Animals and people
Subtitle: archaeozoological papers in honour of Ina Plug
By: edited by Shaw Badenhorst, Peter Mitchell, Jonathan C. Driver.
Contributors: Plug, Ina.; Badenhorst, S.; Mitchell, Peter, 1962-; Driver, Jonathan C.
Series: BAR international series -- 1849
Publisher: Archaeopress
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Oxford
Language: eng
Number of pages: 228
ISBN-13: 9781407303369
Subjects: Plug, Ina.; Animal remains (Archaeology) -- Africa.; Excavations (Archaeology) -- Africa.; Africa -- Antiquities.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: value: Ina Plug: a tribute / Shaw Badenhorst; value: Zooarchaeology in Southern Africa: a view from the north / Terry O'Connor; value: Archaeozoology at the Transvaal Museum and its future in South Africa / Karin Scott; value: Models for zooarchaeologists from modern bushmeat studies / Jonathan C. Driver; value: The contribution of Sibudu fauna to an understanding of Kwazulu-Natal environments at 60 ka, 50 ka and 37 ka / Lyn Wadley, Ina Plug, and Jamie L. Clark; value: Variability and change in middle Stone Age hunting behaviour: aspects from the lithic and faunal records / Marlize Lombard and Jamie L. Clark; value: Archaeobiodiversity of ichthyofaunas from the holocene Sahel / Nadja Pöllath, Joris Peters, and Hélène Jousse; value: Shrews from Ein el Gazzareen, Dakhleh Oasis, western desert, Egypt / C.S. Churcher; value: Human and animal interaction on the Shire Highlands, Malawi: the evidence from Malowa Rockshelter / Yusuf M. Juwayeyi; value: Early herders in southern Africa: a synthesis / Andrew B. Smith; value: The canine connection: dogs and southern African hunter-gatherers / Peter Mitchell; value: Fishing in the Senegal River during the Iron Age: the evidence from the habitation mounds of Cubalel and Siouré / Wim van Neer; value: Early Iron Age regional settlement and demographic patterns along the eastern seaboard of South Africa: a view from the lower Thukela River Valley / Haskel J. Greenfield and Leonard O. van Schalkwyk; value: A consideration of livestock exploitation during the early Iron Age in the Thukela Valley, Kwazulu-Natal / Elizabeth R. Arnold; value: Social memory and the antiquity of snake and crocodile symbolism in southern Africa / Kent D. Fowler; value: Symbolic animal burials from the Venda region in the Limpopo Province, South Africa / Louisa Hutten; value: Zhizo and leopard's kopje: test excavations at Simamwe and Mtanye, Zimbabwe / T.N. Huffman; value: Subsistence change among farming communities in southern Africa during the last two millennia: a search for potential causes / Shaw Badenhorst.