Walking Larder

<p>This book is one of a series of more than 20 volumes resulting from the World Archaeological Congress, September 1986, attempting to bring together not only archaeologists and anthropologists from many parts of the world, as well as academics from contingent disciplines, but also non-academics from a wide range of cultural backgrounds. This text looks at human-animal interactions, especially some of the less well known aspects of the field. A number of studies in the book document some of the vast changes humankind has wrought upon the natural environment through the movement of various species of animals around the world. These chapters provide contributions to the understanding of contemporary ecological problems, especially the deforestation taking place to provide grazing for live-stock. The 31 contributions offer a shop-window of approaches, primarily from a biological perspective.</p> <p>Foreword <i>P.J. Ucko</i> Preface. Introduction <b>Part 1: Domestication</b> Introduction <i>J. Clutton-Brock</i> 1. Pet-keeping and Animal Domestication: A Reappraisal <i>James Serpell</i> 2. Definitions of Animal Domestication <i>Sandor Bokonyi</i> 3. Defining Domestication: A Clarification <i>Pierre Ducos </i>4. Some Observations on Modern Domestication Processes <i>Sytze Bottema</i> 5. Feral Mammals of the Mediterranean Islands: Documents of Early Domestication <i>Colin P. Groves</i> 6. Escaped Domestic Animals and the Introduction of Agriculture to Spain <i>Iain Davidson</i> 7. Evidences for the Impact of Traditional Spanish Animal Uses in Parts of the New World <i>Elizabeth S. Wing</i> 8. Osteological Evidence for the Process of Animal Domestication <i>Richard H. Meadow</i> 9. Animal Exploitation and the Phasing of the Transition from the Palaeolithic to the Neolithic <i>Hans-Peter Uerpmann</i> 10. A Two-part, Two-stage Model of Domestication <i>Frank Hole</i> 11. The Domestic Horse of the Pre-Ch'in Period in China <i>Chow Ben-Shun</i> 12. Utilization of Domestic Animals in Pre- and Protohistoric India <i>P.K. Thomas</i> <b>Part 2: Pastoralism</b> Introduction <i>J. Clutton-Brock</i> 13. The Origins of Migration and Animal Husbandry in the Steppes of Eastern Europe <i>Valentin Pavlovich Shilov</i> 14. Pastoralism in Southwest Asia: The Second Millennium BC <i>Juris Zarins</i> 15. Farming to Pastoralism: Effects of Climatic Change in the Deccan <i>M.K. Dhavalikar</i> 16. The Changing Role of Reindeer in the Life of the Sami <i>Pekka Aikio</i> 17. The Geographical Distribution and Function of Sheep Flock Leaders: A Cultural Aspect of the Man-domesticated Animal Relationship in Southwestern Eurasia <i>Yutaka Tani</i> 18. Cattle in Ancient North Africa <i>Juliet Clutton-Brock</i> 19. The Development of Pastoralism in East Africa <i>Peter Robertshaw</i> 20. Cattle and Cognition: Aspects of Maasai Practical Reasoning <i>John G. Galaty</i> 21. Prehispanic Pastoralism in Northern Peru <i>Tom McGreevy</i> 22. Andean Pastoralism and Inca Ideology <i>Gordon Brotherston</i> 23. Origins and Development of Andean Pastoralism: An Overview of the Last 6000 Years <i>David L. Browman</i> 24. Are Llama-herders in the South Central Andes True Pastoralists? <i>Mario A. Rabey</i> <b>Part 3: Predation </b>Introduction <i>J. Clutton-Brock</i> 25. Did Large Predators Keep Humans Out of North America? <i>Valerius Geist</i> 26. Hunting in Pre-Columbian Panama: A Diachronic Perspective <i>Richard G. Cooke and Anthony J. Ranere</i> 27. Shells and Settlement: European Implications of Oyster Exploitation <i>Derek Sloan</i> 28. Effects of Human Predation and Changing Environment on Some Mollusc Species on Tongatapu, Tonga <i>Dirk H.R. Spennemann</i> 29. Rocky Cape Revisited: New Light on Prehistoric Tasmanian Fishing <i>Sarah M. Colley and Rhys Jones</i> 30. Mutualism Between Man and Honeyguide <i>Alex Hooper</i> 31. Cova Negra and Gorham's Cave: Evidence of the Place of Birds in Mousterian Communities <i>Anne Eastham</i></p>