Alan K. Outram, Amy Bogaard

Subsistence and Society in Prehistory

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Using globally diverse examples, this book examines how to integrate new biomolecular and microscopic techniques with long-established forms of archaeobotanical and zooarchaeological data to reconstruct prehistoric diet and subsistence in different environments leading to a comprehensive picture of the tapestry of past human cultural variation.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 292
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Oktober 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 579g
• ISBN-13: 9781107128774
• ISBN-10: 1107128773
• Artikelnr.: 56728855

Autorenporträt

Alan K. Outram is Professor of Archaeological Science at the University of Exeter. A zooarchaeologist who specialises in the domestication of the horse, he has conducted extensive archaeological fieldwork in Europe, Central Asia, and North America. The former editor of World Archaeology and current editor of Science and Technology of Archaeological Research, he has published several ground breaking publications in Science and Nature.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction
2. Is determinism dead?
3. Incorporating new methods I: the stable isotope revolution
4. Incorporating new methods II: residue chemistry
5. Incorporating new methods III: answering palaeoeconomic questions with molecular genetics
6. Incorporating new methods IV: phytoliths and starch grains in the tropics and beyond
7. Integrated case study I: early farming in Central Europe
8. Integrated case study II: horse domestication and the origins of pastoralism in Central Asia
9. Conclusion.