Archaeozoology of Southwest Asia and Adjacent Areas XIII: Proceedings of the Thirteenth International Symposium, University of Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus, June 7–10, 2017
Synopsis
Due to their location at the meeting point of the three Old World’s continents—Africa, Asia, and Europe—Southwest Asia and its adjacent areas played a pivotal role in the history of humanity. They received successive waves of our species—Homo sapiens—out of Africa. Different processes in several areas of this large region brought about the transition to the Neolithic, and later on the urban revolution, the emergence of empires bringing with them important subsequent religious, cultural, social, and political consequences. Southwest Asia also played a major role in the interactions between East (Asia) and West (Europe) during the last two millennia. The unique importance of Southwest Asia in the history of humanity is strengthened by the, also related to its location, fact that this area is a hotspot of biodiversity, especially in mammals, which were—as everywhere in the world—tightly associated to the history of civilizations in a diversity of roles: game, providers of meat and milk, traded raw material, symbol of prestige and wealth, pets, etc.
Chapters
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Front Matter
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Assessing Changes in Animal Mobility and Activity Patterns During Early Stages of Domestication and Husbandry of CapraTell Halula as a Case Study (Euphrates Valley, Syria)
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Pigs in BetweenPig Husbandry in the Late Neolithic in Northern Mesopotamia
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Stable Isotope Evidence for Animal Husbandry Practices at Prehistoric Monjukli Depe, Southern Turkmenistan
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The Butchered Faunal Remains from Nahal Tillah, an Early Bronze Age I Egypto-Levantine Settlement in the Southern Levant
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Sweating the Small StuffMicrodebris Analysis at Tell eṣ-Ṣâfi/Gath, Israel
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Bad Contexts, Nice Bones — and Vice Versa?
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Animal Exploitation and Community Behavior at a Middle Bronze Age Village on Cyprus
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Old Dentitions and Young Post-craniaSheep Burials in the Ptolemaic–Early Roman Animal Necropolis at Syene/Upper Egypt
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Osseous Artifacts from the Late Iron Age Site of Kale–Krševica (Southern Serbia)Seasons 2013–2016
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Exploring Ubaid-Period Agriculture in Northern MesopotamiaThe Fifth-Millennium BC Animal Remains from Tell Ziyadeh, Syria
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Animal Bones from the 2009–2012 Excavations at the Early Bronze Age Site of Shengavit, Yerevan, ArmeniaA First Look
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Animal Economy at Karkemish from the Late Bronze to the Iron AgeA Preliminary Assessment
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The Subsistence Economy of a Highland Settlement in the Zagros during the Bronze and Iron AgesThe Case of Gūnespān (Hamadan, Iran)
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Animal Exploitation in the Samarkand Oasis (Uzbekistan) at the Time of the Arab ConquestZooarchaeological Evidence from the Excavations at Kafir Kala
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Emerging BeesIdentification and Possible Meanings of Insect Figures at Göbekli Tepe
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The Cult of Horus and ThothA Study of Egyptian Animal Cults in Theban Tombs 11, 12, and –399–
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Animals and CeremoniesNew Results from Iron Age Husn Salut (Sultanate of Oman)
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Ornithological Interpretation of the Sixth-Century AD Byzantine Mosaics from Tall Bī‛a, Syria
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