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Pigs and Humans
10,000 Years of Interaction
Edited by Umberto Albarella, Keith Dobney, Anton Ervynck, and Peter Rowley-Conwy
488 pages
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57 in-text photographs, 93 line drawings
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234x156mm
978-0-19-920704-6
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Hardback
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06 December 2007
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- The first multi-faceted work on the pig in history
- Draws on the latest research in archaeology, zoology, anthropology, and biology, with findings that are also important for cultural history
- Introduction draws out common themes and key issues
- Generously illustrated with more than 50 original photographs and numerous line-drawings
Pigs are one of the most iconic but also paradoxical animals ever to have developed a relationship with humans. This relationship has been a long and varied one: from noble wild beast of the forest to mass produced farmyard animal; from a symbol of status and plenty to a widespread religious food taboo; from revered religious totem to a parodied symbol of filth and debauchery.
Pigs and Humans brings together some of the key scholars whose research is highlighting the role wild and domestic pigs have played in human societies around the world over the last 10,000 years. The 22 contributors cover a broad
and diverse range of temporal, geographical, and topical themes, grounded within the disciplines of archaeology, zoology, anthropology, and biology, as well as art history and history. They explore such areas as evolution and taxonomy, domestication and husbandry, ethnography, and ritual and art, and present some of the latest theories and methodological techniques. The volume as a whole is generously illustrated and will enhance our understanding of many of the issues regarding our complex and ever changing relationship with the pig.Readership: Scholars and students of archaeology (especially of archaeozoology), anthropology, ethnography, biology and history
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Edited by Umberto Albarella, Research Fellow in Archaeology, University of Sheffield, Keith Dobney, Wellcome Trust Bioarchaeology Fellow, University of Durham, Anton Ervynck, Fellow of the Institute for the Archaeological Heritage of the Flemish Community in Brussels, and Peter Rowley-Conwy, Reader in Environmental Archaeology, University of Durham Contributors:
Umberto Albarella, University of Sheffield
Leif Andersson, Uppsala University
Tomoko Anezaki, Gunma Museum of Natural History, Tomioka City, Japan
Richard Carter, University of Sussex
Anne-Sophie Dalix, Maison de l'Orient et de la Méditerranée, Lyon
Goggy Davidowitz, University of Arizona
Bea De Cupere, Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences, Brussels
Keith Dobney, University of Durham
Anton Ervynck, Flemish Heritage Institute, Brussels
Caroline Grigson, University College London
Colin Groves, Australian National University
Annat Haber, Tel-Aviv University
Hitomi Hongo, Graduate University of Advanced Studies, Hayama, Japan
Liora Kolska Horwitz, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem
Horst Kierdorf, University of Hildesheim
Uwe Kierdorf, University of Giessen
Greger Larson, Henry Wellcome Ancient Biomolecules Centre, University of
Oxford
An Lentacker, Flemish Heritage Institute, Brussels
Ola Magnell, Lund University
Ingrid Mainland, University of Bradford
Filippo Manconi
Marco Masseti, University of Florence
Gundula Müldner, University of Reading
Sarah Phillips, University of Durham,
Daniel Pillonel, Service et Musée Cantonal d'Archéologie, Hauterive, Switzerland
Mike Richards, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig
Peter Rowley-Conwy, University of Durham
Paul Sillitoe, University of Durham
Jacqueline Studer, Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle, Geneva
Hiroki Sugawara, Historical Museum of Jomon Village Okumatsushima,, Higashimatsushima City, Japan
Osamu Takahashi, Chitose Salmon Aquarium/ Museum, Chitose City, Japan
Sofie Vanpoucke, Catholic University of Leuven
Jean-Denis Vigne, Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris
Emmanuelle Vila, Archéorient, Maison de l'Orient et de la Méditerranée, Lyon
Marc Waelkens, Catholic University of Leuven
Tom Wilkie, University of Bradford
Kyomi Yamazaki, Iwaki Junior College, Iwaki City, Japan
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"...a multidisciplinary approach that takes into account zoology, palaeontology, genetics, ethnography and archaeology, and researchers with these different approaches have contributed to the many authoritative chapters in this book. It has been well editied, has excellent illustrations and will be of interest and use to readers in many different disciplines." - Juliet Clutton-Brock Times Literary Supplement "[an] important contribution to the repertoire of zooarchaeological studies" - Philip J. Piper Antiquity
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Umberto Albarella, Keith Dobney, Anton Ervynck & Peter Rowley-Conwy: Introduction
I. Evolution and Taxonomy
1: Colin Groves: Current views on taxonomy and zoogeography of the genus Sus
2: Greger Larson, Umberto Albarella, Keith Dobney & Peter Rowley-Conwy: Current views on Sus phylogeography and pig domestication as seen through modern mtDNA studies
3: Leif Andersson: The molecular basis for phenotypic changes during pig domestication
II. The History of Pig Domestication and Husbandry
4: Keith Dobney, Anton Ervynck, Umberto Albarella & Peter Rowley-Conwy: The transition from wild boar to domestic pig in Eurasia, illustrated by a tooth development defect and biometrical data
5: Caroline Grigson: Culture, ecology and pigs from the 5th to the 3rd millennium BC around the Fertile Crescent
6: Hitomi Hongo, Tomoko Anezaki, Kyomi Yamazaki, Osamu Takahashi & Hiroki Sugawara: Hunting or management? The status of Sus in the Jomon Period, Japan
7: Peter Rowley-Conwy & Keith Dobney: Wild boar and domestic pigs in Mesolithic and Neolithic southern Scandinavia
8: Marco Masseti: The economic role of Sus in early human fishing communities
9: Anton Ervynck, An Lentacker, Gundula Muldner, Mike Richards & Keith Dobney: An investigation into the transition from forest dwelling pigs to farm animals in medieval Flanders, Belgium
III. Methodological Applications
10: Richard Carter & Ola Magnell: Age estimation of wild boar based on molariform mandibular tooth development and its application to seasonality at the Mesolithic site of Ringkloster, Denmark
11: Annat Haber: A statistical method for dealing with isolated teeth: ageing pig teeth from Hagoshrim, Israel
12: Goggy Davidowitz & Liora Kolska Horwitz: Inter-population variation in recent wild boar from Israel
13: Tom Wilkie, Ingrid Mainland, Umberto Albarella, Keith Dobney & Peter Rowley-Conwy: A dental microwear study of pig diet and management in Iron Age, Romano-British, Anglo-Scandinavian and medieval contexts in England
14: Horst Kierdorf & Uwe Kierdorf: The histopathology of fluorotic dental enamel in wild boar and domestic pigs
15: Sofie Vanpoucke, Bea De Cupere & Marc Waelkens: Economic and ecological reconstruction at the Classical site of Sagalassos, Turkey, using pigs' teeth
IV. Ethnographic Studies
16: Umberto Albarella, Filippo Manconi, Jean-Denis Vigne & Peter Rowley-Conwy: Ethnoarchaeology of pig husbandry in Sardinia and Corsica
17: Jacqueline Studer & Daniel Pillonel: Traditional pig butchery by the Yali people of West Papua (Irian Jaya): an ethnographic and archaeozoological example
18: Paul Sillitoe: Pigs in the New Guinea Highlands: an ethnographic example
V. Pigs in Ritual and Art
19: Anne-Sophie Dalix & Emmanuelle Vila: Wild boar hunting in the Eastern Mediterranean from the 2nd to the 1st millennium BC
20: Sarah Phillips: The pig in medieval iconography
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