Economic Zooarchaeology

Peter Rowley-Conwy is professor of environmental archaeology at Durham University. He specialises in hunter-gatherers, early farmers, and the transition to agriculture. He has worked on Mesolithic and Neolithic animal bones in various parts of Europe including Denmark, Italy and Portugal, and the Middle East. Dale Serjeantson is a Visiting Fellow in the Department of Archaeology at the University of Southampton, where she was formerly head of the Faunal Remains Unit. Her research interests are the archaeology of animals, especially birds, on which she has published widely. She is a world-renowned expert on methods of analysis of bird remains and their significance in human prehistory and early history. Paul Halstead is professor of archaeology at the University of Sheffield. He specialises in the archaeology (including zooarchaeology) of early farmers and early complex societies in Greece and the ethnoarchaeology of traditional farming and herding in Mediterranean Europe.

• Contributors Introduction Peter Rowley-Conwy, Dale Serjeantson and Paul HalsteadTony Legge – a bibliography PART I: BONE MAN: THE CAREER AND INFLUENCE OF TONY LEGGE1. Tony Legge (1939–2013) Robin Dennell2. Tony Legge and continuing education in archaeology at the University of London 1974–2004 Harvey Sheldon3. ‘The lowing herd winds slowly o’er the lea …’ Tony Legge and the origins and spread of animal husbandry Andrew M. T. Moore4. Reflections in a dustbin: froth flotation and origins of rice cultivation in South-east Asia Charles Higham5. H ow the pig parts got from Warrago to Web James F. O’Connell6. Tony Legge and the Blick Mead Project David JacquesPart II: Zooarchaeological method and theory7. 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. Stimpson9. Towards a metrical distinction between sheep and goat astragali Simon J. M. Davis10. Down among the dead men: wrong end epidemiology and its implications for palaeopathology Tony Waldron11. A typology of dog deposition in archaeological contexts Angela Perri12. The boundaries of the world. The archaeology of humans and animals in southern South America A. Sebastián Muñoz and Mariana Mondini13. Zooarchaeology in Britain: a partial history Dale SerjeantsonPart III: The zooarchaeology of milking controversy14. Calf mortality and milking: was Tony Legge right after all? Paul Halstead and Valasia Isaakidou15. Age-at-death in traditional Cypriot sheep and goat husbandry: implications for zooarchaeology Angelos Hadjikoumis16. A calf’s eye view of milk production: Tony Legge’s contribution to dairy husbandry studies Rosalind E. Gillis17. Rethinking dairying in the Irish Iron Age: evidence from Dún Ailinne Pam J. Crabtree18. Answering zooarchaeological questions from the analysis of animal bones and organic pottery residues: a critical comparison Alan K. Outram19. Salt, cows, milk, and the earliest farmers of central Europe Peter BoguckiPart IV: Farmers that hunt20. Hunting by farmers: ecological implications Jonathan C. Driver and Shaw Badenhorst21. 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 Saña22. Hunting and herding in the Middle Neolithic of central Serbia: a zooarchaeological analysis of Stragari-Šljivik, Serbia Haskel J. GreenfieldPart V: Prehistoric Britain23. To the Upper Lake: Star Carr revisited – by birchbark canoe Peter Rowley-Conwy24. The first farmers in Britain and Ireland – whence and whither and how? Some reflections Roger Mercer25. 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 Bogaard26. Taphonomy and cultural selection: Tony Legge and the Neolithic pits beside the Dorset Cursus Richard Bradley27. Humans and animals in Mesolithic, Neolithic and Bronze Age Dorset Mark Maltby28. Reconsideration of the ‘Mesolithic harpoon’ from Westward Ho!, Devon Sonia O’Connor and Terry O’ConnorPart VI: Continental Europe and the Mediterranean29. Revisiting the animal remains from Neolithic Kalavasos Tenta, Cyprus Paul Croft30. Neolithic subsistence at Vela Špilja on the island of Lošinj, Croatia Suzanne E. Pilaar Birch31. 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 Colominas32. The economy of medieval and post-medieval Vyborg, Russia, in its historical context Alexei Kasparov33. Dear, oh deer! The adventures of compiling comparative collections: a cervid skeleton allegedly fromEgypt’s Eastern Desert Salima Ikram and Louise Bertini