Archaeozoology of the Near East X
Subtitle: proceedings of the Tenth International Symposium on the Archaeozoology of South-Western Asia and Adjacent Areas
By: edited by Bea De Cupere, Veerle Linseele and Sheila Hamilton-Dyer
Contributors: De Cupere, Bea, editor; Linseele, Veerle, editor; Hamilton-Dyer, Sheila, editor
Series: Ancient Near Eastern studies. Supplement -- 44; Ancient Near Eastern studies -- 44.
Publisher: Peeters
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Leuven; Walpole, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 420
ISBN-13: 9789042929661
Subjects: Excavations (Archaeology); Animal remains (Archaeology); Archäozoologie; Hunting and gathering societies; Congresses; Prehistoric peoples; Antiquities
Other titles: Archaeozoology of the Near East 10
Description: This volume presents the proceedings of the 10th international meeting of the working group "Archaeozoology of South-Western Asia and Adjacent Areas" (ASWA X). The meeting took place at the Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences (Brussels, Belgium) from June 28 to June 30, 2011. The 20 contributions presented here deal with a wide range of topics related to the human-animal interactions and gather the results of research that has been conducted in Anatolia and the Levant, more eastern regions (Armenia and Azerbaijan), northern Africa (Egypt and Sudan) and Oman. Research questions include issues such as the exploitation of animal resources, changing animal use, herding practices, social differences and/or identities, trade, animal burials and sacrifices, and cover periods ranging from the PPNB up to the Early Islamic period.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Faunal remains from Wadi Abu Tulayha: a PPNB outpost in the steppe-desert of southern Jordan  -- Hitomi Hongo, Lubna Omar, Hiroo Nasu, Petra Krönneck and Sumio Fujii; title: Evaluating differences in animal consumption patterns from PPNB houses at Tell Halula (Euphrates Valley, Syria)  -- Carlos Tornero, Miguel Molist and Maria Saña; title: Changing animal use at Neolithic Çatalhöyük, Turkey  -- Nerissa Russell, Katheryn C. Twiss, David C. Orton and G. Arzu Demirergi; title: Herding and settlement identity in the central Anatolian Neolithic: herding decisions and organisation in Çatalhöyük, elucidated through oxygen isotopes and microwear in sheep teeth  -- Elizabeth Henton; title: Chalcolithic pig remains from Çamlibel Tarlasi, Central Anatolia  -- László Bartosiewicz, Roz Gillis, Linus Girdland Flink, Allowen Evin, Thoms Cucchi, Rus Hoelzel, Una Vidarsdottir, Keith Dobney, Greger Larson and Ulf-Dietrich Schoop; title: Bronze and Iron Age subsistence changes in the Upper Tigris: zooarchaeology of Operation E at Ziyaret Tepe, south-eastern Turkey  -- Tina L. Greenfield-Jongsma and Haskel J. Greenfield; title: New data on the exploitation of animal resources in the Upper Tigris River area (Turkey) during the second and first millennia BC  -- Rémi Berthon; title: What is inside this pit? Micro- and macrofaunal investigations at Chalcolithic and early bronze Age Ovçular Tepesi (Nakhchivan, Azerbaijan)  -- Zsófiz E. Kovács, Rémi Berthon, Wim Van Neer and Thomas Cucchi; title: Royal tombs with horse sacrifices in Nerkin Naver, Armenia (Middle Bronze Age)  -- Hakob Simonyan and Ninna Manaseryan; title: The mysteries of Egyptian Nile perch (Lates niloticus). The case of Tel Tweini (Syria, Middle Bronze Age-Iron Age)  -- Veerle Linselle, Wim Van Neer and Joachim Bretschneider; title: Zooarchaeology and social identity in Bronze Age and Iron Age Israel: a research framework  -- Nimrod Marom and Guy Bar-Oz; title: Persian period dog burials in the Levant: new evidence from Tell el-Burak (Lebanon) and a reconsideration of the phenomenon  -- Canan Çakirlar, Verena Amer, Jens Kamlah and Hélène Sader; title: Environmental influence on animal exploitation and meat consumption during the Early Islamic period in Syria. A case study from Qasr al-Hayr al-Sharqi and al-Hadir  -- Jacqueline Studer, Denis Genequand and Marie-Odile Rousset; title: A leopard in the Predynastic Elite Cemetery HK6 at Hierakonpolis, Egypt  -- Wim Van Neer, Bea De Cupere and Renée Friedman; title: A tale of two sites: Old Kingdom subsistence economy and the infrastructure of pyramid construction  -- Richard W. Redding; title: Animal bone assemblages from a Bronze Age palace at Tell el-Dab'a, Egypt  -- Günther Karl Kunst; title: Tomb of the dogs in Gebel Asyut al-gharbi (Middle Egypt, Late to Ptolemaic/Roman period): preliminary results on the canid remains  -- Chiori Kitagawa; title: Pampered puss? Cats from the Roman port of Myo Hormos at Quseir, Egypt  -- Sheila Hamilton-Dyer; title: The goats (Capra hircus L.) from Kerma (Sudan) (2050-1750 BC) A contribution to the knowledge of African goats -- Louis Chaix -- New evidence for dog butchering from prehistoric coastal sites in the Sultanate of Oman /-- Elena Maini and Antonio Curci.