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Cattle and People

Interdisciplinary Approaches to an Ancient Relationship

Elizabeth Wright editor Catarina Ginja editor

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Lockwood Press

Published:5th Sep '22

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The contributions in this volume reflect the breadth of work being undertaken on the ancient relationship between humans and cattle across the continents of Europe, Africa and Asia, and from the late Pleistocene to postmedieval period. Almost all involve the study of archaeological cattle remains. They use different zooarchaeological methods, but the combinations of these varied approaches with that of ethnography, isotopes and genetics is a major feature.

Cattle and Humans originated in a session that took place at the 2018 International Council of Archaeozoology conference in Ankara, Turkey, entitled "Humans and Cattle: Interdisciplinary Perspectives to an Ancient Relationship." The aim of the session was to bring together zooarchaeologists and their colleagues from various other research fields working on human/cattle interactions over time.

This book presents several less well known but interesting examples of the diverse roles of cattle in human society that go beyond their agricultural performance. An aim for the future is a further progress in the analysis of ancient bovine genomes. This may reveal migrations, the origin and spread of adaptive alleles and tell us how the ancient management of cattle created their present diversity. Overall, this is an interesting book that opens a new perspective of the role of cattle in human society. -- Johannes A. Lenstra * Animal Genetics *

ISBN: 9781948488730

Dimensions: 286mm x 221mm x 25mm

Weight: 1272g

364 pages