Diet and health in past animal populations
Subtitle: current research and future directions
By: edited by J. Davies ... [et al.].
Contributors: Davies, J.
Publisher: Oxbow Books; David Brown Book Co.
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Oxford; Oakville, CT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 134
Subjects: Animal paleopathology -- Congresses.; Animal remains (Archaeology) -- Congresses.; Animal health -- Congresses.; Animal feeding -- Congresses.
Genres: Congresses.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
"Proceedings of the 9th Conference of the International Council of Archaeozoology, Durham, August 2002."
Table of contents: title: Introduction : animal diet and health; title: current perspectives and future directions / Richard Thomas and Ingrid Mainland; title: Animal palaeopathology in prehistoric and historic Ireland : a review of the evidence / Eileen M. Murphy; title: Looking for human therapeutic intervention in the healing of fractures of domestic animals / Mircea Udrescu and Wim Van Neer; title: Rib and vertebral fractures in medieval dogs from Haithabu, Starigard, and Schleswig / Wolf-Rüdiger Teegen; title: Palaeopathology and Neolithic cattle traction : methodological issues and archaeological perspectives / Niels Nørkjœr Johannsen; title: Palaeopathological evidence for draught cattle on a Roman site in the Netherlands / Maaike Groot; title: Pathological alteration of cattle skeletons : evidence for the draught exploitation of animals? / Marian Fabiš; title: Can palaeopathology be used as evidence for draught animals? / Ylva Telldahl; title: Horse burials from Middle Lithuania : a palaeopathological investigation / Linas Daugnora and Richard Thomas; title: Abnormal sheep metatarsals : a problem in aetiology and historical geography / Don Brothwell, Keith Dobney, and Deborah Jaques; title: Oral pathology, nutritional deficiencies, and mineral depletion in domesticates : a literature review / Jessica J. Davies; title: Linear enamel hypoplasia in medieval pigs from Germany / Wolf-Rüdiger Teegen; title: Identifying livestock diet from charred plant remains : a Neolithic case study from southern Turkmenistan / M. Charles and A. Bogaard; title: The diet and management of domestic sheep and goats at Neolithic Makriyalos / Ingrid Mainland and Paul Halstead; title: Long distance movement of sheep and goats of Bakhtiari nomads tracked with intra-tooth variations of stable isotopes (¹³C and ¹⁸O) / Marjan Mashkour, Hervé Bocherens, and Issam Moussa; title: Tuberculosis as a zoonotic disease in antiquity / Simon A. Mays.