Pigs and humans : 10,000 years of interaction
Year: 2007
Type: article
Abstract: Introduction I. EVOLUTION AND TAXONOMY 1. Current views on taxonomy and zoogeography of the genus Sus 2. Current views on Sus phylogeography and pig domestication as seen through modern mtDNA studies 3. The molecular basis for phenotypic changes during pig domestication II. THE HISTORY OF PIG DOMESTICATION AND HUSBANDRY 4. The transition from wild boar to domestic pig in Eurasia, illustrated by a tooth development defect and biometrical data 5. Culture, ecology and pigs from the 5th to the 3rd millennium BC around the Fertile Crescent 6. Hunting or management? The status of Sus in the Jomon Period, Japan 7. Wild boar and domestic pigs in Mesolithic and Neolithic southern Scandinavia 8. The economic role of Sus in early human fishing communities 9. An investigation into the transition from forest dwelling pigs to farm animals in medieval Flanders, Belgium III. METHODOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS 10. Age estimation of wild boar based on molariform mandibular tooth development and its application to seasonality at the Mesolithic site of Ringkloster, Denmark 11. A statistical method for dealing with isolated teeth: ageing pig teeth from Hagoshrim, Israel 12. Inter-population variation in recent wild boar from Israel 13. A dental microwear study of pig diet and management in Iron Age, Romano-British, Anglo-Scandinavian and medieval contexts in England 14. The histopathology of fluorotic dental enamel in wild boar and domestic pigs 15. Economic and ecological reconstruction at the Classical site of Sagalassos, Turkey, using pigs' teeth IV. ETHNOGRAPHIC STUDIES 16. Ethnoarchaeology of pig husbandry in Sardinia and Corsica 17. Traditional pig butchery by the Yali people of West Papua (Irian Jaya): an ethnographic and archaeozoological example 18. Pigs in the New Guinea Highlands: an ethnographic example V. PIGS IN RITUAL AND ART 19. Wild boar hunting in the Eastern Mediterranean from the 2nd to the 1st millennium BC 20. The pig in medieval iconography
Author: Umberto Albarella
Language: English
Subfield: Archeology
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
SDG: Zero hunger
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W616668142