studies of ancient animals and plants is that their ultimate aim is to find out about human behaviour – the animal and plant remains are a means to this end. The 33 papers present a wide array of topics covering many areas of archaeological interest. Aspects of method and theory, animal bone identification, human palaeopathology, prehistoric animal utilisation in South America, and the study of dog cemeteries are covered. The long-running controversy over the milking of animals and the use of dairy products by humans is discussed 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 society in Spain, Medieval and post-medieval animal utilisation in northern Russia, and the claimed finding of a modern red deer skeleton in Egypt’s Eastern Desert. In exploring these themes, this volume celebrates the life and work of Tony Legge (zoo)archaeologist and teacher.
Contributors
Introduction
Peter Rowley-Conwy, Dale Serjeantson and Paul Halstead
Tony Legge a bibliography
PART I: BONE MAN: THE CAREER AND INFLUENCE OF TONY LEGGE
1. Tony Legge (19392013)
Robin Dennell
2. Tony Legge and continuing education in archaeology at the University of
London 19742004
Harvey Sheldon
3. The lowing herd winds slowly oer the lea Tony Legge and the origins
and spread of animal husbandry
Andrew M. T. Moore
4. Reflections in a dustbin: froth flotation and origins of rice cultivation
in South-east Asia
Charles Higham
5. H ow the pig parts got from Warrago to Web
James F. OConnell
6. Tony Legge and the Blick Mead Project
David Jacques
Part II: Zooarchaeological method and theory
7. Bone measurements and body weights from some Australian feral pigs
A. J. Legge
8. A morphometric investigation of late Pleistocene and Holocene humeri of
aoudad (Barbary sheep: Ammotragus lervia, Pallas 1777) recovered from the
Haua Fteah, Cyrenaica, Libya
A. J. Legge and C. M. Stimpson
9. Towards a metrical distinction between sheep and goat astragali
Simon J. M. Davis
10. Down among the dead men: wrong end epidemiology and its implications for
palaeopathology
Tony Waldron
11. A typology of dog deposition in archaeological contexts
Angela Perri
12. The boundaries of the world. The archaeology of humans and animals in
southern South America
A. Sebastiįn Muńoz and Mariana Mondini
13. Zooarchaeology in Britain: a partial history
Dale Serjeantson
Part III: The zooarchaeology of milking controversy
14. Calf mortality and milking: was Tony Legge right after all?
Paul Halstead and Valasia Isaakidou
15. Age-at-death in traditional Cypriot sheep and goat husbandry:
implications for zooarchaeology
Angelos Hadjikoumis
16. A calfs eye view of milk production: Tony Legges contribution to dairy
husbandry studies
Rosalind E. Gillis
17. Rethinking dairying in the Irish Iron Age: evidence from Dśn Ailinne
Pam J. Crabtree
18. Answering zooarchaeological questions from the analysis of animal bones
and organic pottery residues: a critical comparison
Alan K. Outram
19. Salt, cows, milk, and the earliest farmers of central Europe
Peter Bogucki
Part IV: Farmers that hunt
20. Hunting by farmers: ecological implications
Jonathan C. Driver and Shaw Badenhorst
21. Evaluating seasonality of birth in gazelles in the Middle Euphrates
Valley: confirming ethological assumptions in the Abu Hureyra model
Carlos Tornero, Marie Balasse, Joėl Ughetto-Monfrin, Miquel Molist and Maria
Sańa
22. Hunting and herding in the Middle Neolithic of central Serbia: a
zooarchaeological analysis of Stragari-ljivik, Serbia
Haskel J. Greenfield
Part V: Prehistoric Britain
23. To the Upper Lake: Star Carr revisited by birchbark canoe
Peter Rowley-Conwy
24. The first farmers in Britain and Ireland whence and whither and how?
Some reflections
Roger Mercer
25. Integration of cereal cultivation and animal husbandry in the British
Neolithic: the evidence of charred plant remains from timber buildings at
Lismore Fields
Glynis Jones and Amy Bogaard
26. Taphonomy and cultural selection: Tony Legge and the Neolithic pits
beside the Dorset Cursus
Richard Bradley
27. Humans and animals in Mesolithic, Neolithic and Bronze Age Dorset
Mark Maltby
28. Reconsideration of the Mesolithic harpoon from Westward Ho!, Devon
Sonia OConnor and Terry OConnor
Part VI: Continental Europe and the Mediterranean
29. Revisiting the animal remains from Neolithic Kalavasos Tenta, Cyprus
Paul Croft
30. Neolithic subsistence at Vela pilja on the island of Loinj, Croatia
Suzanne E. Pilaar Birch
31. Using faunal remains to evaluate social stratification in the Middle Iron
Age: the fortified village of Mas Castellar de Pontós, north-east Iberian
Peninsula
Lķdia Colominas
32. The economy of medieval and post-medieval Vyborg, Russia, in its
historical context
Alexei Kasparov
33. Dear, oh deer! The adventures of compiling comparative collections: a
cervid skeleton allegedly from
Egypts Eastern Desert
Salima Ikram and Louise Bertini
Peter Rowley-Conwy is professor of environmental archaeology at Durham University. He specialises in hunter-gatherers, early farmers, and the transition to agriculture. He has worked on Mesolithic and Neolithic animal bones in various parts of Europe including Denmark, Italy and Portugal, and the Middle East. Dale Serjeantson is a Visiting Fellow in the Department of Archaeology at the University of Southampton, where she was formerly head of the Faunal Remains Unit. Her research interests are the archaeology of animals, especially birds, on which she has published widely. She is a world-renowned expert on methods of analysis of bird remains and their significance in human prehistory and early history. Paul Halstead is professor of archaeology at the University of Sheffield. He specialises in the archaeology (including zooarchaeology) of early farmers and early complex societies in Greece and the ethnoarchaeology of traditional farming and herding in Mediterranean Europe.
