The Walking Larder Patterns of Domestication, Pastoralism, and Predation [Hardcover]

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.

Foreword P.J. UckoPreface. Introduction Part 1: DomesticationIntroduction J. Clutton-Brock1. Pet-keeping and Animal Domestication: A Reappraisal James Serpell2. Definitions of Animal Domestication Sandor Bokonyi3. Defining Domestication: A Clarification Pierre Ducos 4. Some Observations on Modern Domestication Processes Sytze Bottema5. Feral Mammals of the Mediterranean Islands: Documents of Early Domestication Colin P. Groves6. Escaped Domestic Animals and the Introduction of Agriculture to Spain Iain Davidson7. Evidences for the Impact of Traditional Spanish Animal Uses in Parts of the New World Elizabeth S. Wing8. Osteological Evidence for the Process of Animal Domestication Richard H. Meadow9. Animal Exploitation and the Phasing of the Transition from the Palaeolithic to the Neolithic Hans-Peter Uerpmann10. A Two-part, Two-stage Model of Domestication Frank Hole11. The Domestic Horse of the Pre-Cls'