Research Catalog

Title

Animals in the Neolithic of Britain and Europe / edited by Dale Serjeantson and David Field.

Publication

Oxford : Oxbow ; Oakville, CT : [Distributed in the U.S. by] D. Brown Book Co., c2006.

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Additional Authors

• Serjeantson, D. (Dale)
• Field, David, 1950-
• Neolithic Studies Group.

Description

xii, 178 p. : ill., maps, plans; 25 cm.

Summary

Presenting 12 papers from the Neolithic Studies Group seminar on the subject of animals in the Neolithic, this book aims to cover a range of approaches to animals in the Neolithic, discussing both wild and domestic animals and focuses on their social as well as economic roles.

Series Statement

Neolithic studies group seminar papers : 7

Uniform Title

Neolithic Studies Group seminar papers 7.

Subject

• Neolithic period > Europe > Congresses
• Neolithic period > Great Britain > Congresses
• Animal remains (Archaeology) > Europe > Congresses
• Animal remains (Archaeology) > Great Britain > Congresses
• Agriculture, Prehistoric > Europe > Congresses
• Europe > Antiquities > Congresses
• Great Britain > Antiquities > Congresses

Genre/Form

• Conference papers and proceedings
• Congresses (form)

Note

• Papers originally presented at a seminar organised by the Neolithic Studies Group and held on Nov. 10th, 2003.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

William Cunnington and his butcher / David Field -- Neolithic wild game animals in western Europe : the question of hunting / K.V. Boyle -- The bear, the wolf, the otter and the weasel : carnivorous mammals in the Dutch Neolithic / J.T. Zeiler -- Dogs and wolves in the Neolithic of Britain / Kate M. Clark -- Sheep in the garden : the integration of crop and livestock husbandry in early farming regimes of Greece and southern Europe / Paul Halstead -- The use of spent grain as cattle feed in the Neolithic / Merryn Dineley -- Neolithic shepherds and their herds in the northern Adriatic Basin / Preston Miracle -- Ploughing with cows : Knossos and the secondary products revolution / Valasia Isaakidou -- Food or feast at Neolithic Runnymede? / Dale Serjeantson -- A community of beings : animals and people in the Neolithic of southern Britain / Joshua Pollard -- Taming the wild : a final Neolithic/earlier Bronge Aze aurochs deposit from West London / Jonathan Cotton, Nicholas Elsden, Alan Pipe and Louise Rayner -- Animals in the Neolithic : a research agenda? : no thanks / Umberto Albarella.

ISBN

• 184217214X (pbk.)
• 9781842172148 (pbk.)

OCLC

70881491

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library