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The origins and development of African livestock : archaeology, genetics, linguistics and ethnography

Title
The origins and development of African livestock : archaeology, genetics, linguistics and ethnography / edited by Roger M. Blench and Kevin C. MacDonald.
Publication
London : UCL, 2000.

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Additional Authors
  • MacDonald, Kevin C.
  • Blench, R.
Description
xx, 546 p. : ill., maps; 25 cm.
Subject
  • Livestock > Africa > Origin
  • Animal remains (Archaeology) > Africa
  • Livestock > Africa > Development > History
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
The origins of African livestock : indigenous or imported? / Kevin C. MacDonald -- A survey of ethnographic and linguistic evidence for the history of livestock in Africa / Roger M. Blench -- Cattle, sheep, and goats south of the Sahara : an archaeozoological perspective / Juliet Clutton-Brock -- Bos africanus (Brehm?) : notes on the archaeozoology of the native cattle of Africa / Caroline Grigson -- Climate and cattle in North Africa / Fekri A. Hassan -- Livestock in Saharan rock art / Alfred Muzzolini -- African livestock remains from Saharan mortuary contexts / François Paris -- The origins and development of domesticated animals in arid West Africa / Kevin C. MacDonald & Rachel Hutton MacDonald -- Domestic animals from archaeological sites in Central and West-Central Africa / Wim Van Neer -- The origins and spread of domestic animals in East Africa / Fiona Marshall -- The origins of the domesticated animals of Southern Africa / Andrew B. Smith -- Genetics and the origins of African cattle / Patrick Cunningham -- Two Eves for taurus? : bovine mitochondrial DNA and African cattle domestication / Dan Bradley & Ronan Loftus -- Molecular genetic analysis of African zeboid populations / Ronan Loftus & Patrick Cunningham -- Characterization of the Kuri cattle of Lake Chad using molecular genetic techniques / Ciaran Meghen ... [et al.] -- Characterizations of African cattle, sheep, and goats an their contributions to archaeological understanding / Stephen J.G. Hall -- The characterization of indigenous goat types of Ethiopia and Eritrea / Workneh Ayalew ... [et al.] -- Using morphobiometric indices to map goat resources in Africa / J.J. Lauvergne, D. Bourzat, F. Minvielle -- Indigenous domesticated dogs of Southern Africa / Sian Hall -- African minor livestock species / Roger M. Blench -- A history of donkeys, wild asses, and mules in Africa / Roger M. Blench -- A history of pigs in Africa / Roger M. Blench -- Did chickens go west? / Kay Williamson -- Linguistic evidence for the prehistory of livestock in Sudan / Marianne Bechhaus-Gerst -- Ethnographic perspectives on cattle management in semi-arid environments : a case study from Maasailand / Kathleen Ryan ... [et al.] -- The history of working animals in Africa / Paul Starkey -- Bees and bee-keeping in Africa / Andrew D. Kidd & Berthold Schrimpf.
Call Number
Sc E 00-1194
ISBN
  • 1841420182
  • 1841420174 (pbk.)
OCLC
40799064
Title
The origins and development of African livestock : archaeology, genetics, linguistics and ethnography / edited by Roger M. Blench and Kevin C. MacDonald.
Imprint
London : UCL, 2000.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Added Author
MacDonald, Kevin C.
Blench, R.
Research Call Number
Sc E 00-1194
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