Dogs and people in social, working, economic or symbolic interaction

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Dogs and people in social, working, economic or symbolic interaction / edited by Lynn M. Snyder and Elizabeth A. Moore.

International Council for Archaeozoology. Conference (9th : 2002 : Durham, England) (Author). Snyder, Lynn M. (Added Author). Moore, Elizabeth A. (Elizabeth Ann), 1962- (Added Author).

Record details

ISBN: 9781842171240 (hbk.)
ISBN: 1842171240 (hbk.)
Physical Description: xi, 146 p. : ill., maps, charts, photo. ; 31 cm.
Publisher: Oxford : Oxbow Books, 2006.

Content descriptions

General Note:: "Proceedings of the 9th conference of the International Council of Archaeozoology, Durham, August 2002" at head of title page.
Bibliography, etc. Note:: Includes bibliographical references.
Formatted Contents Note:: Preface / Umberto Ablarella, Keith Dobney and Peter Rowley-Conwy -- History, ethnography, and archaeology of the coast Salish woolly-dog / Russel L. Barsh, Joan Megan Jones, and Wayne Suttles -- A dwarf hound skeleton from a Romano-British grave at York Road, Leicester, England, U.K., with a discussion of other Roman small dog types and speculation regarding their respective aetiologies / Ian L. Baxter -- Food, rituals? The exploitation of dogs from Eretria (Greece) during the Helladic and Hellenistic periods / Isabelle Chenal-Velarde -- Artemis pit? Dog remains from a well in the ancient town of Siracusa (Sicily) / Salvatore Chilardi -- In sickness and in health : care for an arthritic Maltese dog from the Roman cemetery of Yasmina, Carthage, Tunisia / Michael MacKinnon and Kyle Belanger -- What did the Bronze Age dogs eat? Coprolithic analyses / Liina Maldre -- What do dogs mean? What do dogs do? Symbolism, instrumentality, and ritual in Afro-Cuban religion / Michael Atwood Mason and Lynn M. Snyder -- Dog sacrifice in the ancient world : a ritual passage? / Jacopo De Grossi Mazzorin and Claudia Minniti -- Bronze Age dogs from graves in Borger (Netherlands) and Dimina (Greece) / Wietske Prummel -- An ethnoarcheological study of chase hunting with gundogs by the Aboriginal peoples of Taiwan / Atsushi Nobayashi -- Variability in medieval dogs from Hungary / Marta Daroczi-Szabo -- Companions from the oldest times : dogs in ancient Greek literature, iconography and Osteological testimony / Katerina Trantalidou -- Dog-wolf hybrid biotype reconstruction from the archaeological city of Teotihuacan in prehispanic central Mexico / Raul Valadez ... [et al.] -- The sacrifice of dogs in ancient Italy / Barbara Wilkens -- The evidentiary dog : a review of anthrozoological cases and archaeological studies / Bonnie C. Yates and Janice Koler-Matznick.