Cattle and People: Interdisciplinary Approaches to an Ancient Relationship

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This volume originates in a conference session that took place at the 2018 International Council of Archaeozoology conference in Ankara, Turkey, entitled "Humans and Cattle: Interdisciplinary Perspectives to an Ancient Relationship." The aim of the session was to bring together zooarchaeologists and their colleagues from various other research fields working on human cattle interactions over time. The contributions in this volume reflect well the breadth of work being undertaken on the ancient relationship between humans and cattle across the continents of Europe, Africa and Asia, and from the late Pleistocene to postmedieval period. Almost all involve the study of archaeological cattle remains and use different zooarchaeological methods, but the combination of these approaches with that of ethnography, isotopes and genetics is also featured. Author Interview Cover half title page Series Page Title page LoC data Table of Contents List of Figures LIST OF TABLES EDITOR BIOGRAPHIES LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS PREFACE ACKNOWLEDGMENTS FOREWORD INTRODUCTION Section 1:Prehistoric Human-Cattle Interactions: Aurochs Hunting and Early Husbandry The Aurochs in the European Pleistocene and Early Holocene The Cattle of Ludwinowo 7 Origin and Diffusion of Cattle Herding in Northeastern Africa A Potential Early Cattle-Based Faunal Economy from the Indus Valley Civilization Section 2: Historical Improvementand Intensification On the Improvement of Cattle (Bos taurus) in the Cities of Roman Lusitania Change and Regionalism in British Cattle Husbandry in the Iron Age and Roman Period Cattle Husbandry in Late- and Postmedieval England An Archaeogenetics Study of Cattle Bones from Seventeenth Century Carnide, Lisbon, Portugal Section 3: Symbolic and Ritual Importance Bison and Aurochs, Emblematic Figures of theUpper Paleolithic in Southwestern Europe Emerging Inequalities at Animal Farm Cattle for the Ancestors at Neolithic Çatalhöyük, Turkey The Bovine Deposits from the Chalcolithic Ditched Enclosure of Camino de las Yeseras (Madrid, Spain) Section 4: Socio-Political Importance Ethnoarchaeology of Cattle and Humans among Selected Communities in Manicaland, Eastern Zimbabwe Cattle and People in China Cattle, Yaks, Traction, and the Bronze Age Spread of Pastoralism into the Mongolian Steppe Index