Economic Zooarchaeology

Contributors Introduction Peter Rowley-Conwy, Dale Serjeantson and Paul Halstead Tony Legge – a bibliography PART I: BONE MAN: THE CAREER AND INFLUENCE OF TONY LEGGE 1. Tony Legge (1939–2013) Robin Dennell 2. Tony Legge and continuing education in archaeology at the University of London 1974–2004 Harvey Sheldon 3. ‘The lowing herd winds slowly o’er the lea …’ Tony Legge and the origins and spread of animal husbandry Andrew M. T. Moore 4. Reflections in a dustbin: froth flotation and origins of rice cultivation in South-east Asia Charles Higham 5. H ow the pig parts got from Warrago to Web James F. O’Connell 6. Tony Legge and the Blick Mead Project David Jacques Part II: Zooarchaeological method and theory 7. Bone measurements and body weights from some Australian feral pigs A. J. Legge† 8. A morphometric investigation of late Pleistocene and Holocene humeri of aoudad (Barbary sheep: Ammotragus lervia, Pallas 1777) recovered from the Haua Fteah, Cyrenaica, Libya A. J. Legge† and C. M. Stimpson 9. Towards a metrical distinction between sheep and goat astragali Simon J. M. Davis 10. Down among the dead men: wrong end epidemiology and its implications for palaeopathology Tony Waldron 11. A typology of dog deposition in archaeological contexts Angela Perri 12. The boundaries of the world. The archaeology of humans and animals in southern South America A. Sebastián Muñoz and Mariana Mondini 13. Zooarchaeology in Britain: a partial history Dale Serjeantson Part III: The zooarchaeology of milking controversy 14. Calf mortality and milking: was Tony Legge right after all? Paul Halstead and Valasia Isaakidou 15. Age-at-death in traditional Cypriot sheep and goat husbandry: implications for zooarchaeology Angelos Hadjikoumis 16. A calf’s eye view of milk production: Tony Legge’s contribution to dairy husbandry studies Rosalind E. Gillis 17. Rethinking dairying in the Irish Iron Age: evidence from Dún Ailinne Pam J. Crabtree 18. Answering zooarchaeological questions from the analysis of animal bones and organic pottery residues: a critical comparison Alan K. Outram 19. Salt, cows, milk, and the earliest farmers of central Europe Peter Bogucki Part IV: Farmers that hunt 20. Hunting by farmers: ecological implications Jonathan C. Driver and Shaw Badenhorst 21. Evaluating seasonality of birth in gazelles in the Middle Euphrates Valley: confirming ethological assumptions in the Abu Hureyra model Carlos Tornero, Marie Balasse, Joël Ughetto-Monfrin, Miquel Molist and Maria Saña 22. Hunting and herding in the Middle Neolithic of central Serbia: a zooarchaeological analysis of Stragari-Šljivik, Serbia Haskel J. Greenfield Part V: Prehistoric Britain 23. To the Upper Lake: Star Carr revisited – by birchbark canoe Peter Rowley-Conwy 24. The first farmers in Britain and Ireland – whence and whither and how? Some reflections Roger Mercer 25. Integration of cereal cultivation and animal husbandry in the British Neolithic: the evidence of charred plant remains from timber buildings at Lismore Fields Glynis Jones and Amy Bogaard 26. Taphonomy and cultural selection: Tony Legge and the Neolithic pits beside the Dorset Cursus Richard Bradley 27. Humans and animals in Mesolithic, Neolithic and Bronze Age Dorset Mark Maltby 28. Reconsideration of the ‘Mesolithic harpoon’ from Westward Ho!, Devon Sonia O’Connor and Terry O’Connor Part VI: Continental Europe and the Mediterranean 29. Revisiting the animal remains from Neolithic Kalavasos Tenta, Cyprus Paul Croft 30. Neolithic subsistence at Vela Špilja on the island of Lošinj, Croatia Suzanne E. Pilaar Birch 31. Using faunal remains to evaluate social stratification in the Middle Iron Age: the fortified village of Mas Castellar de Pontós, north-east Iberian Peninsula Lídia Colominas 32. The economy of medieval and post-medieval Vyborg, Russia, in its historical context Alexei Kasparov 33. Dear, oh deer! The adventures of compiling comparative collections: a cervid skeleton allegedly from Egypt’s Eastern Desert Salima Ikram and Louise Bertini