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1 online resource (2 volumes) |
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Machine generated contents note: VOLUME 1 -- pt. 1 PALAEOLITHIC AND NEOLITHIC SUBSISTENCE IN NORTHERN MESOPOTAMIA, ANATOLIA AND THE IRANIAN PLATEAU -- 1. Small game and the shifting subsistence patterns from the Upper Paleolithic to the Natufian at Baaz Rockshelter, Syria / Nicholas J. Conard -- 2. Instability and co-development of the exploitation of early domestic sheep and goats: the exampleof Shillourokambos (Cyprus, Pre-Pottery Neolithic, 10,400 -- 9000 cal BP) / Jean Guilaine -- 3. fauna of Tell Aswad (Damascus, Syria), early Neolithic levels. Comparison with northern and southern Levant sites / Lionel Gourichon -- 4. Faunal remains from the Middle Neolithic site of Qaleh Rostam / Marjan Mashkour -- 5. Digesting the data: dogs as taphonomic agents at Neolithic Catalhoyuk, Turkey / Katheryn C. Twiss -- pt. 2 CAUCASIAN ZOOARCHAEOLOGY -- 6. Carnivora mammals of the Holocene in Armenia / Nina Manaseryan -- 7. Upper Palaeolithic fauna from Kalavan 1 (Armenia): preliminary results / Christine Chataigner -- 8. Neolithic subsistence economy in the plain of Ararat: preliminary comparative analysis of the faunal remains from Aratashen and Khaturnarkh-Aknashen (Armenia) / Christine Chataigner -- 9. Animal bones from Aramus, Armenia, excavation 2004 / Lilit Mirzoyan -- 10. Analysis of Urartian bone remains from Erebuni, Armenia (2003 -- 2007 excavations): possible use of bones for the manufacture of paint / Nina Manaseryan -- pt. 3 EXAMPLES OF ANIMAL EXPLOITATION ON URBAN SITES DURING THE BRONZE AGE -- 11. Animal exploitation from the Bronze Age to the Early Islamic period in Haftavan Tepe (Western Azerbaijan-Iran) / Marjan Mashkour -- 12. Animal exploitation in the Upper Tigris river valley during the Middle Bronze Age: a first assessment from Hirbemerdon Tepe / Remi Berthon -- 13. Animal exploitation at Tell Bderi (Syria) during the Early Bronze period / Lubna Omar -- 14. Exploitation of fauna at Ras Shamra: case study of the ̀Maison aux Albatres', Late Bronze Age, northern Levant / Emmanuelle Vila -- 15. How large a sheep, how big a sample? / Laszlo Bartosiewicz -- 16. New thoughts on the role of the Middle Khabur (Syria) in the urbanisation of northern Mesopotamia during the Early Bronze Age / Scott J. Rufolo -- VOLUME 2 -- pt. 4 PASTORALISM, NOMADISM AND MOBILITY -- 17. Fish and mammal bones in the Abu Dhabi desert: evidence for Bedouin diet during the pre-oil era / Mohammed Amer Al-Neyadi -- 18. Nomads, horses and mobility: an assessment of geographic origins of Iron Age horses found at Tsengel Khairkhan and Baga Turgen Gol (Mongolian Altai) based on oxygen isotope compositions of tooth enamel / Jean-Denis Vigne -- 19. Zooarchaeological evidence for pastoralism in the Early Transcaucasian Culture / Pam J. Crabtree -- pt. 5 EXPLOITATION OF ANIMALS IN THE ARABIAN PENINSULA -- 20. New data on domestic and wild camels (Camelus dromedarius and Camelus sp.) in Sabaean and Minaean Yemen / F.G. Fedele -- 21. Iron Age site of Muweilah (Sharjah, UAE) and the problems of dromedary domestication / Hans-Peter Uerpmann -- 22. Fish exploitation at Qal'at Al-Bahrain from the Early Dilmun period (3rd millennium BC) to the Middle Islamic period (13 -- 16th centuries AD): preliminary results / Justine Vorenger -- 23. Evidence for deep-sea fishing and cultural identity during the Neolithic period at Akab Island, Umm al-Qaiwain, United Arab Emirates / Sophie Mery -- pt. 6 RITUALS AND ANIMAL DEPOSITS -- 24. Elite equids 2: seeing the dead / Jill A. Weber -- 25. unusual cattle burial at Dayr al-Barsha (Late Period, Middle Egypt) / Bart Vanthuyne -- 26. Opet Temple courtyard excavations: a new zooarchaeological study for Karnak (Luxor, Egypt) / Guillaume Charloux -- 27. More animal burials from the Predynastic elite cemetery of Hierakonpolis (Upper Egypt): the 2008 season / Renee Friedman -- pt. 7 ANIMAL EXPLOITATION DURING ANTIQUITY -- 28. Animal exploitation during the Classical/Hellenistic period at Tepe Diizen (SW Turkey): preliminary results / Hannelore Vanhaverbeke -- 29. Une accumulation d'equidcs a Berytus: approche taxinomique et taphonomique / Torek Oueslati -- 30. animal bone remains from Mar Nicola, a Byzantine-Islamic site at Beit Jala, Palestine / Mohammad Al-Zawahra |
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Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on August 29, 2017) |
| Subject |
Animal remains (Archaeology) -- Middle East -- Congresses
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Hunting and gathering societies -- Middle East -- Congresses
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Prehistoric peoples -- Middle East -- Congresses
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HISTORY -- Ancient -- General.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Archaeology.
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Animal remains (Archaeology)
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Antiquities
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Hunting and gathering societies
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Prehistoric peoples
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| SUBJECT |
Middle East -- Antiquities -- Congresses
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Middle East
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| Genre/Form |
Conference papers and proceedings
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Mashkour, M. (Marjan), editor.
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Beech, Mark J., editor
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| LC no. |
2016040915 |
| ISBN |
9781782978459 |
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1782978453 |
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9781782978473 |
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178297847X |
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1782978445 |
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9781782978442 |
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