The Origins and Development of African Livestock (eBook, PDF)

Archaeology, Genetics, Linguistics and Ethnography
Redaktion: Blench, Roger; Macdonald, Kevin

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This book presents an interdisciplinary overview of the origins of African livestock, placing Africa as one of the world centres for animal domestication. With sections on archaeology, genetics, linguistics and ethnography, this collection contains over twenty contributions from the field's foremost experts and provides fully illustrated, never before published data, and extensive bibliographies.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 568
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Januar 2006
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781135434168
• Artikelnr.: 40827087

Autorenporträt

Roger Blench, Kevin MacDonald

Inhaltsangabe

1: Introduction
1: The origins of African livestock: indigenous or imported?
2: A survey of ethnographic and linguistic evidence for the history of livestock in Africa
2: Archaeology
3: Cattle, sheep, and goats south of the Sahara: an archaeozoological perspective
4: Bos africanus (Brehm)? Notes on the archaeozoology of the native cattle of Africa
5: Climate and cattle in North Africa: a first approximation
6: Livestock in Saharan Rock Art
7: African livestock remains from Saharan mortuary contexts
8: The origins and development of domesticated animals in arid West Africa
9: Domestic animals from archaeological sites in Central and west-central Africa
10: The origins and spread of domestic animals in East Africa
11: The origins of the domesticated animals of southern Africa
3: Genetics and Breed Characterization
12: Genetics and the origins of African cattle
13: Two Eves for taurusl Bovine mitochondrial DNA and African cattle domestication
14: Molecular genetic analysis of African zeboid populations
15: Characterization of the Kuri cattle of Lake Chad using molecular genetic techniques
16: Characterizations of African cattle, sheep and goats and their contributions to archaeological understanding
17: The characterization of indigenous goat types of Ethiopia and Eritrea
18: Using morphobiometric indices to map goat resources in Africa
19: Indigenous domesticated dogs of southern Africa: an introduction
4: Linguistics and Ethnography
20: African minor livestock species
21: A history of donkeys, wild asses and mules in Africa
22: A history of pigs in Africa
23: Did chickens go west?
24: Linguistic evidence for the prehistory of livestock in Sudan
25: Ethnographic perspectives on cattle management in semi-arid environments: a case study from Maasailand
26: The history of working animals in Africa
27: Bees and bee-keeping in Africa